Too often those who seek to build a professional reputation forget about the passion that drove them to become an attorney in ...

In what has sent shockwaves through the employment law community, the California appellate court reversed the trial court's de...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court purported to resolve a long simmering ambiguity in the nation's copyright law, one that h...

Wage and hour litigation continues to pose a threat to employers, especially in California. There are many potential reasons f...

Twenty years post-Buss, there are some breaching insurers still arguing they do not owe as damages the fees and costs...

We are in the midst of arguably the greatest wealth transfer in the history of our country. While this is certainly an opportu...

WikiLeaks released disturbing information this month alleging that the CIA employs multiple types of technologies that allow a...

In his career and his jurisprudence, San Diego County Judge Timothy Taylor has a steady hand.

In Peña-Rodriguez, the Sixth Amendment was found supple enough to offer relief where a juror's racial bias is so egregious an...

Smaller circuits minimize outlier decisions in both directions. Why do I say this? For a very simple reason: math.

On March 15, five 9th Circuit judges dissented from an order denying en banc review in Washington v. Trump, the appellate deci...

In perhaps the final action of the 2016 presidential election, three individuals in Washington state were ordered this month t...

Last month, the MTC held a special meeting and voted to approve a resolution adopting the Model General Allocation and Apporti...

As you listen to the Gorsuch confirmation hearings, pay attention to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Republican Party of...

A close look at one of the bills that aims to counter the Trump administration's rollback of environmental laws reveals import...

My last column began an exploration into what one Court of Appeal called "the mysteries of the writs." The mysteries? How does...

San Diego Judge Harry Powazek's patient approach has served him well in several fields.

If we are constantly surrounded by people who are negative, how is it possible not to get infected by their attitude? Is it an...

A recent California Supreme Court decision might seem to be a simple opinion about the exclusion of undisclosed expert witness...

Tax preparers and tax advisers talk a lot about "disclosure." Tax people use the term as if it is something you sometimes have...

A labor of love of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been to give the wives of the U.S. Supreme Court justices their due credit in how t...

California is changing its approach to AVs with the release of new proposed regulations.

A recent decision out of Delaware provides clarity stockholders of a company contemplating a merger. ...

An opinion which raises concern among those weighing President Donald J. Trump's first U.S. Supreme Court nomination is one un...

Under what circumstances do the Constitution and case law allow warrantless searches of electronic devices owned by probatione...

No one wants to fight with the Internal Revenue Service or the California Franchise Tax Board. Both agencies audit, and both c...

With the softening of the standards required to revive abandoned patent applications, there may be implications concerning ine...

In its analysis under Alice, in a recent case the Federal Circuit distinguished the present case from Enfish and Bascom Global...

The interest in preserving the frank discussion of jurors should not protect the expression of bias we would not permit elsewh...

In this politically charged environment, it's good to review what exempt organizations can and cannot do. By Erin Bradrick ...