In Jolie v. Superior Court, Angelina Jolie obtained a writ of mandate from the 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 7 orderi...

No, as enjoyable an image as it may conjure up, chances are that you probably won’t be seeing a large number of your bar colle...

Titles can be misleading... even my own

On July 21, a California appellate court issued a significant decision involving royalty agreements

Trial judges from across the state weigh in on proper brief writing — including their thoughts on attacks on opposing counsel.

Ironically, while MICRA has threatened the lives and wellbeing of patients, it has not even helped doctors. Despite MICRA, th...

It not surprising that, for better or worse, the creative juices of lawyers considering arbitrator bias claims continue to flow.

In a recent case, the court denied the estate’s motion to discuss, finding that even non-willful penalties survived the taxpay...

For many employers, if not all, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape of the workplace. Particularly, the hybrid bus...

Trained as a lawyer, with a year clerking on the 9th Circuit, Dahlia Lithwick writes for Slate, the influential online news ma...

In a recent ruling, the California Supreme Court analyzed how stare decisis applies to a 19th century decision with questionab...

Anyone who's been around the Federal Arbitration Act block knows that the grounds for relief are exceedingly limited. But if a...

The use of computational pattern matching known as machine learning has taken the marketplace by storm in all realms, includin...

Did you know that on or near every military base in the United States is a food pantry? Did you know that more than one-third ...

Part 3: Duties owed by associates of afflicted lawyers

Way back in 2014, IRS ruled that cryptocurrency is property in Notice 2014-21. That classification as property has some big ta...

San Francisco teems with icons: Alcatraz, cable cars, the Transamerica Pyramid. The greatest is the Golden Gate Bridge, an eng...

A growing list of states are offering pass-through business owners a workaround for the $10,000 federal deduction limit on sta...

Assembly Bill 104, signed and filed on July 1 as an “urgency statute,” added three new sections to the California Education Co...

In Jolie v. Superior Court, the 2nd District Court of Appeal mandated strict and literal compliance with the disclosure obliga...

While technology gurus have praised Tesla’s autopilot feature, the feature has put Tesla in uncharted legal territory. A recen...

Earlier this year, two opinions interpreting privacy rights statutes issued within hours of each other, one from the U.S. Supr...

Undertaking a traditional underwritten registered offering can expose a company to the risk of a “closed” window. A closed win...

The California Supreme Court held that employers must include non-discretionary payments such as commissions, bonuses, piece r...

It’s TV awards season, and an Emmy-worthy drama is unfolding around an unlikely subject: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

Law is a rules-based profession for a reason. Attorneys are trained to understand and interpret basic to complex rules that in...

The harms to the unhoused and to all of us have become too severe to be excused by doctrines of federal deference.

A recent appellate ruling may come as a surprise to the defense bar, which might have assumed that general, even categorical, ...

As much as any federal judge in the country, Milan D. Smith, Jr. of the 9th Circuit represents the ideal in public service, go...

I’m often asked: When examining witnesses, my opponents like to ask questions that have nothing to do with the case. Why don’t...