In the wake of increasing financial volatility, internal company scandals and difficulties associated with meeting performance...

Many liability policies require the satisfaction of a designated dollar amount, usually described as a “self-insured retention...

The fast-paced litigation surrounding the travel ban provides some takeaways about Supreme Court practice.

Advocates for a religious scruples exception to the Colorado law at issue in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case ignore the lost lib...

The Supreme Court should use the Masterpiece Cakeshop case to bring clarity to the collision of rights public accommodation la...

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

The objective of this article and self-study test is to familiarize bench officers and attorneys with awards of attorney fees ...

Attorneys should weigh cyber threats more heavily when accounting for risk in contracts and in advising their clients

A recent article by Mr. Thomas M. Hall, “Our Flawed Millennial Founders,” begins by noting that our Founding Fathers included ...

In Jesner v. Arab Bank, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether the Alien Tort Statute can be invoked against corporate d...

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

If the constitutional guarantee of equal protection is to mean anything, then no child should face a different standard of law...

Tell the truth or face the consequences. For Foot Locker Retail Inc., the consequences are to pay employees $180 million. That...

Last year, the California Supreme Court signaled, for the first time, that some confidential communications may somehow lose t...

Many suspect Gill v. Whitford may be one of the reasons Justice Anthony Kennedy decided to remain on the bench — it would give...

In each of three cases — Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis; Ernst & Young v. Morris and NLRB v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc. — an employ...

In Artis v. District of Columbia, the U.S. Supreme Court will get a chance to clarify a federal statute of limitations law gov...

Do you carry a cellphone? If so, the U.S. Supreme Court is about to decide a case that could affect your privacy rights: Carpe...

Even if the court is unwilling to hold that the FAA trumps the NLRA in a series of consolidated cases — Epic Systems Corp. v. ...

An opinion by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals just gave us the next chapter in a tumultuous saga surrounding California'...

After working hard to bring in a new client or a new matter, many attorneys find it difficult to accept the possibility of los...

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

How should the 9th Circuit decide the Rapanos/Marks/Davis issues in Robertson? It should recognize that Davis’s implicit-conse...

A little before our recent H-bomb dustups with Kim Jong Un, we suffered an attack, if not a small war, with the mysterious lea...

The Fair Credit Reporting Act does not require the same level of privacy and security measures by credit bureaus as it does of...

This will be the first major data breach case to address the implications of standing that resulted from the Supreme Court’s d...

Not long ago, the California Supreme Court came down with a rather strange decision. What was strange was not the holding, but...

In its October term, the U.S. Supreme Court will revisit whether the collective bargaining provisions of NLRA prohibit enforc...