The city of Pasadena recently ordered a property owner to evict a tenant operating a cannabis dispensary within city limits. T...

Federal tax reform passed at year-end, but not everyone is happy. In fact, some states are not taking the changes lying down.

This week, the 51st rendition of the Consumer Electronics Show will rain down on the desert, Las Vegas style. Today the electr...

Ninth Circuit and the Department of Labor clarify when an intern is entitled to minimum wages and other employment benefits. ...

The presents I receive these days scare the hell out of me: "Alexa: How is the court to rule?"

As I discussed in my last column, there are plenty of books about how to write better. But what about reading? Who writes abou...

The Sessions memo will not stop the cannabis industry in its tracks -- there's too much momentum. But it will likely chill, if...

Since places will no doubt be friendlier to cannabis businesses than others, cannabis business operators should familiarize th...

Just as some judges are promoted within a judicial system, a judge will sometimes move from being a judge in one judicial syst...

The justices appear ready to narrow an anti-retaliation provision in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial law, which is aimed at crac...

In the final weeks of 2017, the appellate courts were busy handing down a few important family law decisions; covering militar...

Simply put, many insurers view engagement letters as an effective tool that firms can use to limit the risk of legal malpracti...

It sure looked as if contingent fee lawyers in California and the rest of the 9th Circuit were going to be prejudiced by the r...

It is too soon to make thoughtful decisions. We will have better ideas and more refined analyses in 30, and even 60, days. The...

Whether it's a new tax bill, an outbreak of the Ebola virus, the threat of Russian expansion into the Baltic States or the re...

Family law attorneys, accountants and courts will be busy figuring out how to address child and spousal support issues for the...

Jack Walker's powerful, insightful and moving "Eye Corps: Coming of Age at the DMZ," details his experiences as a recon patr...

Careful IP planning is especially important in the life sciences, in which companies often rely on only a handful of patents t...

As California firefighters battle the Santa Barbara blaze, their pension rights are under fire in the courtroom.

Conclusion: ideas have consequences, and as this saga illustrates, by and large things are what they appear to be.

Welcome to Exceptionally Appealing, a new monthly column devoted to exploring exceptions to general rules and procedures in ap...

High school journalism has been losing ground since the 1970s due to education budget cuts -- and rulings of the U.S. Supreme ...

Absent a certain protected activity or status, there is no effective recourse for the abused or harassed employee under state ...

A recent article by Professor Aaron Tang, "Hey, Courts: Don't be so quick to ignore political power," unabashedly advocates fo...

Many a bitcoin millionaire may be thinking like their forefathers did holding low basis stock in Microsoft, Intel or Starbucks...

The State Bar Court Review Department issued a range of attorney discipline opinions this year. As usual, the most common comp...

The 9th Circuit just published an opinion that successfully weaves immigration law and eminent domain law into a coherent whole.

There was a continued push-and-pull between the U.S. Supreme Court and state courts over the FAA.

This year we essentially marked the end of 20 years of an unregulated market and unpredictable legal environment for medicinal...

Over 7,000 inter partes review petitions have been filed since 2012, approximately 1,600 of which are currently pending before...