Wells Fargo’s problems may not be over. Last month, the Democratic staff of the Committee on Financial Services for the U.S. H...

Uber and Lyft continue to mumble to themselves like sleepwalkers that drivers are independent contractors. Uber claims, and an...

Awaiting oral argument scheduling in one of my cases, I wondered how the Court of Appeal was going to deal with the COVID-19 c...

The object of this article and accompanying self-study test is to familiarize readers with gang crimes, including the offense ...

The 9th Circuit recently found jurisdiction over a non-tribal member under both prongs of Montana v. U.S.

Size does matter, but not in the way you might think.

You don’t need this column to tell you that the past couple months have been exceedingly exceptional. February had 29 days, Ma...

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...