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Over the last 20 years, California courts have reached conflicting decisions as to whether an insurer must pay for attorney fe...

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I checked the 2012 Court Statistics Report. In fiscal year 1993 our Supreme Court depublished 109 cases. God knows what percen...

With only about 5 percent of the world's population, the U.S. has a full 25 percent of its prisoners.

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Sometimes a media narrative takes off like a bullet train flattening anything in its path, even the truth. Such is the case wi...

Three cases suggest the transformative use analysis is becoming untethered from the basic purposes of copyright law.

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A few days ago, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals published an important opinion that provides new guidance on how real pe...

Deciding that their gymnasium was not an adequate venue to hold graduation, a high school in Wisconsin chose to move to a more...

These companies continue to mount losses as judges scrutinize their practices.

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The attorney-client privilege ends when there is no longer anyone to hold it. But for California corporations, there is no una...

CalEnviroScreen is a first-of-its-kind environmental health information tool. Visually compelling, it is an ambitious attempt ...

Cases before the U.S. and state high courts involve very different analyses, but may ultimately lead to a similar result - rul...

I urge you to assess your work life from a perspective of appreciation. ...

The Supreme Court has restricted the ability of victim of human rights violations occurring in foreign countries to sue in fed...

If you want your healthcare to be run like the Department of Motor Vehicles, you are increasingly close to getting your wish.

So where does the most recent leave the current regulation of talent agents and personal managers?

Filings increased to 83 false advertising cases filed in 2011, and 138 cases in 2012. The trend appears to be continuing as th...

Two 9th Circuit judges recently called for their colleagues to consider en banc whether federal courts should permit state-law...

In April, a bi-partisan panel unanimously concluded that American intelligence and military personnel used interrogation techn...

At my first full panel meeting I gazed across a room filled with over a hundred San Francisco attorneys. I was one of only two...

Perhaps a "primal scream" is just what we need to encourage a movement towards a genuine fix of our political institutions. By...

California courts long have recognized the respective burdens between and insurer and an insured. However, the burdens on the ...

This column speaks, among other things, about matters of bodily functions. Reader discretion is advised. ...

The intersection of social media and Regulation FD has received a lot of attention, particularly following the announcement of...