What can you say about a ballot measure, ostensibly designed to enhance online data privacy, that is being opposed not only by...

For patent infringement defendants, successful assertion of the following defenses measurably increases their chances for reco...

Probate Code Section 21380 can succeed where the ‘Slayer Rule’ fails.

The bill will support housing development by allowing additional time for those with approved housing development projects to ...

Last month, amidst widespread social unrest and calls for racial justice and the dismantling of structural racism in communiti...

Legislators, equal pay advocates, and other stakeholders have identified unchecked biases, historic inequities, legal loophole...

Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court set to consider when police can use deadly force

California’s provisional license program promises more than it can deliver. The problems range from practical challenges to sy...

I couldn’t help but be reminded of Stella Liebeck’s “windfall” while reading Shih v. Starbucks Corp., decided last week by the...

Potentially impacting thousands of businesses, the California Legislature has passed Assembly Bill 1577, a bill that would con...

Off-the-clock claims are not exactly new to the field of wage and hour litigation, but remote work presents timekeeping challe...

About writing, and running, and tennis.

For the second year in a row, the California State Assembly passed legislation to strengthen the California False Claims Act —...

We first opened our doors in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1920 at 7:30 p.m. It was an evening-only program with...

As a former member of the California State Bar Board of Trustees from 2013-2019, including having acted for several years as a...

Last week, following nearly a decade of litigation, a Los Angeles Superior Court ruled in favor of a group of coffee defendant...

A recent appellate decision shows just how far the courts are willing to go to insulate California public policy from the pree...

In the military, Jackie Robinson took a stand within a racist system

“Conversations with RBG,” authored by Professor Jeffrey Rosen, is a good place to begin for a probing, yet concise, book about...

I have been a proponent of incorporating technology into law practice since I started practicing back in 1985. Now here I am, ...

President Donald Trump’s constant attacks on the judiciary are a violation of the separation of powers set out in the U.S. Con...

I read Judge Rupa Goswami’s article and it hit home — hard.

At the zenith of the legislative session, 31 separate bills were under consideration to either amend or abandon AB 5. If, as e...

I thoroughly enjoyed David Ozeran’s article in the August 25 Daily Journal on opinions reflecting judicial wisdom/humor. Here’...

You represented your client from the beginning of a dispute to the very end. You obtained a result that, while not an outright...

Amid all the adversity, some attorneys may unfortunately be tempted to make a bad decision.

The current year has developed in surprising ways for most of us. With an election looming and governments dealing with the ef...

The tax code is chock full of penalties, so you always want to behave reasonably and in good faith. One of the biggest and mos...

The Judicial Council’s elimination of its unlawful detainer moratorium forced the California Legislature to take urgent action...

Sometimes you can see a train wreck coming a mile away. Design Built Systems v. Sorokine is one of those cases. It also happen...