If we continue to "kick the can down the road," we do so at our own peril: Budgets could be slashed, services curtailed and ta...

On an unacceptable phenomenon and a brief encounter in the air.

Know and understand the Southern California deposition stipulation to project experience and protect your clients. By Davi...

Shortly after the major Equifax hack, the SEC and Department of Justice opened insider trading investigations based on allegat...

A recent Delaware Court of Chancery decision serves as a good reminder regarding best practices and current laws when Californ...

Some things cannot be unseen. Last term, the U.S. Supreme Court held that judges could -- and, indeed, must -- open their eyes...

Last week, Nissan added its name to a long list of automotive manufacturers who have been ensnared in public controversy over ...

California judges presiding over civil trials often restrict jury selection in contravention of the law pertaining to this cri...

On Sept. 29, the SEC issued its first civil complaint against two companies and their founder for violating anti-fraud and re...

As Justice Breyer intimated, a Supreme Court decision allowing employer prohibitions on employee class actions would "overturn...

Wouldn't it be nice to have everything one needs to know collected in one place? Enter "Business and Commercial Litigation in...

A federal judge recently held that portions of the city of Newton, Massachusetts's ordinance attempting to regulate unmanned a...

Contracting parties might agree to a forum selection clause for any number of reasons: to ensure favorable legal precedent, to...

The U.S. Supreme Court described laws that empower unions to coerce funds from non-union members as an “extraordinary state en...

There is a cost to be paid for the myriad benefits society derives from the use of algorithms. An occasional “date from hell,”...

So here’s where we are in Masterpiece Cakeshop: The lineup of eight of the justices is pretty clear, 4-to-4.

A city manager’s personal cellphone buzzes in the early morning hours with notice of a string of urgent texts advising about t...

Chairman Jay Clayton of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has reaffirmed that “[c]ybersecurity is an area that is vi...

The justices should take up U.S. v. Nosal to clarify the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act -- the statute was intended...

Carpenter v. United States implicates what is known as the third-party doctrine, under which any information voluntarily provi...

Over the summer, Oregon federal public defenders asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review Mohamud v. United States, a terrorism ...

A primer on how the attorney-client privilege functions in the realm of trust administration. By Benjamin D. Fox

Two recent amendments have important practical implications for private corporations and create a framework for significant ch...

When a class action litigant seeks to discover contact information for a third party--often with respect to potential class me...

At a recent business lunch, I was surprised to hear that many attendees (most of whom are practicing attorneys) pay their chil...

Time will tell what a recent state high court decision means for local taxation. But it appears to make it easier to pass loca...

Choosing the right name for your company from a branding perspective is important. Equally important, however, is avoiding a n...

While fully autonomous “level 5” vehicles are still some time out, scores of automakers are already introducing level 2 (parti...

For years, complex civil matters in Riverside County were somewhat randomly distributed to departments throughout the county.

The U.S. Supreme Court has a chance to set things right by granting certiorari in a case involving California’s commercial fis...