If you are a lawyer, does moving out of state make your practice income free of California tax? In many cases the answer will ...

If you engage in income or capital gains tax planning during the year which, at the end of the year, does not look quite as at...

What happens if an insurance carrier is required to post an appeal bond as part of its contractual obligation to an insured s...

Government speech seems like a relatively simple doctrine, and yet its simplicity can be deceiving, especially in the context ...

If Good Guy/Bad Guy affects how judges decide cases, they should talk about it – and allow the rest of us to watch the debate...

Agency actions that have been allowed for decades now are vulnerable to challenge.

The recently published report of the Jan. 6 committee includes sworn testimony that strongly supports a criminal prosecution o...

We are speaking openly about the State Bar’s mistakes to underscore our deep commitment to being both transparent and accounta...

Forensic neutrals play an essential role in safeguarding the accuracy and impartiality of investigations.

AI systems are challenging traditional notions of authorship and creativity and denying copyright protection to these works so...

Public defense benefits the community far beyond the courtroom

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Assembly Bill 1667 holds public education agencies financially accountable for proper reporting compensation to CalSTRS, while...

In deciding how long to keep documents, many attorneys consider the statute of limitation applicable to legal malpractice claims.

When the FTC sought information from the top social media and video streaming platforms, it was simply the next step in the ev...

Given the pervasiveness of illegal cannabis operations throughout California, the Court's upcoming decision in Wheeler ...

There is considerable academic debate over whether corporate political activism has any effect on bottom lines, with some rese...

Few other governors have been as deferential to the parole board as Gov. Gavin Newsom.

A threshold question likely to be presented by any such challenge is whether the FTC can make rules to regulate business pract...

AB 2098 targets pure speech by explicitly applying to advice. If it were meant only to regulate conduct, there would have been...

This case - Braverman v. BMW of North America - is an interesting, but narrow case on how the 9th Circuit handles non-m...

Can an AI program commit a fraud? Can it get its human overseers in trouble?

Meinhardt v. City of Sunnyvale highlights the confusion in California law as to what is or is not a judgment.

The increase in fertility clinic misconduct not only puts patients at risk, but also undermines the public’s trust in the indu...

Lawyers don’t care much about sealing, because it’s easier to just agree documents are confidential to expedite discovery. Jud...

Given a circuit split, plaintiffs seeking to recover for infringements occurring more than three years from suing currently ha...

We’ve all heard the stories of major brands engaging in costly litigation or settlements to preserve their right to use an est...

Next month, the Supreme Court will consider whether a direct listing on an exchange eliminates the need for a claim under the ...