While Senate Bill 188 specifically contemplated hair textures and hair styles associated with African-Americans, employers sho...

Thanks to the internet, prospective litigants now have the additional option of “opting out” of dispute resolution by jury tri...

In enacting Assembly Bill 218, the California Legislature finally recognized what survivors of childhood sexual abuse suffer t...

The new law is the first of its kind and will attempt to establish cybersecurity standards for connected devices where none ha...

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the federal Fair Housing Act with the goal to “guarantee a basic American ...

California’s pension plans are dangerously underfunded, the result of overly generous benefit promises, wishful thinking and a...

Like a suitcase you had forgotten you had that falls from the top of a closet and hits you in the head, we have now become sud...

The cases before the U.S. Supreme Court on subpoenas for President Donald Trump’s financial records should be easily resolved ...

On Dec. 6, a coalition of business trade associations filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief in the Eastern D...

Being a crime victim is traumatic. As a result, it is not surprising that most crime victims are dismayed to hear that a defen...

I am compelled to say that to be shy is not to be rude. The traits are mistaken for one another.

IRS Forms 1099 match income and Social Security numbers. Most people pay attention to these forms at tax time, but lawyers and...

In my last column I endorsed Judge Curtis A. Karnow’s view that law professors are “disconnected” from the real world of law p...

Even close clock watchers may not have noticed that the giant clock atop the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles i...

Startups are confronted with business and legal challenges from the day they are born, often exacerbated by the lack of a lega...

On Dec. 5 the House passed a bipartisan bill that for the first time expressly prohibits illegal insider trading. The Insider ...

Most Americans don’t enjoy filing or paying, but they do it anyway, and they pay up. If they can’t pay, they get in line and s...

The floodgates protecting truly professional conduct of the legal profession were opened on June 27, 1977, the day the U.S. Su...

When our polarized citizenry and courts cannot agree on common facts or law, it may be surprising to hear that Rule 1 of the F...

Regardless of the approach, it is important for the schools and the interested students to have a clear understanding of what ...

This is the third installment for the Daily Journal of histories for trial lawyers. Today’s subject is Edward Williams. When W...

The driver for these draft international standards is two recent catastrophic failures of tailings storage facilities in Brazi...

It has been almost a year since Senate Bill 1421, California’s amendments to Penal Code Sections 832.7 and 832.8, went into ef...

Now’s the time to think hard about tax deferrals. Should investors use Internal Revenue Code Section 1031, which allows deferr...

The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether claims of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. Section 1981 fail in the absence of b...

In October 2017, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 235, which amended Elections Code Section 13107 to call for the ...

We need stronger federal and state paid family leave laws. In the meantime, however, it is in the best interest of private sec...

As 2019 draws to a close, local agencies in 21 groundwater basins throughout the state are preparing to submit the first Groun...

The California Supreme Court recently decided not to depublish a 2nd District opinion that misstates the law in a manner harmf...

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the wave of litigation that was expected to follow enactment of California’s Senate Bill ...