For most of the last two decades, I have been a member of the Honorable William A. Ingram American Inn of Court, in San Jose. ...

Executive Order N-62-20 establishes a rebuttable presumption, for purposes of awarding workers’ compensation benefits, that em...

Many persons outside the residential housing industry may not be aware that parties to an unlawful detainer proceeding are sta...

Desperate times call for clever solutions. I’ve been rounding up stories about the many innovative ways in which lawyers and m...

In San Diego, lawyers have stepped up to the challenge by creating innovative ways to keep everyone safe while practicing soci...

The 9th Circuit decided a case on May 22 in which it firmly rejected First Amendment arguments which contested the application...

One of the most frequent types of health care arbitrations is that between a provider of health care services (e.g., physician...

Our closets, garages, file cabinets and food pantries have never looked better during the lockdown. But, as we prepare for lif...

On Tuesday, the 9th Circuit held in two separate opinions that lawsuits for damages to infrastructure caused by energy compani...

Courts recognize the unequal bargaining power in deciding whether a prosecutor has breached a plea agreement. As with any one-...

The hearsay rule traces back 500 years, and its ascension to a uniform principle occurred in the 1800s. How is it that 120 or ...

I am writing in response to the Daily Journal’s article May 26 article, “Bill aims to curb some juror challenges.” While the a...

This Sunday, just as the disciples were “together in one place,” a number of churches throughout the state are planning to mar...

This column is concerned with one specific kind of guarantee and one specific type of relief: Are these orders valid under the...

It goes without saying that COVID-19 has disrupted all facets of daily life. As any practicing attorney knows, the effect on t...

The extraordinary events of the last few months have affected millions of lives and the one thing that can restore more certai...

As employers today navigate complex issues that they had never imagined, there are more than a few myths circulating about the...

Previous articles indicate that if COVID-19 is a force majeure event, it is one like no other ever litigated: a worldwide pand...

This article discusses additional considerations related to COVID-19’s impact on credit agreements.

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the 2nd Circuit’s application of res judicata to bar Lucky Brand’s asse...

The back log of family law cases in the superior court is severe, estimated at 32,000. Unfortunately, in many of these cases, ...

Last week, the 9th Circuit issued its decision in one of the biggest legal cases in the National Collegiate Athletic Associati...

The Supreme Court's latest Clean Water Act decision does not provide a clear answer for when discharges through groundwater re...

As someone who has written law review articles and drafted opinions for the California Supreme Court, I appreciated Justice Mi...

With the COVID-19 shutdowns resulting in millions of job layoffs, small business owners scrambled to apply for Paycheck Protec...

By confirming a property interest in employment and fraud as a basis of a public policy claim (albeit in the context of Penal ...

Legal fictions are problematic because we’re in the truth-finding business. These fictions are dangerous for judges, because ...

This is the fourth installment for the Daily Journal (following reviews of Louis Nizer’s The Jury Returns, John Kaplan’s and J...

As luck would have it, an urgent client matter required that I make an ex parte appearance at Stanley Mosk in the second week ...

As lawyers, we are trained to examine facts, uncertainty is unsettling. We are goal oriented, so future ambiguity is disturbin...