A common assumption is that the law ought to be readily codified into a form of pure logic and thus amenable to easily being e...

While Assembly Bill 3234 has been touted as a saving grace for first-time misdemeanor offenders who may be offered diversion b...

Twitter is once again making headlines after blocking users from tweeting two New York Post articles on the basis that the art...

This term, the U.S. Supreme Court will address whether 28 U.S.C. Section 1447(d) permits a federal court of appeals to review ...

Ransomware attacks are carried out by cyber criminals who hack a company’s computer systems and encrypt or otherwise block acc...

2021 seems likely to hold big tax changes, but how much higher will they go, and on what specifically?

As quarantine restrictions loosen around the country and people have access to family members, cases of financial elder abuse ...

The courts informed the public that the pandemic was not a time to change agreements and hard-won orders and to deviate from l...

Over the past few months, a spate of shareholder derivative actions and new California legislation have focused on diversity a...

Earlier this month, a federal district court issued a ruling largely upholding the constitutionality of Assembly Bill 32, a la...

The 9th Circuit recently issued yet another opinion seeking to clarify what constitutes a “corrective disclosure” of fraudulen...

On Oct. 6, litigation over access to documents related to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election too...

We are all being inundated with news coverage of the presidential race and information about the candidates. However, far less...

As he wrote in two recent decisions, consequences of federal laws unforeseen by their drafters are no reason to decline to app...

In my salad days, I went through something similar to what we’re seeing on the courts today. It requires adjustments, not surr...

Congress appears ready to enter the ongoing battle for control over the NCAA’s amateurism rules with the introduction of the b...

On Oct. 13, the Supreme Court denied the plaintiffs’ petition for certiorari in a case accusing the president of violating the...

There’s a sound physiological reason that teens on average are less prudent than adults. The prefrontal cortex governing behav...

This bill makes nonjudicial foreclosures slower, more expensive, and a less appealing remedy against defaulting trustors-debto...

The California Supreme Court will soon decide whether to review Johnson v. Monsanto, a product-liability case that spawned ten...

Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act, offers a potential solution to the EU’s call for action after invalidating ...

On Jan. 3, California regulators listed delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, more commonly known as THC, as a Proposition 65 chemical...

Lawyers continue to work full time while serving as teachers, housekeepers, chefs and caregivers. As a result, lawyers must fi...

Existing exhortations about allowing nonlawyers to practice law has created alternative visions about a possible two-tiered ap...

Just like a carpenter, trial lawyers must have specialized tools ready to tackle unexpected situations.

A recent ethics opinion by the American Bar Association examines intimate relationships, friendships and acquaintances with op...

On March 13, President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since that time, the Californi...

“It’s not my victory, it’s yours and yours and yours,” Harvey Milk said after winning a seat on the San Francisco Board of Sup...

Ground-breaking research, published this week, reports that the high minimum passing score (“cut score”) on the California bar...

After a silly season of song suits, we may be returning to the tradition of standing on giants’ shoulders, borrowing words or ...