The California Court of Appeal recently certified for publication a landmark wage and hour decision upholding the legality of ...

Victims of art theft, beware. If you think you know who stole your painting — even if you don’t know its whereabouts — don’t w...

In recent months, the California appellate courts have published a number of cases addressing the role of expert witness decla...

Broadly based legal challenges are possible. The president’s power to conduct foreign affairs does not give the executive cart...

If the attorney is appearing at mediation on behalf of his or her client, does the attorney sign the “as to form” line or the ...

Claims like those of individual drivers are exactly the types of claims that should be disposed through a process less formal ...

Bad actors don’t suddenly change their stripes because they were spoon-fed a few hours of mandatory training. So how do we cha...

As the saying goes, "bad facts make bad law." Add in an unartfully drafted statute, and you have Nielsen v. Preap, the latest ...

It’s time to plug this gaping hole in our motor vehicle laws.

A middle ground is possible for rent control, but this year’s initiative to repeal Costa-Hawkins does the opposite.

I have been pondering "commensurability," an important concept in law, after my diagnosis with a rare, serious autoimmune dise...

Unless an alarm sounds to immediately constrain Musk’s Neverland-like banter and play, the clock in the Croc will draw ever cl...

The 2nd Circuit's ruling in United States v. Hoskins may provide further encouragement for foreign individuals and entities to...

To ensure that a plea is "knowing and intelligent," criminal defense attorneys must tread carefully through the briar patch of...

Based on a recent ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, rock legends Robert Plant and Jimmy Page will return to a L...

This term the Supreme Court has a chance to overturn a decades-old decision that kept many property owners out of federal courts.

This term, the Supreme Court will consider whether, under the America Invents Act, a secret prior sale can invalidate a patent.

In a ruling heard ‘round the entertainment world, in August a superior court in Los Angeles said Johnny Depp’s oral contract w...

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. For years, law enforcement agencies, social service providers, non-gove...

The new Rule 5.5 modifies former Rule of Professional Conduct 1-300, titled “Unauthorized Practice of Law.”

On Sept. 14, the National Labor Relations Board proposed a rule to clarify the board’s position on this legal issue,

It does not always occur to attorneys to formally close the matter internally and to send a file closing letter to a client.

It’s surprising how often this sensible and cost-saving solution is overlooked.

The #MeToo movement and our changing culture have been the driving force behind new California laws that increase employers’ ...

While we normally only address signed bills that have become new law in California, there were quite a number of significant v...

Recent cases have highlighted the question as to what, if any, intellectual property rights do graffiti artists, who use build...

On Aug. 31, the American Bar Association gave Judge Brett Kavanaugh its highest rating of “Well Qualified” in connection with ...

Senate Bill 1300 finally eliminates the pass given to bad actors in the workplace that was rooted in the way the “severe or p...

Beginning on Jan. 1, 2020, the California IoT law will require that manufacturers of any device “capable of connecting to the ...