Worrier as I may be, mishaps can happen if you don’t read the directions. James Zenovic, for example, didn’t read the directio...

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The thing that strikes me today is that when I was actually doing internships in law firms, I never considered what my own pra...

After I graduated law school, and throughout my career, my Mother has sent me near-daily notes with inspiring quotes and words...

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While bills aiming to expand paid sick leave, expand certain leave of absence rights, and protect the employment of medical ma...

California constitutional and statutory provisions, judicial precedent, and attorney general opinions show that a governor can...

How is arbitration working for California employees? The consensus among plaintiffs' lawyers is that it favors employers, cons...

While Nieves v. Bartlett involved an allegation of retaliatory arrest, the 9th Circuit’s approach in such cases is similar to ...

One might assume the home front would carefully guard the parental rights of those who serve or have served in our armed force...

What responsibilities do U.S. public companies have to prevent theft of company funds through cybercrime? Recent Securities an...

We are at an interesting crossroads: Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions gave employers the green light to use mandatory arbit...

SB 51, which passed by a 35-1 vote on May 21, would allow for the creation of state-chartered cannabis banks or credit unions ...

Recently state and federal courts alike have expanded the interpretation of California law to void not only covenants not to c...

Here at Exceptionally Appealing, we assume that the appellate bar is a cut above the ordinary, and therefore far less likely t...

Sometimes we fail to distinguish between discriminating based on bias on the one hand and being discriminating in the sense of...

The year is 2026. I managed to snag an interview with the president.

Animals are classified as property under the law in all 50 states, but changes in divorce statutes are challenging that paradi...

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a case involving a Border Patrol shooting at the Mexican border. Its result ...

While the Supreme Court is widely expected to uphold the confidentiality of peace officer personnel records, it is unclear whe...

On Monday, the California Supreme Court held that, notwithstanding defendant’s timely submission of a request for costs under ...

If these cases are upheld on appeal, which seems likely, the House will have breached Trump’s “redline” refusal to turn over h...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed some tweaks to the federal government’s opportunity zone regulations which could lim...

On May 3, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed numerous changes to the financial disclosure requirements under Regu...

I recently attended a talk by Judge Jeffrey Sutton who sits on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The subject was a book h...

In response to the growing wildfire danger and liability risks faced by the electric utilities, a variety of wildfire mitigati...

Some California school districts are employing a little-known practice loosely titled, “Recommendation for Reassignment,” to d...

Julian Assange. Bryan Carmody. Each incident is a troubling incursion on First Amendment freedoms. One is a flat-out violation...

With the recent discoveries of multiple purported handwritten wills from the late soul legend Aretha Franklin, what the heirs ...

With the advent of online ancestry tracing, a growing number of "switched sperm" cases are being revealed. Devastatingly, a co...