The EPA has adopted new final regulations to redefine the term “waters of the United States.”

Americans, especially Californians, celebrate meritocracy, the idea that what what we do matters more than where we are from. ...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a petition for writ of certiorari to review a decision on the constitutiona...

In Civil Procedure, I assign students to visit court, watch any civil dispute, and write up their observations, because the co...

At the end of each year, for the past seven years, I have counted the number and type of motions that were decided in Departme...

The plaintiffs should have the opportunity to argue this “discoverable and manageable” benchmark at trial.

While heated debate continues over whether the new law will help tackle the state's affordability crisis, every owner and deve...

I hate word games. One that has haunted the land use field for years is the use (or abuse) of the word “dedication.” Land use ...

Rent control may well limit rent increases on current occupied units and enable existing tenants to remain in their units long...

2019 was notable for the number of white-collar criminal matters that broke into the public consciousness, whether it was the ...

In an ongoing effort to increase cooperation and meet the changing face of litigation, members of the California Legislature h...

California’s environmentalists and renewable energy advocates have been working passionately, but mostly separately, for many ...

In my 35 years as writ attorney for Division 7 of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, I saw a range of writ petitions, from outs...

In this article and accompanying self-study test, readers will learn about the procedures for conducting discovery in eminent ...

In the almost two decades since 9/11, our nation has slowly started to restore the balance among the three branches of governm...

Workplace investigations are a fact of life for employers everywhere, but especially in California. Requirements that particip...

On Jan. 20, the 9th Circuit found that a “substantial evidentiary record [that] documents that the federal government has long...

A good place to start trying to effect change is in our own profession. Because we lawyers love our pretentious Latin phrases,...

Initial public offerings are generally viewed as the option of choice for companies who have reached a critical juncture in th...

California and social media platforms take aim at deepfakes while federal lawmakers take a 'studied' approach.

In a word, these dilettantes that have nothing better to do with their time than attack horseracing will go to their graves in...

Under U.S. Supreme Court precedent known as the “Feres doctrine,” active members of the military, along with their heirs, are ...

As was publicized recently in the press, a slimmer, weakened appearing, and clean-shaven Harvey Weinstein showed up at a court...

Don’t let your writing be false, late, noncompliant, unsupported, unpersuasive, unfocused or boring.

We counsel our law firm clients to be at least as diligent about planning ahead for their own practices as they would suggest ...

In the decision of In re PW, LLC, the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the 9th Circuit held that the protections provided to a b...

Regardless of the fate of any legislative initiatives, it’s clear that the industry will have to change — and soon. As people ...

For decades, the trucking industry has used owner-operators to provide the transportation of property in interstate commerce. ...

Today, we turn our attention to the sixth in our series of data-driven profiles of the justices of the California Supreme Cour...

In 2018, the California Senate Bill 54, aka the California Values Act and more commonly known as the “sanctuary city law,” bec...