Our participation in the modern version of this great experiment in democracy demands that we communicate with one another, wi...

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Due to the current state of the law, employment attorneys are usually powerless to help.

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Ohio v. American Express may have far-reaching implications beyond the credit card industry.

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Pop-up shops are here to stay; the following is a list of characteristics that should be considered by a landlord interested i...

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Sophisticated business owners and their counsel should consider alternatives to the usual pattern of negotiating term sheets.

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On July 16, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 3247. The bill, authored by the Assembly Committee on the Judiciary, amends ...

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In a trio of cases from the recently concluded October 2017 term, the U.S. Supreme Court decided national issues widely report...

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After waiting a little over two years, California employers finally got an answer to the question of whether the Fair Labor St...

A new law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown that effectively turns all the superior courts in the state into mental health courts, an...

New York attorney Michael Cohen made headlines again after revealing that he secretly recorded conversations between himself a...

The settlement agreement between Stormy Daniels and President Trump is far from ordinary. It contains an assignment of copyrig...

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