The recent decisions of several district courts within the 9th Circuit, however, align with the 2nd Circuit's determination th...

The key to success is approaching the process realistically and having the strategic foresight to be prepared for changes alon...

People v. Buza provides an opportunity to ensure that fewer people in the state are convicted of crimes they did not commit an...

Catch up on this year's legal malpractice developments.

The question of what constitutes "informed written consent" can be a complicated one, depending on the circumstances.

Here, we have tried to provide an early and high-level overview of federal income tax issues with which California attorneys s...

A Court of Appeal recently had to wade into and adjudicate what was both a literal and a figurative jurisprudential "water fig...

Two weeks ago, body camera footage of the police killing of Daniel Shaver flooded news outlets across the country, along with ...

We are seeing a current trend in how attorney fees requests are being handled by federal courts, resulting in more defined rul...

The U.S. Supreme Court ended the year with yet another 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversal. The high court overturned a...

A California Court of Appeal broadly interpreted what an insurer classified as an "ongoing operations" endorsement and emphasi...

It is with extreme rarity that I, as presiding judge of the San Francisco County Superior Court, would respond with displeasur...

With an ever increasing number of California employers requiring employees to sign arbitration agreements that include class a...

A recent decision from the Ninth Circuit highlights the problem when a judge participates in social media.

For much of the last several years, the "patent troll problem" dominated trade-publication discussions of patent law. But the ...

This past year both plaintiffs and defendants had something to celebrate.

In 2017, the Supreme Court ruled for the first time that the First Amendment precluded the Patent Office from refusing regist...

Laws combatting unpredictable scheduling practices may be the next wave of wage and hour regulation.

The Senate passed the Republican tax reform bill, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, early Wednesday morning. The House is expected to...

Late Friday the legislative branch released its conference tax reform bill, The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, for which voting is set...

Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, may come to be known as Chairman "the Grinch" Pai for leading the...

Late Friday the legislative branch released its conference tax reform bill, The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, for which voting is set...

A little publicized provision in the proposed tax bill will dramatically affect many divorced or divorcing couples.

When the client is a minor, the rules are very different and may even cause one to be unable to be relieved from representation.

We lawyers spend a good chunk of our waking hours writing stuff. We write briefs, letters, emails -- you name it. So it's wort...

The objective of this article and self-study test is to review the law regarding objections to the use of peremptory challenge...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled earlier this year that profit participants could not rely on the discovery rule to brin...

A cautionary tale on the perils of "plugging in" those standard settlement terms when more careful drafting is warranted.

This year has seen different responses on college campuses with regard to controversial speakers.