Over the past few years, catastrophic wildfires in California have led to an increased use of public safety power shutoff, oft...

While the FCC under Ajit Pai’s leadership may be expected to disavow any responsibility for videoconferencing on the basis tha...

During recent oral arguments, Justice Amy Coney Barret rightly said: “I think we would agree that there’s really not any circu...

Last week, Jonathan “Mac” Williamson, a former standout outfielder for the San Francisco Giants, filed a negligence and premis...

Notwithstanding constitutional limitations, the Legislature has provided that in probate conservatorship proceedings — cases i...

What a year 2020 has been. Many people in California and elsewhere are still working remotely. In some cases, that includes pe...

Over the last several months, Los Angeles County has been on the cutting edge of developing novel solutions to the education a...

There are a few things to note specifically about the respondent’s brief.

Of late, the California Supreme Court has devoted a fair bit of its time to resolving ambiguities in several of the recently a...

The defeat of California’s Proposition 25 may have come as a surprise to some, but not to those who have closely watched the d...

Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit issued a split panel decision on induced infringement.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced courts all over the state to quickly adapt to new modes of operation. Civil operations in Ora...

Settlements are often largely within the control of the parties to structure to bring a case to resolution. However, when sett...

Despite damning precedent that the test may apply to the franchise relationship, franchisors may have a viable argument that f...

“Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

COVID-19 has awakened the legal community to use technology more effectively to efficiently resolve cases.

Living and paying taxes in California is expensive. If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it might just be that it ...

A Brooklyn native who was raised in Queens and had attended college and law school on the east coast, Hal had no inkling that ...

Efforts to achieve artificial intelligence that can perform legal reasoning ostensibly on par with human attorneys are ongoing...

Amazon marketplace sellers battle counterfeit goods (and Amazon)

For helping women veterans heal, she was called a ‘feminazi’

The Schrems II decision is the most significant event in the history of trans-Atlantic data flows. It results from a long-runn...

For the past two years, many companies doing business in California have worked overtime to comply with the California Consume...

It is no surprise that consumers have already filed many lawsuits seeking statutory damages under the CCPA — and that almost a...

Writing for a unanimous Supreme Court, Justice Clarence Thomas explained that the False Claims Act’s “materiality requirement”...

The National Environmental Protection Act has been called the “Magna Carta of environmental laws” for good reason. Its twin ai...

There comes a time when it’s time to rethink old things. The institution of the grand jury has been around for a long time, si...

You can buy a lot with $200 million. The most expensive ballot proposition in California’s history delivered almost exactly wh...

A common dilemma faces counsel regarding the timing of an appeal of a partially adverse merits judgment while an attorney fees...

Next in the Negotiating Trauma & the Law series, Protima Pandey speaks about why her experiences across nonprofit, public,...