Twice in two years California appellate courts have addressed the proper construction of Probate Code Section 859 on the award...

Compliance concerns and governmental interest in prosecuting bribery and corruption remain high — yet compliance leaders have ...

The White House recently issued its proposed 2021 budget that seeks, among other things, to stop wasteful and unnecessary spen...

On Monday, Chief Judge Virginia Phillips of the Central District of California, declared a judicial emergency to suspend the S...

Six days after Gov. Newsom declared a state of emergency, the LA Alliance for Human Rights, a coalition of business interests ...

When you’re barely old enough to buy beer, estate planning in typical times and for the typical person is not going to be top ...

President Donald Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act, aka the CARES Act, into law on March 27. T...

Free markets. Fewer regulations. Less government. After the COVID-19 pandemic, conservatives should be hard pressed to utter ...

As tax filing season grows closer, more than a few of us are dusting off our records and trying to face facts. Whether you pre...

As cities and states now in lockdown struggle to determine if construction in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic is an essenti...

The Internal Revenue Service, like the rest of society, is struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic. It has closed some of its se...

The present public health emergency presents a unique challenge to estate planning attorneys whose clients wish to execute a w...

“Direct-to-consumer” telehealth offerings have garnered significant attention in recent years, as patients seek real-time, on-...

Franchise systems in all industries would be well served to proactively adapt their systems to allow franchisees to provide s...

On Monday, the California Supreme Court addressed a question that has been hotly debated around the country in litigation that...

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), includes tax credit provisions designed to encourage emplo...

Whose appeal is this anyway? Conventional wisdom is that an appeal “belongs” to the appellant. The appellant created the appea...

Imagine you’re a pregnant teenager, you’re incarcerated, and you have no control over your daily life. Now, you wake up inside...

Correctional health experts have made clear that flattening the curve also requires significantly depopulating prisons, jails,...

Millions are dealing with a sudden loss of income. Among these millions scrambling to figure out how to make ends meet are tho...

The first year of law school is exciting for anyone who likes to think. Many students experience what I experienced: you reali...

As a matter of state law, animal shelters can and should continue their operations in order to protect public health and safet...

The COVID-19 outbreak has impacted the manufacturing, transportation and supply chains underpinning countless aspects of trade...

Picking up where we left off last column, the conversation continues between the old-timer (me) and my young associate (“YA”) ...

Now I know what it’s like. I am under house arrest. Yes, I know I am not the only one. But I have a probation officer. Her nam...

The unprecedented $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, aka the CARES Act, is the largest emergenc...

California has enacted a number of laws to curb violence at home, in the workplace, schools and elsewhere. These laws provide ...

What’s going to happen to the current and anticipated litigation during this stay home period?

The San Francisco Police Department is moving too slowly in implementing collaborative changes aimed at stamping out racial di...

As a teacher, I have realized students have different assumptions now. I am sure it is an actual difference in attitudes towar...