Most people agree that it is good to inform policy decisions with empirical data. Then again, the California State Bar is not ...

In one of the most important cases of our generation, the California Court of Appeals ruled that there is no minimum guarantee...

Security experts have agreed that a "unicorn system" that is both secure and open to law enforcement simply isn't plausible. B...

Within the grand architecture of legal ethics, the attorney's duty to supervise subordinates might be compared to a prosaic co...

If settlement proceeds are not used to reimburse Medicare, counsel who have held the settlement funds, as well as the insuranc...

What many lawyers do not realize is that pursuit of claims under statutes that do not allow for fees may provide fees by "osmo...

The Defend Trade Secrets Act seems to address a gap in the current California trade secret laws and precedent that Silicon Val...

The reality is that the Defend Trade Secrets Act will create more problems than it solves as it's injected into the current st...

You keep using the word "indictment." I do not think it means what you think it means. By David Graulich ...

Judge Garland does not himself have an obvious disability or life experience with disability that is yet part of the public re...

The Supreme Court didn't seem interested in adopting either side's position at oral argument in a recent case about the False ...

However well-meaning demands to use our own personal devices may be, law firms and attorneys are required by strict ethical st...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently published for comment proposed rule changes governing practice before t...

Given National Labor Relations Board decisions following Iskanian, such tempered deference to the decision is not warra...

In this debate, there are few easy answers. By David W. Opderbeck ...

Several recent cases, including a Supreme Court ruling last week, mark the beginning of a transforming regulatory landscape fo...

No one wants to feel like a loser. But if you ever should want a reason to hate yourself a little more, then do what I did las...

Tom Cruise once told us that we couldn't handle the truth. It's become clear now that Hollywood can't either. That's because a...

In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court said that an asset freeze violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel when s...

Whether or not to self-report violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has constituted a problematic and vexing questio...

A recently issued and strongly worded opinion by a federal court of appeals held that the district court "significantly overst...

Things such as typos or open warfare between subject and predicate will — like it or not — make some readers suspect that your...

As one Spanish proverb goes, "To change one's mind is rather a sign of prudence than ignorance." The latest installment in the...

Whether the "Jewel doctrine" remains good law (and good policy), however, has come into question in light of the recent...

A recent case should call into question the mandates of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights and that off...

Despite its good viewer share — some evidence that the Simpson case will continue to live on — the recent series purporting to...

This, our inaugural column, discusses an opinion the 9th Circuit released in early March, Shell Offshore Inc. v. Greenpeace...