This article provides background on polyfluoroalkyl substances, highlights recent regulatory developments and raises, as yet, ...

Under current regulations, employees primarily engaged in executive, administrative, or professional duties, and who receive ...

For the TL/DR audience, the takeaway from a recent trademark case brought by Converse is that when it comes to the importance ...

Regardless of one’s legal, philosophical or moral views on sex work itself, it is not difficult to conclude that something has...

Deputy Associate Attorney General Stephen Cox recently highlighted and clarified several recent U.S. Department of Justice pol...

A hodge-podge: That's the current U.S. data privacy regime.

On Tuesday, a panel of federal appellate judges considered free speech rights in the context of President Donald Trump’s well-...

Despite recent reports, MICRA’s cap on noneconomic damages passes muster under the 7th Amendment right to a civil jury trial.

The opportunity for lawyers to mediate conflicting viewpoints and interests toward some broader vision of the public interest ...

Manufacturers may soon find themselves back in the hot seat after a March 14 decision from the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Brenda F. Harbin-Forte, a judge on the Alameda County Superior Court, has researched and written about African-American women ...

Moody's, one of the world's largest credit rating agencies, may be headed in the right direction. It announced last year that ...

First-time funds have been growing at a healthy pace year over year with continued upward growth since 2013.

Over the past few years, California has passed or strengthened several incentives to promote the more efficient production and...

As a defense attorney, I’m against the death penalty. But as a private citizen, I’m for it.

Justice. It means giving people what they deserve. For stone-cold killers convicted in the justice system, passed through the ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom made history by declaring a moratorium on executions in California and even tweeting out images of the execu...

Marijuana may present the most combative clash between federal and state law today. California legalized medical marijuana in ...

Our previous article addresses the substantive defects of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s rulings in the O...

A lawyer who finds himself in a situation of having to turn on his client in an attempt to justify his own intentional miscond...

At the minimum, clients should have the choice of going to binding arbitration. If they don’t want to go arbitration in the fu...

In what appears to be a massive power grab, the Bureau of Cannabis Control recently approved regulations which override all lo...

While mediation has certainly gained popularity among civil litigators in California, our clients are not always easily convin...

A matter of blockbuster significance is the subject of a current petition for certiorari. The case is Oracle v. Google. We sub...

The federal government’s ignoble mass imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II has a postscript: In 1944 and 194...

The 9th Circuit recently upheld a Santa Monica ordinance regulating short-term rentals companies. This decision is a win not j...

People ask me all the time now if I believe legal education has "bounced back." I am convinced it has bounced, but I doubt it ...

President Donald Trump is acting in an unconstitutional and unlawful manner in spending $8 billion to build a wall without con...

The Bible may say, “No one can serve two masters.” But do these words of wisdom apply to the Sixth Amendment’s right to counsel?

As a former chambers attorney for California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, I was surprised to read about her cons...