California’s new Rules of Professional Conduct, effective Nov. 1, 2018, put new two factors at the top of the list of 13 eleme...

Sweeping legislative change is vitally important, necessary and justified to strike a better balance between state and local ...

The California Supreme Court will hear oral argument in ALADS v. Superior Court on June 5. The court must hold that law enforc...

Conventional wisdom holds that there is now a solid pro-business majority on the U.S. Supreme Court. A 5-4 decision on Tuesday...

He was one of the most feared criminal figures of the 1970s and 1980s. Suspected to have committed multiple murders and dozens...

On May 20, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Ritzen to address the question of whether an order denying a motion fo...

The 9th Circuit recently had the chance to referee a dispute between the rights granted to agricultural labor unions by the Ca...

By any measure, Bill Buckner had a fine career: Over 2,700 base hits, won a batting title with the Cubs, and played for 22 sea...

New York may implement California-style chemical warnings creating bi-coastal complications for businesses big and small.

Lawyers may source money entirely for themselves, clients alone may seek it, or each may get some, depending on how the deal i...

Earlier this month, the California Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision limiting the application of the state’s ubiquitou...

The appeals court recently upheld the right of California union organizers to enter an agricultural employer’s property for th...

The Judicial Council recently floated proposed changes to the rules of appellate filings in the California Supreme Court and c...

In the past few years, private advocacy groups that intervene to defend challenged laws have successfully sought hundreds of t...

The recent outbreaks of childhood diseases all around the nation confirms for me the importance of academic freedom.

It is against the law to text and drive, but what about texting when doing classwork? For many students in California, the day...

If a potential client, or the child of a potential client, faces imminent risk of serious physical harm, the pursuit of a dome...

The California Supreme Court failed to take action for the fourth time since it was provided State Bar statistical data reflec...

Any lawyer who represents plaintiffs in complex cases knows the difference between defenses raised on the pleadings versus def...

During the Obama administration, red states complained that federal statutes and regulations interfered with their rights unde...

Lawyers have a duty to communicate with their clients. And they have many options regarding the means they use to do so. These...

As putative Telephone Consumer Privacy Act class counsel become more sophisticated and define wrong number classes that are un...

A recent survey found that 60 percent of male managers say that they’re uncomfortable mentoring, working one-on-one or sociali...

The type of broad arbitration agreement used by many private schools makes no exception for disputes that involve a student’s ...

Director John Singleton and former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel were very different Hollywood animals, but both made common but criti...

Two recent appellate decisions reach opposite conclusions in very similar situations. These decisions remind us that there rar...

Not surprisingly, technology is not the main barrier to the introduction of urban air taxis. Rather, regulation and public pol...

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved a three-way circuit split in favor of allowing relators to bring claims under the F...

In a ruling that affects a range of commercial drivers, including ride-sharing services, shipping companies and delivery servi...

While attention has been focused on massive data breaches at large corporations over the past few years, a study of cyber inci...