Opati v. Republic of Sudan focuses on whether Congress intended for a statute authorizing punitive damages against state spons...

The federal government will defend the constitutionality of a law that prohibits “encouraging” or “inducing” undocumented nonc...

Any allegation of professional misconduct by the State Bar prosecutor’s office is cause for serious concern for an attorney. B...

The FCA has long served as the federal government's primary mechanism for rooting out fraud and corruption by companies doing ...

In recent years, state regulators and private plaintiffs have attempted to circumvent and undermine a regime of legal certaint...

In addition to the budget itself, employers should be aware of other pro-employee provisions the governor seeks to effectuate ...

To help ensure increased biosimilar licensing and consumer and healthcare provider awareness of the benefits of biosimilars, t...

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A travel ban case is back at the U.S. Supreme Court, but this case has nothing to do with immigration. This case is a dispute ...

Expect parties to look to force majeure provisions.

The art of trial work is being able to be flexible given what’s going on in the courtroom.

How your mediator can help you avoid eating liver and onions

I have thoroughly enjoyed this fast moving and entertaining documentary about the game scandal.

This action by the Los Angeles District Attorney should serve a clarion call to others around the state to follow suit.

Judge Kimberly Mueller issued a detailed written ruling earlier this month in which she stressed that the plaintiffs are “like...

It is safe to say that the current presidential administration has not grown any fonder of or kinder to whistleblowers.

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The “conviction-and-incarceration-obsessed district attorney” is a common caricature used among “progressive prosecutors” look...

The intense partisanship surrounding the Trump impeachment, and more generally around the Trump presidency, has obscured the e...

The California Court of Appeal recently examined a novel legal theory made by a Muslim husband who claimed that he was fraudul...

Although there is certainly no express exemption for big data written into the Sherman Act, determining exactly how antitrust ...

When a federal jury convicted celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti of attempted extortion last week, it sent a clear message: T...

Last week, California again parted ways with federal wage and hour standards to increase protections for the Golden State’s em...

The easier, more modern system is what was envisioned after Bush-Gore

More than two centuries of independence at the U.S. Department of Justice were upended last week when political appointees, pr...

Two years after it was widely documented that cellular carriers were selling highly precise customer location data to third pa...

If you are about to sell stock, your cash of bitcoin, your out of state real estate holdings, or settle a career lawsuit, you ...

In a complex commercial case, a trial lawyer has many ingredients to choose from. There are millions of pages of documents, do...

Given the potential costs and the uncertainties of predicting state and federal court juries, it makes sense that many compani...

More and more trial lawyers are making use of the “mini-opening” in their cases. When done properly, the mini-opening can be a...