We’ve made another circuit around the sun and now’s the time of year for gift-giving. Our tradition at Exceptionally Appealing...

While cyber insurance is specifically designed to address these kind of losses, insureds covered under traditional insurance p...

This, my December column occurs in the month when many readers may be vacationing, a perfect time to let it all “hang out” and...

A few months back, Judge Curtis Karnow opined that law school professors are “disconnected” from the real world of law practic...

Although the New York challenge could yield a landmark decision, it could also leave big questions under-resolved. The court c...

Professional listservs for attorneys often provide a fertile ground for seeds of hypertension for risk managers and legal ethi...

Like many teachers, I regularly tell my students there are no “stupid” questions; yet like many of my peers, I am not always s...

In a nutshell, if you like living in the 21st century, watch your back. There is a movement afoot to reverse the steady march ...

The Founders understood bribery as dealing with the abuse of official power to secure a personal benefit. Because no federal c...

I haven’t had occasion to discuss the new Small Business Chapter 11 with a potential client so far. I’ve read several summarie...

Judge Lawrence Riff of the Los Angeles County Superior Court’s Family Law Division Baumbach got a lot right but a few things w...

Lawyers as a profession take unfair heat in many instances, but not in other examples. One of the areas where they are portray...

It was reported some years ago that, when they entered office, the Secret Service took away then-President Barack Obama’s Blac...

Historically, the market viewed secondary transactions as a sign of distress where sellers were pressured for liquidity and fo...

It was a Thursday night, on an otherwise uneventful news day with only presidential impeachment hearings as a backdrop, when n...

Five years ago, the IRS announced that bitcoin and other cryptocurrency was property. More recently, the IRS addressed hard fo...

John Steinbeck is an American literary icon, and the recipient of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and...

The professional and ethical obligations which arise from attorneys use of online profiles is the subject of the recently publ...

In a move of critical importance, the California Legislature has acknowledged this reality by passing three new laws at the in...

California Assembly Bill 957 has amended language in Health and Safety Code Section 17980.7 changing the pre-litigation notice...

As a law professor, my favorite doctrines to teach are those that are most confusing and demanding because they allow for disc...

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted previously proposed Rule 163B under the Securities Act of 1933, as ame...

Drafting an employment arbitration agreement that complies with California law has never been a simple task: Assembly Bill 51,...

The prevailing model in California is caucus-based, but there is another model gaining popularity called the “understanding mo...

When a woman takes paid leave she will lose on average 8% of her wages annually over the next 10 years compared to her counter...

Now that mediation has been broadly accepted and practiced for more than 25 years, there are present trends that may be cause ...

Long before he became president, Donald Trump was known as an aggressive taxpayer who pushed the envelope. In that sense, his ...

In the Nov. 14 Daily Journal article, “Critics leery Gascon could import SF ideas to sprawling LA,” Los Angeles County distric...

The Dorman decision comes at a time when plan sponsors are unhappy about the spate of ERISA class actions that they believe ar...