Talking to strangers is risky. You never know what might bother them. Apparently, some lawyers missed the lesson.

Happy new year! Hopefully, you got everything you wanted for Christmas and didn’t get a lump of coal. For one contractor, aptl...

On Dec. 30, Uber, Postmates and two independent workers who use app-based platforms for referrals filed suit in U.S. district ...

“Behavioral Legal Ethics” is a relatively new area of the law that deals with how automatic and mostly unconscious processes p...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upended divided patent infringement.

Three appellate courts recently reached different conclusions regarding whether a claim for contractual indemnity “arises from...

Employment lawyers are familiar with the full spectrum of remedies available to employees under the Fair Employment and Housin...

On Jan. 3, the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit is scheduled to hear oral argument in a case that could impact the impeachm...

Choice of entity has always been a difficult decision, but two years later we are seeing that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 201...

The Federal Trade Commission announced a record-setting $191 million settlement with the University of Phoenix and its parent ...

Senate Bill is a lengthy and complicated piece of housing legislation that will significantly affect land development in Calif...

As a law professor, I am supposed to teach students how to argue — in a classical education, the subject would be “rhetoric.” ...

Whistleblowers often face the same Catch-22 as recent college graduates. You can’t get a job without experience, and you can’t...

Banks are caught in the between state and federal laws on marijuana. Like any other business, marijuana producers and dispensa...

With the new year quickly approaching, now is a good time to reflect on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ significant cas...

It is an historical anomaly that Supreme Court justices are the only judicial category not currently covered by a code of cond...

Earlier this year Congress enacted the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 with the stated goal of assisting small busin...

Hurricane Harvey. Words that struck fear into many Texans a couple of years ago. The pain still lingers — as does the litigati...

Here is a moral dilemma for those of us who favor equality — or who would like to believe we are egalitarian. It is along the ...

The IRS is aware that millions of cryptocurrency transactions may still remain unreported. Taxpayers may think they will not b...

Earlier this year, California enacted a law granting family law judges the authority to decide unresolved issues about pets in...

California taxes are high, the highest in the nation. Think the IRS is tough? California’s Franchise Tax Board is generally re...

In a crucial “note” applicable to all California lawyers, the opinion uses the social impact of the #MeToo movement to compel ...

In 2017, a Bankruptcy Judge Christopher M. Klein from the Eastern District of California entered a judgment in favor of bankru...

Kanye has turned more and more religious, with a new album called “Jesus Is King.” Perhaps he may have been toying with bankru...

A recent ruling is the latest in a series of 9th Circuit cases reflecting a concern that the self-interest of class counsel an...

The new laws, most of which take effect Jan. 1, 2020, cover a wide area from wage and hour and work classification to hairstyl...

In 2019, the California Legislature had another busy year working on new environmental and natural resource bills.

Whatever may have been the intent of the Private Attorneys General Act when it was enacted, it has since evolved into a legali...

I am among the last generation of professionals to have transitioned from hand writing to typing to computers and the internet...