Liu v. SEC is likely only the beginning of the SEC’s challenges on this front, as it leaves unanswered thorny questions about ...

For practitioners, these changes are worthy of discussion, lest you or your client find yourself on the receiving end of a dem...

Recent developments and strategic implications.

The “Noerr-Pennington doctrine” says you can’t be held liable under the antitrust laws for asking the government to do someth...

The Northern District of California has been a primary location for government antitrust investigations and civil lawsuits inv...

Marijuana, the IRS and taxes have a difficult relationship. In a recent 9th Circuit ruling, the unhappy story starts with a re...

A wave of bankruptcies is likely due to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the economy and the unemployment rate. For someon...

Has the long but regrettable decline in civility among lawyers now expanded to incivility toward the courts? Demands for judic...

In a Daily Journal story on June 19 titled “Access advocates pressure court to end closed proceedings,” the newspaper grossly ...

A society’s budget reveals its moral values, and by that metric, 21st century America barely hovers above bankruptcy. Our budg...

The Death Penalty Clinic at Berkeley Law released a study last week that concludes that "racial discrimination is an ever-pres...

While Twitter, like other interactive computer service providers, enjoys protection under the Communications Decency Act from ...

There was no plethora of opinions in Bostock, only three — the 33-page majority opinion for the court by Justice Neil Gorsuch,...

Senate Bill 616, which goes into full effect on Sept. 1, 2020, has many purposes, chief among them the creation of an automati...

One of the most difficult areas of law to learn and apply is the hearsay rule. Appellate lawyers, and even learned appellate j...

The Families First Coronavirus Act requires certain employers to provide employees with Emergency Paid Sick Leave or Expanded ...

It is inevitable that the ongoing global pandemic will continue to affect nearly all facets of social and business life across...

The Payroll Protection Program, or PPP, has been one of the things holding many small businesses together. Now that loan forgi...

President Trump’s attempt to enjoin the release of John Bolton’s book faces a number of legal and constitutional roadblocks.

It is the rare attorney who will never have a fee dispute. A recent case emphasizes the importance of keeping accurate and con...

July bar applicants may now have to wait until October to take the California bar exam according to the California Supreme Cou...

Before heading to mediation, try ENE.

Mediation is often viewed by lawyers as a “this” or “that” on the spectrum from facilitative to evaluative. In reality, experi...

Recognizing the need for civil litigants to have a venue to resolve disputes outside the court, members of that task force, re...

A conversation with a civil rights attorney about how she navigated intersecting traumas and gifts of growing up in Berkeley a...

Assembly Bill 2501 must pass off of the assembly floor by Friday. If passed, the bill will put in place certain loan forbearan...

The complaint alleges that although Google tells users that it’s Incognito mode allows them to “browse privately,” Google is a...

The Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton Country, Georgia, handed down on Monday, is a thrilling victory for propone...

Many argue that the defense of qualified immunity protects the police more than the Civil Rights Act protects its citizens.