Making sense of the precedential value of the US Supreme Court’s non-merits orders

What do the Dodgers, American Apparel, Rubio’s Fish Tacos, California Pizza Kitchen, MGM Studios and Pacific Sunwear have in c...

Businesses in California have a solid, triple threat coming at them right now — a new year, a new administration in Washington...

Psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca and peyote, are federally illegal. Nevertheless, over the next few ...

Even if you do not litigate long-term disability claims, understanding their importance will guide clients in the right direction

California is once again on the forefront of data privacy law with the passage of Proposition 24, the California Privacy Right...

California has set new statewide restrictions and pulled an “emergency brake” of reopening rollbacks in counties across the st...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument last week in the most controversial cases of the term, concerning the constitutiona...

The 2020 California wildfire season has involved the largest and most destructive fires on record in state history. Cannabis g...

A guide for the unwary

There is a palpable and ongoing tension underlying the role of sentiment in both the practice of law and throughout our courts...

Over the past few years, catastrophic wildfires in California have led to an increased use of public safety power shutoff, oft...

While the FCC under Ajit Pai’s leadership may be expected to disavow any responsibility for videoconferencing on the basis tha...

During recent oral arguments, Justice Amy Coney Barret rightly said: “I think we would agree that there’s really not any circu...

Last week, Jonathan “Mac” Williamson, a former standout outfielder for the San Francisco Giants, filed a negligence and premis...

Notwithstanding constitutional limitations, the Legislature has provided that in probate conservatorship proceedings — cases i...

What a year 2020 has been. Many people in California and elsewhere are still working remotely. In some cases, that includes pe...

Over the last several months, Los Angeles County has been on the cutting edge of developing novel solutions to the education a...

There are a few things to note specifically about the respondent’s brief.

Of late, the California Supreme Court has devoted a fair bit of its time to resolving ambiguities in several of the recently a...

The defeat of California’s Proposition 25 may have come as a surprise to some, but not to those who have closely watched the d...

Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit issued a split panel decision on induced infringement.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced courts all over the state to quickly adapt to new modes of operation. Civil operations in Ora...

Settlements are often largely within the control of the parties to structure to bring a case to resolution. However, when sett...

Despite damning precedent that the test may apply to the franchise relationship, franchisors may have a viable argument that f...

“Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

COVID-19 has awakened the legal community to use technology more effectively to efficiently resolve cases.

Living and paying taxes in California is expensive. If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it might just be that it ...

A Brooklyn native who was raised in Queens and had attended college and law school on the east coast, Hal had no inkling that ...

Efforts to achieve artificial intelligence that can perform legal reasoning ostensibly on par with human attorneys are ongoing...