The SAFER Banking Act and rescheduling of cannabis could keep the industry in a state of partial reform, and may hinder full l...

Memorable court moments don’t occur too often, but they do make for great courtroom war stories.

Under the doctrine of foreseeable reliance, a court could find that a professional owes a duty to those persons whom the profe...

The 9th Circuit has been a staunch defender of copyright protections, but it should come as no surprise that the scope of copy...

Claims of intellectual property theft, though a problem, are exaggerated and pose a threat to the extension of the U.S.-China ...

From current time-rounding practices to whether public entities are exempt from certain Labor Code obligations, 2024 promises ...

Recent petitions provide the U.S. Supreme Court a rare opportunity to resolve a conflict between presidential monument designa...

One should not assume that just because a client was injured by a drunk driver, punitive damages are automatically available. ...

The state’s highest court should reverse a recent decision that provides an economic incentive for manufacturers to avoid comp...

Salespersons, many with military backgrounds, present bogus investment opportunities in day trading, commodities and other fak...

The only reason anyone would try to eliminate diversity is because they have issues with it. Most often, those issues stem fro...

There is an argument to be made that Sam Altman should be monitored and controls put into place to prevent unilateral decision...

The bill authorizes a new addition to the Probate Code, Section 5614.5, and could have a substantial impact on California esta...

Assembly Bill 594 adds and amends California Labor Code sections 180, 181, 182, 218, and 226.8 by authorizing “public prosecut...

AB 1307 reestablished existing precedent that minor and intermittent noise nuisances, such as from unamplified human voices, b...

Companies that claim to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions are now required to back-up those assertions, though a regulatory agen...

Starting March 1, 2024, Venture Capital Companies must start reporting the diversity data of portfolio investments made during...

The bill expands the circumstances under which an individual is considered gravely disabled, and therefore may be involuntaril...

AB 1633 allows applicants to sue local agencies that use CEQA delays to effectively disapprove, render financially infeasible,...

The new law should increase the fairness of the civil discovery process by ensuring that all parties have early access to a co...

Reproductive loss leave is a subset of California’s bereavement leave law and increases an employee’s leave entitlement for a ...

Employers must “establish, implement, and maintain, at all times in all work areas, an effective workplace violence prevention...

SB 365 was designed to address this perceived injustice by providing courts with discretion to decide whether a case could pro...

Introduced by Sen. Steven Bradford, SB 700 adds to the existing Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) prohibitions on discrim...

Senate Bill 699 prohibits employers from entering into noncompete agreements regardless of where and when the agreement was si...

Tech glitches and etiquette blunders brought some comedic relief during the pandemic, but 2023 turned more serious as concerns...

There's a right way to use precedent. Explain how a respected authority gave the issue some thought, wrote a persuasive analys...

The case, Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners, L.P., No.-1165, centers upon a company's alleged failure to ...

The process of developing the lawyering skill of civility requires not only the knowledge that civility is a component of prof...

As tensions between data privacy and AI increase, companies will have to balance their data needs with privacy, cyber, and AI ...