Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón’s policies have resulted in dangerous individuals being released from custody and ...

Avoiding the common pitfalls set below will help the court and its staff address as many litigants as possible.

We often refer to abstract topics by referring to our sensory capacities, such as claiming that something stinks or smells, ev...

Beware: Higher-tiered parties on a construction project can be liable for interference with contract even if they have a socia...

Recently the U.S. Supreme Court granted review in its first environmental cases of the court’s current term; they focus on the...

Investor demand for environmental, social and governance, commonly referred to as “ESG,” investment opportunities has surged w...

To paraphrase “Hamlet,” “Separated, or not separated — that is the question” The date of separation is legally the date of the...

The bill embodies a new, more just approach in which government initiates and completes the process for reducing, dismissing, ...

The 9th Circuit recently created a circuit split regarding the private search exception to the Fourth Amendment and government...

This past summer, President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. This executi...

This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that plaintiffs must suffer concrete harm to have standing to recover for a statutor...

Commercial trucking litigation is complex. The complexities of the collision, the extent of the injury, the intricacies of the...

Most litigated matters involve reviewing electronically stored information that amounts to the digital equivalent of not just ...

We are already seeing crypto audits by the IRS and some states (notably California’s Franchise Tax Board), and more are sure t...

In recent years, many cases involving allegations of high-profile financial crimes have also involved the accused's lawyers, w...

Drought, wildfires and "bomb-cyclone" rains are dramatic examples of how climate change affects our state. The proposed soluti...

Our jurists and elected officials would do well to heed Andrew Hamilton's summation nearly three centuries ago, which Founding...

Hard to believe it is November and our fully remote jury trial is still ongoing. We have experienced all the phases of COVID-1...

It took seven decades to open the first tiny crack in the Feres doctrine dam. What remains to be seen is how lawyers will be a...

Section 104 of the Internal Revenue Code shields damages for personal physical injuries and physical sickness from taxes, but ...

Lawyers need to mindfully consider what they don’t know, even when they do not explicitly realize they are unknowing. The idea...

The access to justice crisis in California, and throughout the United States, is both real and large. It spans across multiple...

California courts have continued to issue groundbreaking wage and hour decisions that have dramatically changed the legal land...

As the name implies, the False Claims Act in the health care sector prohibits workers from submitting fraudulent claims. In ot...

Congress recently floated a proposal to halve the estate and gift tax exclusion, effective January 1. As of this writing, this...

Website accessibility claims have been around for some time. However, they have been rapidly trending upward following the ris...

The current spate of headlines about Biden’s inability to advance his agenda seems odd to any political realist. Who would bel...

Apart from the substantive law, there’s a valuable lesson in a recent 9th Circuit ruling about citing unpublished decisions.

Beginning next year, a new state securities law will significantly reduce the out-of-pocket cost of raising up to $300,000 in ...