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...

Earlier this month, AT&T stipulated to a $60 million judgment to settle the case. The money will be distributed as a parti...

The financial world has begun to prepare for life without LIBOR, as it is anticipated that the index will cease to be widely r...

“This call may be monitored for quality assurance purposes.” We have all heard this statement when we are on the phone with pr...

According to an Oct. 4 Law 360 Legal Ethics release, a New Jersey state superior court judge questioned whether the practice o...

Every year, millions of Americans seek and obtain individual or group disability insurance, hoping to buy a safety net in case...

Following the Federal Circuit decision in Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al., significant attention has been pa...

What kind of showing does the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office require to register color trademarks? And what evidence do cour...

Megan Rapinoe. Alex Morgan. Carli Lloyd. This summer they captured the eyes of the nation, leading the U.S. soccer team to ano...

I recently concluded service on a federal government commission. I learned an important lesson that might seem obvious but is ...

Earlier this year, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Curtis Karnow graced these pages with his view that law school professor...

Last month, Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash filed the ballot measure known as the Protect App-Based Drivers and Services Act with the...

Some businesses predict that they will be badly hurt by the required new expenses. But these claims are overstated because of ...

It sounds like a hustle you might hear on a dark street, the chance to get $10 million and not pay any federal income tax on, ...

A year ago, we heard the terrible news of two Boeing 737Max plane crashes, causing hundreds of deaths, because of a new flight...

Pitty the wrongfully terminated employee who, unable to make ends meet, must find a new job. Inevitably the questions are aske...

The Founders created the impeachment power as the method to remove presidents for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and ...

In 1996, the San Francisco Chapter of the YWCA decided to sell the building located at 1830 Sutter Street, in San Francisco’s ...

The college admissions scandal keeps bumping along. There was a spate of early guilty pleas, but some defendants appear to wan...

It’s no secret that California has a serious housing crisis — in fact, the state has declared a statewide housing emergency to...