Since the current focus in Washington is on the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court, it is easy to overlook t...

Doss v. Bernal was filed in 1943. The plaintiffs alleged that permitting Mexicans to live in the neighborhood would cause them...

The Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017 raises serious due process issues and procedural barriers acut...

While the Indian Child Welfare Act has its detractors, numerous national child welfare organizations tout it as the "gold stan...

Although cannabis remains a Schedule I drug under federal law, the U.S. Patent Office is issuing utility patents and plant pat...

If we continue to "kick the can down the road," we do so at our own peril: Budgets could be slashed, services curtailed and ta...

On an unacceptable phenomenon and a brief encounter in the air.

Know and understand the Southern California deposition stipulation to project experience and protect your clients. By Davi...

Shortly after the major Equifax hack, the SEC and Department of Justice opened insider trading investigations based on allegat...

A recent Delaware Court of Chancery decision serves as a good reminder regarding best practices and current laws when Californ...

Some things cannot be unseen. Last term, the U.S. Supreme Court held that judges could -- and, indeed, must -- open their eyes...

Last week, Nissan added its name to a long list of automotive manufacturers who have been ensnared in public controversy over ...

California judges presiding over civil trials often restrict jury selection in contravention of the law pertaining to this cri...

On Sept. 29, the SEC issued its first civil complaint against two companies and their founder for violating anti-fraud and re...

As Justice Breyer intimated, a Supreme Court decision allowing employer prohibitions on employee class actions would "overturn...

Wouldn't it be nice to have everything one needs to know collected in one place? Enter "Business and Commercial Litigation in...

A federal judge recently held that portions of the city of Newton, Massachusetts's ordinance attempting to regulate unmanned a...

Contracting parties might agree to a forum selection clause for any number of reasons: to ensure favorable legal precedent, to...

The U.S. Supreme Court described laws that empower unions to coerce funds from non-union members as an “extraordinary state en...

There is a cost to be paid for the myriad benefits society derives from the use of algorithms. An occasional “date from hell,”...

So here’s where we are in Masterpiece Cakeshop: The lineup of eight of the justices is pretty clear, 4-to-4.

A city manager’s personal cellphone buzzes in the early morning hours with notice of a string of urgent texts advising about t...

Chairman Jay Clayton of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has reaffirmed that “[c]ybersecurity is an area that is vi...

The justices should take up U.S. v. Nosal to clarify the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act -- the statute was intended...

Carpenter v. United States implicates what is known as the third-party doctrine, under which any information voluntarily provi...

Over the summer, Oregon federal public defenders asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review Mohamud v. United States, a terrorism ...

A primer on how the attorney-client privilege functions in the realm of trust administration. By Benjamin D. Fox

Two recent amendments have important practical implications for private corporations and create a framework for significant ch...

When a class action litigant seeks to discover contact information for a third party--often with respect to potential class me...

At a recent business lunch, I was surprised to hear that many attendees (most of whom are practicing attorneys) pay their chil...