As the number of residential "short sales" skyrocketed as an alternative to foreclosure, California enacted legislation in 201...

Only two years after doing so in the context of patent cases, Supreme Court will address the correct standard for awarding att...

On Jan. 28, the California Public Utilities Commission voted in favor of a net metering successor tariff for customers of Cali...

Today in California, there are more than 300 prisoners serving life without parole sentences as well as more than 6,000 with l...

Montgomery should be interpreted for what it is - an acknowledgment that juveniles are different from adults and that those di...

Although it would be easy to place all of the blame on SoCal Gas, the story and context are a bit more nuanced. By Sarah Duffy...

The Supreme Court threw in a zinger in a new case, asking whether President Obama's actions on immigration violate the take ca...

For the families, friends and relatives of the 13 innocent people murdered in the Wichita Massacre, a sentence of life in pris...

In the recent Trump Entertainment Resorts case, the 3rd Circuit addressed two potentially conflicting provisions of fed...

California's lack of "affordable" housing has been the focus of a flurry of policy proposals aimed at increasing the stock of ...

In the 1990s, California voters were duped into dismantling the rights of innocent people injured by the fault of another. By ...

A jury recently found Dr. Hsui-Ying Tseng guilty of murder for deaths of three of her patients, who all died from drug overdos...

Approximately 300,000 people are raped or sexually assaulted in the U.S. each year, according to DOJ statistics. By Betsy Butl...

The Court of Appeal recently held that exclusion of a party's witness for failure to identify the witness in discovery is appr...

The world of data privacy and cybersecurity in the European Union has become awash with new regulation and other fundamental c...

In the past decade, over 90 percent of announced public deals have been challenged by stockholders, sometimes only hours after...

On Jan. 1 of this year, two new laws, the California Electronic Privacy Act and Assembly Bill 929, took effect. ...

The latest edition of "Trade Secret Litigation and Protection in California" is a worthy paperback to add to your collection o...

Surprisingly or not, Congress made no effort to set the contours of what constitutes an "employee" in many of the laws governi...

Lest anyone think the brave new world of e-discovery with its considerable complications for the unwary and unprepared is sole...

Last week, the 2nd District Court of Appeal certified for publication a decision reversing an arbitration award of $1.3 millio...

It's not often that members of the real world, even the regulatory world, stop to pay attention to a court case involving the ...

The IRS recently issued guidance that clarifies when amendments to a Section 401(k) safe harbor plan may be adopted after the ...

There are few commodities in the world that affect daily life like oil. So when the price of oil drops, its impact ricochets t...

This article examines gaps in the laws governing H-1B and H-4 visas that need to be addressed. By Stewart Chang ...

The battle between Republican presidential hopefuls Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio has shown that the Latino community is anything b...

In a recent case, the California Court of Appeal deemed a defendant's confession involuntary when law enforcement officers mad...

Law firms in the market for liability insurance should approach the process like a business deal; it is an ongoing relationshi...

Law firms in the market for liability insurance should approach the process like a business deal; it is an ongoing relationshi...

Prudent practitioners need to be aware of the law of ethical rules governing "cocktail party" situations to avoid inadvertentl...