For years, courts have criticized California’s felony murder rule; now that the Legislature has responded, with the attorney g...

Reflections on my week as a volunteer attorney at the Dilley Immigration Detention Center

A recent appellate ruling is yet another stark reminder of the severe consequences when a settlement requiring payments over t...

After adopting a complete re-vamp of its Rules of Professional Conduct last year, a California State Bar Task Force has propos...

Here’s an irony of the California bar: Passing our nation’s most difficult bar exam provides the least valuable license to pra...

States are increasingly recognizing that lives can be saved by Extreme Risk Protection laws, which enable people who exhibit ...

Suggestions for enhancing an externship’s educational value to the student as well as maximizing the value of the student’s co...

Recent state legislation has reduced local control over ADUs in a variety of ways with more to come. State law now prohibits l...

When the rape and sexual misconduct trial of former NFL star Kellen Winslow Jr. ended on June 11 in San Diego, court observers...

The 9th Circuit recently certified two questions regarding meal and rest breaks to the California Supreme Court that have perp...

In our country’s fraught search to do something to stop mass violence, and hold someone or something accountable for conduct t...

August 16, 2019, was to be the kick-off of a 3-day rock festival bearing the name: Woodstock 50. Would it have the same meanin...

Seeing a quick way to make a bunch of bucks, the paparazzi are suing celebrities to squeeze every penny out of these impromptu...

Today, we’re continuing our series of data-driven profiles of the justices of the California Supreme Court. Our third subject,...

After the two most recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, President Donald Trump suggested that he might support federal...

Then in 2018, the Trump administration froze the corporate average fuel economy standards, neither reducing neither fuel consu...

How artificial intelligence and deep learning will impact employment litigation

Law can appear like magic to those who are not lawyers, and no doubt there are those jokers who would liken the disciplines as...

An effective severance agreement can help you reduce legal risk. As with any type of employment agreement, the devil is often ...

Contrary to popular belief among lawyers, application of the litigation privilege is not limited to civil lawsuits.

Instead of merely following the latest trend for choosing a legal form, founders should weigh the following considerations.

Even with knowledge of the rules, attorneys can sometimes let their emotions get the best of them in the heat of a deposition....

On Thursday, the 9th Circuit affirmed the district court’s order certifying a class of Facebook users who allege that Facebook...

Subrogation means the stepping of one person into the legal place of another. In a lease where there is a “waiver of subrogati...

There is a long list of publications that you actually can rely on, including the tax code and the regulations. There are many...

When the governor not only executes the laws, but also orders the adoption of laws to overturn judicial decisions, the governo...

People new to the cannabis industry often think that marijuana is simply “legal in California.” That’s only partially true; ma...

In the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, so-called “Red Flag” laws, now in force in 17 states, are becoming a ...

When lawyers and their former clients are sued for malicious prosecution, it is necessary to determine applicable statutes of ...

You may have heard of the recent decision out of the 2nd Circuit that addressed the First Amendment implications of the presid...