While most understand that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 has had a major impact on tax rates and deductions, it is importa...

The who, what, when, where, why and how of deciding to leave your law firm.

Was Senate Bill 901 the answer or do questions remain?

Architects seem to hold a special place in our hearts. They’re the good guys. And in California, they even get special protect...

If you are holding bitcoin or other crypto, you may well not want to sell until the market recoveries. But if you owe taxes, h...

The threat of the disclosure of personal data is ever-present in today’s society, as seemingly every week there is another rep...

Way too often, I see otherwise excellent lawyers squander their time, their client’s money, and most importantly, the credibil...

Rather than strain to explain how the no-free-lunch maxim applies to appellate practice or the law generally, let’s just accep...

Putting pen to paper, because of the individual exertion, has persisted. I might be imagining it, yet I believe I am more thou...

Although traditionally directors have seen a high threshold for liability, it has been eroded both at the trial court level an...

In a state replete with regulation, California adopted two new laws aimed squarely at combating human trafficking.

Former California Supreme Court law clerk Christopher Hu suggests California could benefit from a “specialized high court bar,...

Could last summer’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME, forbidding states from allowing unions to garnish wages of nonmember employee...

This, my last column for the year, leans toward the sentimental, but I hope not the maudlin.

The Nov. 21 headline story on bail reform contained the following statement: “They’ve [billion dollar private equity firms] sh...

Students and parents alike often rely on their university or college to provide services to enhance student safety and create ...

The year isn’t over yet. But in early 2019, when you sit down alone or with your accountant, is the $10,000 deduction cap with...

Is this one area where Washington, D.C. is actually worthy of emulation?

I agree with Howard Miller on one point: The bar exam is to test minimum competence to practice law. I disagree with everythin...

Taken as a whole, these laws continue a significant trend toward increasing the expectations on local governments to make prog...

In his new book, "Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Bargain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Saved My Mother," Loyola Law Sch...

Mediation can be an extremely constructive and fulfilling process resulting in a mutually agreeable resolution. However, resol...

Attorney-at-large Julie Kessler spoke to the Bailiff, Sir Richard John Collas, in his chambers in the Bailiwick earlier this ...

Judge Waddington runs through some of the most recent 9th Circuit cases that have been reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Percentage-based legal representation has long-been an accepted method by which most ordinary consumers obtain legal represent...

During a speech delivered last month at the NYU School of Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement, Assistant Attor...

In recent years, the number of foreign companies litigating in China has surged with progressively more positive outcomes. The...

Unfortunately, lawyers are seldom taught or trained in how best to communicate (other than with a jury or judge in the ultimat...

The Northern District of California comprehensively updated its Procedural Guidance for Class Action Settlements on Nov. 1, 20...

In one of its early decisions this term, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to give us all a lesson in the proper use of the Engli...