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One take on the current race to be the next district attorney of Los Angeles County.

The Privette doctrine holds that a higher-tiered party such as an owner or general contractor, is not liable for injuries sust...

We professors mislead students. Among the means of doing so is emphasizing law to the exclusion of fact. We have pedagogical r...

It is the worst nightmare for many taxpayers: A letter from the IRS announcing that they are under audit. The moment that lett...

Ready or not, tax time is looming. And as we enter the last two months of 2019, many opportunity zone investors and developers...

The landmark California Electronic Communications Privacy Act has had a broad impact in the four years since it was enacted, i...

Where federal judges go after the bench.

Let’s face it, for better or worse, usually worse — lawyers like to be in control. In a lawyer’s perfect world, the testimony ...

A new day has dawned with the California Supreme Court’s approval of new Rule 3.3, Candor Toward the Tribunal, last November. ...

Many attorneys still treat social media as a personal outlet that is distinct from their professional identity. Attorneys may ...

One of the main reasons inverse condemnation has received so much attention is because the majority of California’s electrical...

A suit brought in Maryland state court last year against a group of 26 fossil fuel companies, is one of a series of similar ca...

While the rent cap applies retroactively to increases on or after March 15, 2019, the just cause requirements are not retroact...

The power shutoffs, and whether those might be actionable, makes me think about taxes. Despite the protection of the bankrupt...

The late Honorable S.I. Hayakawa is among the curious characters of California’s recent past. Born in Canada to parents from J...

Because 150 people became homeless every day, homelessness rose by 12% last year. We will never end homelessness if we only he...

A Huntington Beach man’s latest attempt to change California’s alimony laws has brought the topic back into the headlines. Ste...

While the expense associated with sophisticated M&A counsel may seem excessive, especially to first-time sellers, the real...

The Trump administration, through the Department of Justice, has sued California, alleging that the state’s Quebec agreement i...

The justices will hear oral argument Wednesday in a closely-watched case could carve a gaping loophole in the Clean Water Act’...

Ballooning corporate power and substantial erosion of the public sphere have caused a yawning chasm between rich and poor. One...

It essentially empowers agencies to overrule federal-court decisions by unilaterally altering the meaning of statutes the cour...

Given the statutory language, the importance of the so-called “American Rule” to the issue of fee shifting, and the public pol...

Among the flurry of bills signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in October were Assembly Bill 61 and Assembly Bill 1493, which expand th...

The issuance of an appellate opinion prompts jubilation for the winners and despair for losers. And why shouldn’t it? The appe...

The case is not about whether climate change is real or caused by human activity. Those issues are conceded by Exxon. Rather, ...

The California Supreme Court recently brought welcome clarity to the law of the kill zone theory. But even after the latest ru...

Just as in baseball, where the home team always gets to bat last, the appellant always gets the last (written) word in the for...

Elijah Cummings, Daniel Goodman and George Washington.