Law firms are being beseeched to consider using no-code capabilities, seemingly allowing lawyers and other legal professionals...

Recent decisions suggest that courts are increasingly inclined to take a measured approach to applying the Labor Code’s wage s...

As the world slowly reopens, it has become abundantly clear that many employees are not rushing to get back into the office an...

The COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside down in numerous respects, leading to various policy and legislative changes to ...

While studies anticipate that some jurisdictions will embrace partial work from home more heartily than others, there is no de...

Will the high court address California’s attempt to wall PAGA claims off from FAA preemption?

In February 2020, the House of Representatives passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act — but it was dead upon arrival ...

Last year, the California Supreme Court released the long-awaited decisions in two separate cases determining that California ...

Employee political speech has become one of the hottest topics for California employers. This has been driven by the ubiquity ...

Cal/OSHA's COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standards have travelled a tumultuous road since their introduction in Nove...

Every lawyer knows that filing a complaint in court is only the beginning of the litigation process. Like the opening kickoff ...

People living with HIV or AIDS must decide whether, how and when to disclose their positive status. In many states, different ...

On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the “hot pursuit” of a fleeing misdemeanor suspect, as contrasted with a felon...

In case you missed it, California is no longer an unfriendly venue for international arbitrations.

When the UCLA Bruins thumped the Houston Cougars by 32 points en route to their NCAA championship, Californians rejoiced. Last...

The Supreme Court’s ruling makes it more difficult for future court challengers of the Affordable Care Act to have their core ...

The dispute between Mexico and the U.S. over a charity established in the 1600s arose out of the two countries’ intertwined hi...

Earlier this month, Judge Roger Benitez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California held in Miller v. B...

While Georgia, Texas and a plethora of other states look to undermine voting rights and further disenfranchise voters, right h...

In a 6-3 opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a major property rights decision in favor of landowners in a case addressing C...

What happens when lawyers break the unspoken rules of how lawyers are supposed to be lawyers?

“Yes, I am a liberal,” said Justice Louis Brandeis. “I call it Civilization.” Pankaj Mishra’s book “Bland Fanatics” takes us b...

In the future, plaintiffs should expect to see defendants add federal-officer or civil-rights removal grounds to their notices...

In the State Bar’s recent news release admitting errors in the handling of past investigations into Thomas Girardi, not one mi...

There is an old adage that cows run away from a storm while the buffalo charges toward it — and gets through it quicker. Do no...

H&R Block recently filed a cert petition that attempts to persuade the United States Supreme Court to grant review of Cali...

When prices increase at constant and predictable rates, forward commitments made today will match economic conditions when per...

Folks in El Dorado County apparently became concerned that more development projects were being approved than local roads coul...

When the Human Trafficking Institute began publishing an annual data set on human trafficking prosecutions in 2018, there was ...

In March 2018, the state of Mississippi enacted a statute entitled the Gestational Age Act specifically to give the U.S. Supre...