A case before the 9th Circuit looks at whether the California Resale Royalty Act violates the dormant commerce clause. ...

For three decades, when addressing specific personal jurisdiction in California, courts have been shackled to the "effects" te...

A recent article - especially its headline ("Female attorneys strike out on their own," Feb. 12) - and women-only attorney gro...

While Congress drags its feet on marijuana policy, people are being prosecuted and put behind bars. The courts are taking notice.

A few weeks ago, I found myself on a sunny strawberry farm in Santa Maria in the seat of a John Deere tractor, inspecting the ...

The state Supreme Court should resolve the matter of to what actions the anti-SLAPP statute can be applied.

To focus on relatively minor fluctuations in recent years is to miss the forest for the trees. By David A. Lash, Scot Fishman ...

Lawyers who have tried virtual practice discuss how it worked out and the tech they used.

Today, the 206th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln on Feb. 12, 1809, is a good time to reflect on some of the humoro...

Liability for selling, furnishing or causing to be sold alcohol to an "obviously intoxicated" minor is a strictly construed ex...

Our legal system presupposes a considerable number of contested hearings and a fair number of appeals. Appellate courts play a...

Tom Wheeler is now poised to regulate the Internet under Title II of the Communications Act, which was enacted in 1934 but mod...

James P. Gray's story in a recent column reminded me of an anecdote attributed to the late Milton Friedman.

Two recent guest columns were kindred, if not twins in argument. Abstractions aside, each argued that the minimum wage distort...

The tension between the confidentiality of workplace investigations and the litigation process they serve remains is a complic...

In the past few months, Chinese agencies have enacted several regulations that may impact U.S. corporations operating in China...

"Never underestimate the power of a woman." That is truer today than perhaps at any other time in modern history. And sadly, n...

The conservatorship process for adults with developmental disabilities is broken. By Thomas F. Coleman ...

On Wednesday, Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, proposed regulating Internet service as a public...

Although government performs necessary services and provides an infrastructure that facilitates the production of wealth, it a...

The sustained automation of low- and middle-income wage jobs has given rise to a tension between the regulation of employment ...

I write in response to the article by the Judge William F. Highberger concerning arbitration. ...

In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control announced the eradication of measles. But a decade later and a half later, measles ca...

I despise the aphorism, "There is more than one way to skin a cat," but it is my opening to discuss the au courant practice of...

The criminal defense attorney best known for his work on behalf of the notorious.

Concise arguments may be made using the (oft-ignored) parenthetical. ...

A recent decision represents a minority approach to a common pleading defect but, should this approach become common practice,...

The expansion of the law shows a continued legislative policy to close any loops that may have enabled construction to proceed...

Having consented to a settlement, a settling party who later develops buyer's remorse cannot simply back out of the agreement....

When can a default judgment be vacated for claimed lack of service of the summons and complaint? By Daniel Brenner ...