Nearly everyone has been impacted by COVID-19, from health worries, layoffs, cutbacks, reneged job offers, business and court ...

Do all-risk business property insurance policies cover losses related to COVID-19? A recent decision out of the Western Distri...

The traditional mission of the U.S. Postal Service is to bind the nation together by providing a “reliable affordable, univers...

Appellate court opinions are usually dry reads. No one takes a stack of advance sheets to read on vacation. Opinions are gener...

In a 90-page opinion issued on July 30, a unanimous California Supreme Court looked deep into the abyss of pension rights and ...

Chelsea Becker was charged with murder after giving birth to a stillborn child. But is that ever, under any circumstances, a c...

I worked for more than 38 years as a writ attorney in the California Court of Appeal, 2nd District, so believe me when I tell ...

The California Supreme Court recently issued its second of two landmark decisions of first impression, addressing criminal def...

For more than half a century, Hollywood film and television studios have contracted to pay high-profile actors and producers a...

Both the reasoning and outcome of the ruling provide important guidance for how employers can and should think about LGBTQ+ is...

Last week, the 9th Circuit handed a big victory to Qualcomm, Inc., reversing the district court’s judgment that Qualcomm unrea...

Having witnessed protests and other actions taking place in cities across the United States, including Seattle, Portland, Los ...

The human aspects of judging are a mystery to most members of the public, and even to lawyers. As a fan of "insider stories," ...

A recent appellate ruling shows that while there are a number of ways lawyers can prove their hours to a trier of fact, only o...

The California Supreme Court has endorsed the catalyst theory under which a plaintiff may receive attorney fees if he or she c...

The 9th Circuit recently set forth a new and clarifying standard for determining whether a party to a federal action has waive...

While some have been enjoying the return of baseball, albeit without fans in the stands, the Oakland A’s are moving forward w...

Identity theft crimes create a unique situation in cases that involve the booking exception to Miranda. During the booking pro...

A new artificial intelligence tool known as GPT-3 has been getting a lot of media attention and fueling excitement for what AI...

In the age of COVID-19, we are all armchair epidemiologists and virologists. These topics closely relate to a larger branch of...

You have heard the stories from around the nation recently: A woman called the police because she perceived “an African-Americ...

July was a tough month for the pipeline industry.

Proposition 51 makes “each defendant” jointly liable for all economic damages, but severally liable for noneconomic damages on...

The court this month applied the standard from one of the oldest communications devices — payphones — to largely uphold the Fe...

On Aug. 8, President Donald Trump issued an executive order and three presidential memoranda tied to fighting the financial ef...

I was disappointed when I read the Aug. 12 supplement, “Top 40 Under 40.”

Recently the State Bar of California approved recommendations by its Task Force on Access Through Innovation of Legal Services...

It took 70 years of advocacy for the 19th Amendment to pass, and it has taken a hundred more for the Equal Rights Amendment to...

Some conservatives, and now President Donald Trump, have advanced an argument with absolutely no legal foundation — that Harri...

In June 2018, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a sweeping decision known as Matter of A-B- in an attempt to eliminat...