The driver for these draft international standards is two recent catastrophic failures of tailings storage facilities in Brazi...

It has been almost a year since Senate Bill 1421, California’s amendments to Penal Code Sections 832.7 and 832.8, went into ef...

Now’s the time to think hard about tax deferrals. Should investors use Internal Revenue Code Section 1031, which allows deferr...

The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether claims of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. Section 1981 fail in the absence of b...

In October 2017, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 235, which amended Elections Code Section 13107 to call for the ...

We need stronger federal and state paid family leave laws. In the meantime, however, it is in the best interest of private sec...

As 2019 draws to a close, local agencies in 21 groundwater basins throughout the state are preparing to submit the first Groun...

The California Supreme Court recently decided not to depublish a 2nd District opinion that misstates the law in a manner harmf...

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the wave of litigation that was expected to follow enactment of California’s Senate Bill ...

Back in 1972, in the case Friends of Mammoth Lakes v. Mono County, the Supreme Court entered the fray over the scope of the Ca...

The president is locked in two important legal battles on petition to the U.S. Supreme Court. Both cases involve the validity ...

Some years ago, singer/songwriter Jim Croce began a refrain thus: “You don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t spit into the w...

On Monday, the 9th Circuit heard oral arguments on the issue.

A veteran’s access to a lawyer can mean the difference between living under a roof or under a bridge

A recent case has deepened a split of authority in dependency law. The split concerns one of the most frequently litigated gro...

Assembly Bill 5 creates unique challenges and issues for California public agencies. For example, in order for a public agency...

It’s December, and what possibly could be more important to your law firm than setting new resolutions for 2020? Yes, you’re t...

When an appellate justice writes a concurrence just to point out a trap for unwary practitioners, it merits some consideration...

Multiple sources have helped establish the principle that lawyers may ethically represent clients operating in the cannabis in...

Attorneys are often asked by their clients, “What do you think is going to happen?” or “What is this case worth?” Through expe...

The movie is provocative because they are believable. You cannot leave the theatre without wanting to discuss what has transpi...

Individuals, creators and businesses have a right and a duty to protect themselves and their assets from infringing online act...

The California Legislature has seen fit to add a new tolling exception to the statute which becomes effective on Jan. 1, 2020.

Until courts and legislators recognize that anything short of a jury trial cannot constitute meaningful due process, incentive...

As we near the end of 2019, we continue to see states stepping up to take action with respect to regulating the nonprofit sect...

Last month’s election in Virginia marked another important victory against excessively partisan gerrymanders in America.

It’s the holiday season. A time when family and friends, and even neighbors, gather together.

Far from decreasing, carbon emissions are increasing, even in highly developed economies that fancy themselves leaders in the ...

Today we turn our attention to our fifth subject in our series of data-driven profiles of the justices of the California Supre...

If you have a PPO plan, you can see out-of-network providers, but it’s going to cost you more. Non-contracted providers have n...