The COVID-19 pandemic and the recent civil unrest are having a disproportionate effect on people in California's low-income co...

This is a story about railroads, property owners and government litigation strategy.

What exactly is qualified immunity? Why does it exist? How is it applied?

As Congress gets ready to consider revisions to the 1998 landmark Digital Millennium Copyright Act, online service providers a...

What is the meaning and intent of the term “willful” under Business and Professions Code Section 7110 — and does a violation o...

Police procedurals have made the Miranda warnings so well-known that most Americans can recite them by rote. But there is a lo...

While voting by mail has become a political flashpoint, with President Donald J. Trump and Attorney General William Barr invei...

It is not surprising that trust and estate disputes continue to increase. The number of people entering retirement age is incr...

In a bid to protect countless employees laid-off and furloughed during the COVID-19 pandemic as business begin to re-open, San...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s long-awaited decision last week rejecting the Trump administration’s attempt to rescind Deferred Acti...

Claims of domestic violence have been on the upswing during the pandemic; catch up with recent statutory changes affecting the...

The 4th Amendment to the Constitution was drafted to protect us against unreasonable searches and seizures. Essentially, this ...

Recent actions by the Antitrust Division reflect a greater interest in moderating antitrust policies in consideration of natio...

Trump’s private unrecorded meetings with President Vladimir Putin of Russia have not yet been revealed, and many citizens are ...

In December 2019, as preparations were underway for the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell an...

Immunity under Section 230 is the reason why Twitter was able to successfully dismiss California Republican Rep. Devin Nunes’ ...

International treaties and conventions are often strictly construed by U.S. courts without regard to common law principles. Tw...

While AB 3070 has nothing to do with access to health care or economic relief, it has everything to do with addressing the end...

A U.S. Supreme Court decision last week was a major — if temporary — victory in the ongoing fight to protect the rights of you...

I am writing in regard to the column by Deputy District Attorney Michele Hanisee attacking both Berkeley Law’s landmark report...

If our legal system is to be preserved, the problem of racial bias must be meaningfully addressed. Because the underrepresenta...

Since the California Consumer Privacy Act went into effect on Jan. 1, many businesses have been eager to receive the promised ...

We’ve seen it again and again across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic: State lawmakers adopting emergency rules that s...

The legal complications caused by COVID-19 have raised some novel legal issues, but there are no special COVID-19 ethics rules...

As a mediator, I listen to all sides and hear how each perceives the other. With this insight, I help parties collaborate and ...

Despite a win in the recent DACA case, rules proposed by the Department of Homeland Security and an executive order by Trump i...

Because current patent laws do not allow artificial inventors, we address two questions: (1) What can we do right now if a dev...

It’s been about 100 days since California issued its COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. For my own solo family law practice, and fr...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a disruptive force leading us to contemplate different ways of doing things. One outgrowth of this ma...

Dropping arguments against retroactivity of judicial decisions is an easy (and morally correct) way for the attorney general t...