Since the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States, Congress has enacted several legislative packages aimed at providing fin...

Due to the pandemic, I recently spent time in the brave new world of online depositions. The depositions involved participants...

Today’s COVID-19 pandemic is a reminder that every person is vulnerable to disease, instability, unavailability and loss. Its ...

Sometimes it takes a crisis to reimagine what might be.

As a law professor, I make a mistake again and again. I have been working to avoid it, but I also realize everyone else commit...

Courthouses are closed. Los Angeles is under a stay-at-home order at least until May 15. While deadlines have been extended, c...

It would be an understatement to say that law firm life has experienced a significant disruption as a result of COVID-19. It’s...

Although a lot of ink has been spilled about the federal Paycheck Protection Program — the Small Business Administration-backe...

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the closure of courtrooms across the country. The courts that are open for limited busin...

In a sweeping majority opinion, Justice Neil Gorsuch establishes a “but-for” causation standard for pleading 42 U.S.C. Section...

With the COVID-19 wreaking havoc on California’s economy, many of the adversely affected businesses increasingly find themselv...

For over 75 years, California employers have been vexed by the prolix requirements for the statements accompanying paychecks s...

Yet another constitutional showdown, this time President Donald Trump versus governors over the reopening of America.

Earlier this month, the California Court of Appeal issued its first published decision addressing unlimited vacation time poli...

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered all of our lives both in and out of the courthouse. Legal offices are largely s...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the global economy. Companies in the midst of M&A transactions wh...

Advocates characterize diploma privilege as a reasonable defense of students who navigate strained finances, immigration strug...

Wednesday is the half century anniversary of the environmental movement.

The appointment of a guardian ad litem in civil litigation is usually done under the radar and therefore avoids public scrutin...

Quarantines, business shutdown orders, and stay-at-home orders may be effective weapons in the global fight against COVID-19, ...

The California Supreme Court, for the first time in more than two decades, recently waded into the murky inverse condemnation ...

I hear the clamor at the courthouse doors: “I need this pandemic thing to end, at least in so far as it interferes with my lit...

I have been an arbitrator for 18 years (and was a sitting judge before that). It has been my experience that attorneys, even t...

The biggest media trend of the last decade was the widespread adoption of over-the-top, or OTT, streaming services such as Net...

University of Southern California and the Office of Civil Rights recently entered into a resolution agreement putting a (tenta...

Law professors have the habit of making three points.

Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” meaning that o...

Picking up where we left off last column, the conversation continues between the old-timer (me) and my young associate (“YA”) ...

When disasters occur, this means challenging decisions have to be made. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic dedicated health ...