Gov. Gavin Newsom made history by declaring a moratorium on executions in California and even tweeting out images of the execu...

Marijuana may present the most combative clash between federal and state law today. California legalized medical marijuana in ...

Our previous article addresses the substantive defects of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s rulings in the O...

A lawyer who finds himself in a situation of having to turn on his client in an attempt to justify his own intentional miscond...

At the minimum, clients should have the choice of going to binding arbitration. If they don’t want to go arbitration in the fu...

In what appears to be a massive power grab, the Bureau of Cannabis Control recently approved regulations which override all lo...

While mediation has certainly gained popularity among civil litigators in California, our clients are not always easily convin...

A matter of blockbuster significance is the subject of a current petition for certiorari. The case is Oracle v. Google. We sub...

The federal government’s ignoble mass imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II has a postscript: In 1944 and 194...

The 9th Circuit recently upheld a Santa Monica ordinance regulating short-term rentals companies. This decision is a win not j...

People ask me all the time now if I believe legal education has "bounced back." I am convinced it has bounced, but I doubt it ...

President Donald Trump is acting in an unconstitutional and unlawful manner in spending $8 billion to build a wall without con...

The Bible may say, “No one can serve two masters.” But do these words of wisdom apply to the Sixth Amendment’s right to counsel?

As a former chambers attorney for California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, I was surprised to read about her cons...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the city of Santa Monica’s ordinance regulating short-term vacation rental of res...

In early January, Chinese blockchain security firm SlowMist and U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase separately announc...

Last June, Ray Lucia won big at the U.S. Supreme Court. Yet Lucia finds himself once again facing SEC proceedings before a jud...

In a case where the unusual has become the norm, all eyes will be on the Supreme Court to see if or how it addresses the Calif...

A July 2017 paper on quantum mechanics suggests the future influences the present. Our Supreme Court appears to have to come t...

Fortunately, the Code of Civil Procedure offers a potential escape hatch when an attorney’s mistake, inadvertence, surprise, o...

The term “admissibility” typically refers to evidence introduced at trial. A concept that is perhaps more nuanced, but typical...

of summary adjudication and summary judgment orders

During his campaign Gov. Newsom promised that although he does not support the death penalty, he would not interfere with the ...

The new tax law created an incentive program which encourages investors to make long-term financial investments in opportunity...

The IRS can't take your passport exactly, but it can tell the State Department to do so. Whether this is a good idea can be de...

Governor Gavin Newsom's moratorium on executions was hailed in many circles for halting a death penalty process in California ...

Proposed law may actually impede lactation accommodations for working mothers and promote litigation.

While the California Supreme Court chose not to revisit the rule in the recent Cal Fire case, it could choose to do so in thre...

The opioid problem is monstrous and tentacular. Litigation is a critically important component of the response to the crisis: ...

The Supreme Court holds that there are no equitable exceptions to Rule 23(f)’s 14-day deadline to file a petition for permissi...