The American Bar Association recently undertook the question of whether a lawyer may passively invest in a law firm with nonla...

This is the third installment of a 4-part (true) story that began two columns ago.

What happens when a judgment is reversed on appeal and remanded to the trial court? That depends on the appellate court’s “dis...

On Nov. 5, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration published a new COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard. Th...

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s recent column states that what has been missing from the discussion of the new Texas law prohibiting ...

Unfortunately, in recent months a Big Lie about the California Environmental Quality Act has been popping up around California...

More than 750,000 people in the United States have died from COVID-19, but employees in 49 states — including California — hav...

A recent opinion by the 3rd Circuit clarified the standard for pleading a trade secret misappropriation claim under the federa...

On October 5, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a New York case that implicates the right of a criminal defendant...

After 17 months of full-time mediation remotely, I offer these lessons from the pandemic as they pertain to mediation.

The largest U.S. infrastructure-focused budget should include investment in dedicated inpatient facilities for mentally ill an...

As claims arising from the collection and disclosure of biometric information proliferate, businesses faced with lawsuits will...

We all pay taxes, and we all talk about them, especially how we wish they were lower. A surprising number of people also expre...

The U.S. Department of Justice last month announced a refocused and reinvigorated enforcement effort to address corporate crim...

Fact: If you’re going to trial in January 2022, you may have a juror born in the year 2004 on your jury, so you need to unders...

In an unexpected move that has proponents of President Joe Biden’s climate change agenda wary, the U.S. Supreme Court announce...

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón’s policies have resulted in dangerous individuals being released from custody and ...

Avoiding the common pitfalls set below will help the court and its staff address as many litigants as possible.

We often refer to abstract topics by referring to our sensory capacities, such as claiming that something stinks or smells, ev...

Beware: Higher-tiered parties on a construction project can be liable for interference with contract even if they have a socia...

Recently the U.S. Supreme Court granted review in its first environmental cases of the court’s current term; they focus on the...

Investor demand for environmental, social and governance, commonly referred to as “ESG,” investment opportunities has surged w...

To paraphrase “Hamlet,” “Separated, or not separated — that is the question” The date of separation is legally the date of the...

The bill embodies a new, more just approach in which government initiates and completes the process for reducing, dismissing, ...

The 9th Circuit recently created a circuit split regarding the private search exception to the Fourth Amendment and government...

This past summer, President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. This executi...

This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that plaintiffs must suffer concrete harm to have standing to recover for a statutor...

Commercial trucking litigation is complex. The complexities of the collision, the extent of the injury, the intricacies of the...