The 9th Circuit has entered a new era of judicial positioning and politicization illustrated by its recent decisions and opini...

While many a trial attorney may be of the opinion that jurors make up their minds during opening statements, I disagree.

Practitioners who are familiar with the onerous rule that has barred injured plaintiffs from recovering for their foul ball in...

There is an enormous gap between the need for civil legal services and most people’s ability to access legal help. More than h...

Attorneys generally may not directly solicit potential clients to provide legal help. This prohibition is meant to alleviate t...

Having spent the last 45 years participating in the Los Angeles criminal justice system from all angles (prosecutor, defense a...

State courts shouldn’t ask counsel to appear to report on removed cases

The new lower PFAS levels will result in many more public water systems with wells exceeding the new response levels, and more...

You hear it all the time: “She’s a gold digger.” “He’s a scrub.” “They’re just living off the child support to fund his/her li...

The California Supreme Court’s ruling in Kim v. Reins won’t “stop” anything.

All plaintiffs collecting money care about taxes, and the tax treatment of litigation damages is varied and complex. But the r...

The California Supreme Court is expected to decide whether state laws governing wage statements and minimum wage apply to empl...

This is the rare antitrust case that can be reduced to a credibility contest between testifying witnesses or decided correctly...

California law has long dictated that intentional tortfeasors cannot shift their liability to a merely negligent actor. A pend...

A recent appellate ruling held that under the Ralph M. Brown Act a should include a contemporaneous record reflecting a threat...

There are exceptions to the principle that inaccurate information in an application automatically gives the insurer an absolut...

When employees are involved in romantic relationships with each other, it can bring a whole host of potential problems that ne...

Rule number one for property owners and their counsel in physical takings cases is that the one thing you do not want to hear ...

The Protecting the Right to Organize Act, recently passed by the house, would be a major overhaul of the National Labor Relati...

While many insurers doing business in California will fall within the scope of the law, it is also true that in many cases muc...

Earlier this month, the California Attorney General moved one step closer to implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act ...

Opati v. Republic of Sudan focuses on whether Congress intended for a statute authorizing punitive damages against state spons...

The federal government will defend the constitutionality of a law that prohibits “encouraging” or “inducing” undocumented nonc...

Any allegation of professional misconduct by the State Bar prosecutor’s office is cause for serious concern for an attorney. B...

The FCA has long served as the federal government's primary mechanism for rooting out fraud and corruption by companies doing ...

In recent years, state regulators and private plaintiffs have attempted to circumvent and undermine a regime of legal certaint...

In addition to the budget itself, employers should be aware of other pro-employee provisions the governor seeks to effectuate ...

To help ensure increased biosimilar licensing and consumer and healthcare provider awareness of the benefits of biosimilars, t...

Lawyering is hardly as dramatic, but the movie ‘Man on Wire’ offers an analogy to the tightrope a lawyer must walk when presen...

A travel ban case is back at the U.S. Supreme Court, but this case has nothing to do with immigration. This case is a dispute ...