A closely divided court decided that while the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act prohibits traditional retailers from collecting in...

As a recent case shows, if a mediator-turned-arbitrator is only authorized to interpret and, if necessary, amend a settlement ...

Physicians are far more likely to improve patient care if the Legislature increases the cap on noneconomic damages (adopted in...

Gov. Jerry Brown has commendably and justifiably challenged a federal court panel order to release inmates of California prisons.

Since most of us will spend almost two-thirds of our life's waking hours in some sort of "work," it's a shame to think of just...

Sadly, a new court ruling affirms the problematic notion that if phrased incorrectly, lawyers can be sued for their words.

The objective of this article and accompanying self-study test is to familiarize readers with the law of bail and O.R. release.

Last week, the US high court ruled that "social sharing of marijuana" did not justify mandatory deportation because such condu...

Finding a talented mediator is good fortune. Finding a talented author is good fortune, too. Finding both in the same person i...

The California Arbitration Act requires an arbitrator to "disclose all matters that could cause a person aware of the facts to...

When love, law and money intersect, lawyers may lose their right to arbitrate malpractice claims against them. At least that i...

The show created a link between mental and developmental disabilities and gun violence.

The recent California appellate court decision illustrates how hard it actually is to maintain and win an idea-theft claim. ...

Personal injury attorneys who represent injured workers covered by employer-sponsored health plans should be wary. Injured wor...

One of the most daunting changes is the transfer of all personal injury cases, countywide, to just three specifically designat...

The high court's decision in Genesis Health Care is part of larger trend - a trend to limit procedural rights so that g...

Decisions handed down in 2012 have made "divisibility" more difficult to establish as a defense. ...

For those companies doing business nationally and internationally, the initiative reach is global. ...

Approximately 30 bills have been introduced this year in the name of CEQA reform or modernization. But which, if any, of these...

The "General Duty Clause" of the CAA has become a major EPA enforcement tool for responding to accidental releases and environ...

Ten years ago, actress and singer Barbara Streisand taught the legal profession a lesson about how the Internet works. Many at...

It boggles my mind to consider the ramifications of licensing nonlawyers.

On April 11, a jury convicted infamous con man Christian Gerhartsreiter for the 1985 murder of John Sohus, despite no direct e...

Clients in the "soft" IP cases pose special challenges because certain concepts, such as "fair use" and "substantial similarit...

Equitable estoppel is a well-established doctrine, but its fact-specific application often is hard to predict. This is exempli...

In Cephalon v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, the court held that experimentation is not "undue" even though it is "complicate...

Although the White House enthused that the AIA would offer new ways to avoid patent litigation, the law of unintended conseque...

Just because something is novel and potentially patentable does not mean that you should expend your technical staff's time an...

True or false: If you are not selling your product in China, but merely sourcing or manufacturing there, you cannot be held li...

If the decision in Exela Pharma v. Kappos is reversed, then the district court will proceed to scrutinize the statutory...