The California State Bar’s plans for the upcoming October bar exam rely on a dubious, unprecedented version of the multi-state...

In addition to the devastating human toll resulting from COVID-19, the pandemic has had an impact on the economy now and likel...

The California Supreme Court should adopt an emergency diploma privilege. It is the equitable, fair, and compassionate solutio...

This is a good time to re-read — or for some to pick up for the first time — materials on implicit bias, and in particular how...

The California Supreme Court recently answered questions of how California labor laws apply to employees who perform work insi...

The asylum system is under attack. Over the past few years, we have seen policy after policy, fueled by racism and xenophobia,...

In all criminal cases, the accused is presumed innocent. This means that a jury must not presume that person accused of violat...

Governor Newsom and other California officials have used the virus as an excuse to create a Sacramento-based medical welfare s...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently denied petitions for certiorari from U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decisions a...

The stakes in Henry Schein II are much larger than the narrow conflict among the circuits regarding delegation of “gateway” is...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent opinion comes as no surprise to veteran trademark practitioners, not only for its holding, but...

During this pandemic, the class of 2020 law graduates moved to online instruction mid semester. Many did not have a chance to ...

As part of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017, Congress restricted Code Section 1031 Exchanges to only real property — a term th...

For nine years, I ran over to the local Veterans Treatment Court, VTC, on Tuesday afternoons to act as a mentor, primarily to ...

California cities have, in the past few months, accelerated a trend that has been developing for a few years: they are passing...

On June 22, the White House issued a new presidential proclamation to suspend the entry of new H-1B, L-1, certain J-1 and othe...

From its inception this column has drawn inspiration from the Oliver Wendell Holmes quote, “The young man knows the rules but ...

More than a year and a half ago, President Donald Trump, unwilling to accept Congress' repeated explicit refusals to fund a wa...

It’s all different. More so than any of us can remember. Lesson we all know, but many have stored in the back of a mental clos...

Turow in winter, or at least thinking about winter, that crawling towards death, as Lear puts it. That would be Scott Turow, t...

Reading is just about the worst way to present an oral argument — and presenting oral arguments remotely doesn’t change that.

On June 25, the California Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion allowing a district attorney to seek recovery for violatio...

Public defender offices are proud of the essential role we play in the justice system. We are grateful for the daily opportuni...

In 2003, the California Supreme Court held that all security personnel — including school security, school police, school reso...

To combat the risk posed by deepfakes, California enacted two new laws, which went into effect at the beginning of 2020.

Two bills currently before the California Legislature are seemingly moving quite easily through the Assembly and Senate but ar...

On June 24, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (20-5143) granted Michael Flynn an emergency writ of mandamus to di...

In his majority opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County, Justice Gorsuch provided a helpful explanation of intent in employment d...

Jacob Bronowski, British Mathematician and historian said: “It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot...

A Court of Appeal ruling recently added to the growing number of California state and federal courts holding that the websites...