To save a successful Chapter 11 restructuring from, in the words of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, going “up in smoke,...

Governor Gavin Newsom delivered on his campaign’s promise to invest in California’s children and families in the Budget Act of...

Insurance policies are full of phrases and terms that might have one “ordinary and popular” meaning but a completely different...

As medicine, science, and the law continue to develop, lawsuits for wrongful birth and wrongful life are increasingly being re...

An absolute ban on all uses of all forms of a particular technology is rarely, perhaps even never, appropriate, at least where...

Artificial intelligence is all the rage. We constantly hear about it in one form or another. Automation. Big data. Machine ...

A 9th Circuit panel held that such pleas are involuntary if the government lacked probable cause to prosecute the third party ...

While work on AI-related technology started over 60 years ago, more than half of the nearly 340,000 AI-related patent applicat...

This comes up often when the named employee in a class action doesn’t sign an arbitration agreement, but other employees do.

Math skills are disappearing from the legal profession

Sometimes Supreme Court controversies promising tectonic shifts in constitutional rights and legal doctrines do not turn out t...

That a district court could not ignore or refuse to follow an order by the Federal Communications Commission related to the Te...

Companies seeking to reward employees for their contributions during their employment through the use of equity awards may not...

In 2017, Professor (now Dean) Erwin Chemerinsky’s book, “Closing the Courthouse Door,” was published. The book’s subtitle pres...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed at the end of 2017 doubled the estate and gift tax exemption. With much aplomb, it was announ...

As a law professor, I have realized we need to teach students a skill they by and large lack when they enroll: how to use the ...

I write to make three important corrections, and one clarification, to Howard Miller’s June 13 column, “Tectonic legal plates:...

On June 5, the SEC adopted a package of new rules, amendments and interpretations that addresses the obligations of broker-dea...

Please forgive the levity in the title of this column. Lawyers who litigate constitutional property rights cases have been wai...

When news first broke in March of a brain-damaged man whose injuries stemmed from an attack in the Dodger Stadium parking lot,...

In a 7-2 decision, Supreme Court affirmed this separate sovereign principle in Gamble v. United States

Limited civil cases have special procedural rules, under the rubric “Economic Litigation.” One of these, at Section 98, allows...

Patent litigators lacking a technical degree, particularly those who enter the field after law school, are a small minority of...

The state high court provided helpful clarification of rules that balance the powers of charter cities and state entities. The...

On the morning of September 28 last year, Sen. Jeff Flake announced he would be voting to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. A few hours...

Taking a “burying your head in the sand” approach will not make a complaint filed with the State Bar go away. In fact, Busine...

They are not only great for law students; hosts benefit, too

Having participated in dozens and dozens of mediations as a lawyer, I thought I had seen it all.

The SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations releases an annual Examination Priorities report that identifies c...

Driving around in Fresno County, it’s impossible to miss the workers squatting in the fields picking strawberries or cauliflow...