Living and paying taxes in California is expensive. If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it might just be that it ...
An extraordinary and influential California Supreme Court staff attorney
By Jake Dear
A Brooklyn native who was raised in Queens and had attended college and law school on the east coast, Hal had no inkling that ...
Technology, Law Practice
Importance of the Turing Test for AI and the law
By Lance Eliot
Efforts to achieve artificial intelligence that can perform legal reasoning ostensibly on par with human attorneys are ongoing...
Amazon marketplace sellers battle counterfeit goods (and Amazon)
For helping women veterans heal, she was called a ‘feminazi’
Data Privacy
US surveillance law in the wake of the Schrems II ruling
By Andrew Serwin, Hayley Curry
The Schrems II decision is the most significant event in the history of trans-Atlantic data flows. It results from a long-runn...
Data Privacy
CCPA 2.0: Voters approve more privacy measures
By Edward S. Chang, John A. Vogt
For the past two years, many companies doing business in California have worked overtime to comply with the California Consume...
Data Privacy
An early review of litigation trends under the CCPA
By Mark David McPherson, Purvi G. Patel
It is no surprise that consumers have already filed many lawsuits seeking statutory damages under the CCPA — and that almost a...
U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Rights
FCA update: Will the Supreme Court address materiality (again)?
By Jim Zelenay Jr., Jeremy S. Smith
Writing for a unanimous Supreme Court, Justice Clarence Thomas explained that the False Claims Act’s “materiality requirement”...
Environmental & Energy
Suits strongly argue NEPA final rule is ‘not in accordance with law’
By John H. Minan
The National Environmental Protection Act has been called the “Magna Carta of environmental laws” for good reason. Its twin ai...
There comes a time when it’s time to rethink old things. The institution of the grand jury has been around for a long time, si...
Labor/Employment
Proposition 22 money may have simply bought (expensive) time
By Ronald L. Zambrano
You can buy a lot with $200 million. The most expensive ballot proposition in California’s history delivered almost exactly wh...
Appellate Practice, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
‘Healthy lawyerly paranoia’: federal appeal deadlines
By Jeffrey E. Raskin
A common dilemma faces counsel regarding the timing of an appeal of a partially adverse merits judgment while an attorney fees...
Law Practice
An interview with: Protima Pandey of Santa Clara County
By Mallika Kaur, Protima Pandey
Next in the Negotiating Trauma & the Law series, Protima Pandey speaks about why her experiences across nonprofit, public,...
During the 2016 presidential campaign, there was plenty of talk about estate taxes — death taxes to use a common pejorative te...
Military Law, Criminal
Accountability for sexual assault in the military: Time for reform
By Michael E. Rubinstein
Consider the following hypothetical: A successful, charismatic businessman attends an out-of-town conference with his female a...
Data Privacy, Civil Litigation
Here comes a wave of data privacy litigation
By Gary S. Lincenberg, Steven Zipperstein
Data privacy law is quickly becoming the hottest legal issue of the 2020s. Over the previous decade — amid the rapid growth of...
Military Law
Reconciling veteran law’s insanity exception with the insanity defense
By Charles Kohorst, Ariana Barlas
Every person who served in the United States' armed forces is not a "veteran," under the law. Instead, Congress gave the Depar...
Letters, Criminal
Domestic violence columnist should look to San Diego
By Eugene M. Hyman
In an Oct. 26 column “A dangerous policy of inaction in domestic violence cases,” Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney ...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
High court to rule whether bullets always qualify as a seizure
By Brian Hoffman, J. Scott Tiedemann
The Fourth Amendment protects individuals against unreasonable searches and seizures, including the excessive use of force by ...
Technology, Law Practice
Artificial intelligence may spur a need for more lawyers
By Lance Eliot
A recent research study carefully examined the growth in the laws over a 25-year period. This alone provides important and fas...
Law Practice
#FreeBritney movement calls for conservatorship reforms
By Thomas F. Coleman
Since 2008 when she was involuntarily placed into a probate conservatorship in California, she has not been able to control he...
Tax, Labor/Employment, Covid Columns
Remote workers and out-of-state employers raise tax issues
By Suzanne Mulvihill
As more and more workers are required or encouraged to work from home in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the consideration ...
Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation
Induced infringement ruling could have far-reaching effects
By Daniel Knauss, Alissa Wood
A recent Federal Circuit ruling has potentially far-reaching impacts in cases involving allegations of induced infringement.
Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
When an attorney is sick, who and when must they tell?
By Shari L. Klevens, Alanna G. Clair
With flu season approaching and the COVID-19 pandemic enduring, there is extreme concern about the possibility of getting sick...
The latest instance involves Goldman Sachs, which is paying about $2.9 billion to settle its role in the 1MDB scandal.
Constitutional Law
This land is your land, but Malibu won’t let you tell anyone
By Christopher M. Kieser
Whether you live in a city, a suburb, or out in the country, you have probably seen a “private property” or “no trespassing” s...
Construction, Appellate Practice
Appellate ruling confirms duty to defend is immediate
By Garret D. Murai
A recent decision confirms that the duty to defend is immediate and, as can be surmised from the Crawford decision although it...
The Double-O designation gives Bond a license to kill, but when lawyers misuse it, they’re merely abusing their license to ill.
Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary
Commission on Judicial Performance adopts amended rules
By Kathleen Ewins, David McMonigle
This year, the commission considered amendments to six rules — Rule 115 (Notice of Tentative Public Admonishment); Rule 116 (P...