MFAs are a great way for lawyers to resolve fee disputes and avoid malpractice claims and State Bar complaints.

A recent Supreme Court case striking down a law as unconstitutionally vague has quickly become the most frequently cited case ...

Pennsylvania's Allegheny County District Attorney's Office apparently paid a bitcoin ransom to protect the privacy of its own ...

In 2010 and 2012, the San Diego County Water Authority filed lawsuits challenging rates charged by the Metropolitan Water Dist...

The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement recently provided guidance on the tricky subject of calculating paid sick leave fo...

The Eastern District recently decided that California law supports combining the limits of consecutive policies if the occurre...

Recently, the 5th Circuit weighed in on the ongoing debate surrounding the scope of computer-fraud coverage for a phishing sca...

In a recent ruling, the court became the first appellate court to consider whether the "Barton doctrine" applies to s...

While the apparel industry has been aflutter as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs the protection the Copyright Act affords the gra...

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a highly anticipated insider trading decision, the first time the court has addresse...

Patent damages, no longer the sleepy sister to the hustle and bustle of patent infringement and validity, requires thorough pr...

Subject matter eligibility is a central patent law issue affecting a wide range of technologies. Yet the sprawling nature of t...

The California Supreme Court recently held that when both the listing agent and the selling agent are employees of the same br...

One cannot know whether President-elect Donald Trump was aware of the singular importance of the "One China Policy" when he re...

More interesting than the court throwing out a plea deal agreed to by the prosecution and the defense was the judge's decision...

A recent warning from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen in her congressional testimony provides a good enough reason to begin...

The rule is deceptively simple: If a person suddenly becomes ill while driving and is unable to control their vehicle as a res...

Common documentation mistakes made when raising startup capital during early seed financing becomes particularly problematic w...

SAFEs ("Simple Agreement for Future Equity") and KISSs ("Keep It Simple Security") are investment securities which, like conve...

Code enforcement, an often misunderstood part of city government, can quietly but greatly improve the lives of its residents, ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration classifies texting and driving as six times more dangerous than drinking an...

A federal district court has ordered that Coinbase Inc. should turn over its customer account information to the government.

California's die-hard football fans may be wondering: When a sports team moves to a different city, do its season ticket holde...

The fast and furious words of President-elect Donald Trump give cause for concern about whether his administration will preser...

On Wednesday, the California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case deciding whether messages on private devices and...

San Diego County Judge James A. Mangione tries to encourage young defendants in his court.

The issue before the court was whether traditional negligence liability claims should include "household members" who had no d...

The California Supreme Court recently held that salespeople, working on behalf of a real estate broker acting as a dual agent,...

Slashing syllables, cutting commas and weighing words — in other words, picking nits — is what makes one a professional appell...

OK, so the Earth is not flat. But do we really get heat from the Sun? Hear me out. By David M. Balabanian ...