Developers who were hoping for an expansion of opportunity zones recently got some disappointing news.

The following question was posed during a roundtable discussion: “What steps can a court take when it determines that a self-r...

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down its first substantive interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act on June 3 in Van B...

Last summer, the National Labor Relations Board asked for public input as to whether it should rescind, modify or simply retai...

Lawyers craft legal arguments for their court cases. AI-based legal reasoning systems will be able to assist in such efforts a...

The Treasury Department is expected to publish new rules to say that businesses that receive crypto worth more than $10,000 wo...

The House of Representatives recently passed the Insider Trading Prohibition Act, a bill that, if passed by the Senate, would ...

With rare exceptions, such as a need to discuss administrative matters, an ex parte communication between an arbitrator and at...

There once was a time when Angelenos with the misfortune of ending up in a car crash could at the very least count on an offic...

We need strong governing policies for FGG in order to safeguard the privacy of third-party individuals who are found to have a...

Lately I’ve been thinking about judges searching for anonymity when taking a beating by a “higher” court.

One day, back when I was a budding law professor, my phone rang. “Hi. I’m Don Jelinek. I just arrived in the Bay Area from the...

That's the lesson of a few recent appellate decisions.

The South Coast Air Quality Management District recently adopted a first-of-its-kind “indirect source rule” that makes owners ...

“Going Dutch” now may mean increased corporate liability for climate change impacts after a Dutch court found that Royal Dutch...

A review of two recent books examining the origins of some of today’s firearms.

Just as law enforcement programs across the country, in response to the countless George Floyds we’ve learned about, are repla...

Policymakers are preparing to make decisions before the California constitutional deadline of June 15 to pass the 2021-22 Cali...

A trifecta of climate change rulings — finding standing in NGOs and individuals against contributors to climate change and gov...

Although confidential settlements are prohibited in certain cases, there are still types of cases in which confidentiality cla...

Can an arbitrator compel a virtual hearing over the objection of a resistant party?

Two Army veterans, suffering from physical and mental injuries were discharged with less than honorable characterizations to t...

Soft law is oftentimes the precursor to official and formalized on-the-books hard laws. The range of soft law is somewhat expa...

At stake in a case pending before the U.S. high court is the right of a criminal defendant under the Sixth Amendment “to be co...

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 39 “does not permit a district cour...

Wage and hour law often embraces a doctrine of statutory interpretation that puts its thumb on the scale of justice in favor o...

Before the Kardashians, before "Empire," before "Crazy Rich Asians," there was "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" with Robin ...

If your uncle, best friend or bank loans you money, is it taxable? Nope, not if it’s a real loan. But the loan or income disti...

A pivotal First Amendment case involving student use of social media and the allowable boundaries of school regulation of off-...

The intentional deprivation of the life of an appeal can occur contractually.