Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed Senate Bill 396 to address employment issues regarding gender identity, gender expression and...

Probate litigation is booming, with more than 44,000 new cases filed in California last year. So it is no surprise that anti-S...

I often quote to my students the wisdom of famous legal philosopher Yogi Berra: "When you come to the fork in the road, take i...

You may never sell your personal residence, or other property. But if you do, odds are you'll have taxes to pay. With a person...

Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 313 to deal with automatic renewals and continuous service offers.

It would not surprise anyone to learn that more companies are staying private longer. While 2017 has seen an uptick in the num...

Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed Assembly Bill 1701 to address labor wage liabilities owed by subcontractors.

There are millions of registered musical works original enough for copyright.. Some were undoubtedly written by the very same ...

When the Supreme Court hears Patchak v. Zinke early next month, it will address one of the trickiest tensions in the Constitut...

Discovery disputes rarely involve difficult questions of law. Many involve nothing more than intractable positions maintained ...

The shockwaves from the unanimous California Supreme Court decision People v. Sanchez, 63 Cal. 4th 665 (2016), continue to rev...

The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers has been the self-described "preeminent" criminal defense organization fo...

Donald Kilmer's cri de coeur, "Second Amendment is not a second-class right," (Oct. 17, 2017) is the usual apologia of the gun...

This is rare: Both the organized plaintiffs' bar and the organized defense bar believe our current right to choose confidentia...

The bill requires the attorney general to provide written notification that he or she does not believe there is merit to an en...

One thing to keep in mind with regard to an alternative fee arrangement is to make sure everyone is talking about the same thi...

Mediations -- successful ones anyway -- follow an "arc," or script of their own, and an understanding of the "mediation arc" i...

You may have thought the contents of your cellphone were private. Sadly, the very recent decision in People v. Sandee, 15 Cal....

The Supreme Court should hold in Gill v. Whitford that challenges to it can be heard in the federal courts and explain that d...

Shortly after the major Equifax hack, the SEC and Department of Justice opened insider trading investigations based on allegat...

Assembly Bill 168, recently approved by Gov. Jerry Brown, prohibits an employer from asking a job applicant about salary his o...

The last thing a party challenging personal jurisdiction wants to do is slip into a general appearance and thereby "consent" t...

A recent Delaware Court of Chancery decision serves as a good reminder regarding best practices and current laws when Californ...

Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 63 to create a new unlawful employment practice related to parental leave. The bill create...

The number Eight. This diatribe against the overuse of nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements is brought to you by Eight...

Today's rigorous law school admissions process and curriculum screen out those who aspire to be lawyers but lack the basic ski...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently addressed the burden of proving patentability of patent claims that...

An action brought against Montrose Chemical Corporation in 1990 has generated over 20 years of associated insurance coverage l...

The facts are undeniable. According to Credit Suisse, between 20 and 25 percent of the nation's shopping malls will close in t...

As with some others in the entertainment world, Forest Whitaker has had a few tax problems over the years. His latest foray in...