For the most part, courts have functioned pretty much the same way for centuries, with lawyers, clients, witnesses, judges and...

“The simplest solution is most likely the right one.” This is the most common paraphrased version of English Franciscan friar ...

Only 26.8% of the candidates passed the February California bar exam. This is the lowest pass rate since 1951, when the bar st...

Up and down the state, judges, lawyers, court personnel and justice partners have been dedicating themselves to their mission ...

Amid the dark clouds of the ongoing pandemic, a silver lining has appeared for white collar defendants and their counsel, in t...

A major deficiency under the current whistleblower protections is the time-consuming litigation process subjecting aggrieved e...

The governor recently issued Executive Order N-51-20 which ordered private sector employers of more than 500 employees to prov...

As California communities return to work amidst the ongoing pandemic, landlords must consider how and when to reopen tradition...

Permitting employees to work remotely comes with its own special wage and hour considerations that must be addressed, especial...

Last week’s California Supreme Court decision in Nationwide Biweekly, although not a PAGA case, all but definitively settles t...

Never before have I so despaired for the rule of law in the United States. The decision of the U.S. Department of Justice to ...

In a May 1 ruling, the court threw out the players’ equal pay claims, leaving only a sliver of the case for trial.

On May 5, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with the City Attorneys for the cities of Los Angeles, San Diego a...

What Congress and the Small Business Association giveth, the IRS taketh away.

To mitigate the unprecedented financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, lenders are reviewing their existing loan portfolios...

In a case watched closely by environmental attorneys around the country, the U.S. Supreme Court solidified the EPA's authority...

While it’s not possible to cover all of the legal issues that nonprofits are currently facing in this one column, I’m focusing...

The California Supreme Court is conducting oral arguments by video conference during the pandemic. I argued two cases there on...

It is important that businesses enduring significant financial distress, even if the problems only arose as a result of fall-o...

The presiding judge for Los Angeles County Superior Court recently announced that a “ramp up” gradual resumption to business a...

On April 20, the U.S. Supreme Court held that courts may not review a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to institu...

On Wednesday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos finally made good on her promise to codify procedures that will provide a “consi...

For many attorneys used to the daily routine of going into the office, the pandemic has had a jarring impact on both their pro...

My prior columns on this topic suggested that a commercial tenant who fails to pay the rent because the corona virus undermine...

Can you imagine if the text of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion had no citations at all? You actually don’t have to.

The always forward-thinking New York City Bar Association has urged adoption of a humanitarian exception to its ethics rules t...

A book is about to be reissued — and I mean really reissued, 100,000 print copies — by the young Toronto writer Emily St. John...

The federal Paycheck Protection Program was meant to help small businesses keep their employees on payroll, and to pay utiliti...

This is the second part of my article on maximizing online platforms for success in arbitrations in the new normal of the Covi...