Some have wondered whether the factors considered in the Public Safety Assessment bail program in San Francisco produce uninte...
The past five years have witnessed significant developments in the remedies available under ERISA, including a 9th Circuit dec...
Last week, the 9th Circuit shut down an attempt to close Hawaii's current open partisan primary system. By Jeff Marston ...
Labor/Employment, U.S. Supreme Court
Ding, dong the Witch is dying
By Eric B. Kingsley
The ongoing fight by the Chamber of Commerce and powerful business interests to deny employees the right to bring collective c...
Insurance, Civil Litigation
Settlement offers might not preclude bad faith
By Michael S. Gehrt
A recent Court of Appeal decision confirms that a timely policy limits settlement offer does not automatically insulate an ins...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Bad client review getting you down?
By Heather L. Rosing, Betsy S. Kimball
Here, we discuss not what your can or should do about a bad client review -- rather, we focus on what ma...
Lawyers contemplating going solo should assess their personalities to see if the lifestyle and day-to-day reality is a good fit.
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Privileges get complicated in sexual harassment investigations
By Stephen L. Ramazzini
The attorney-client privilege isn't cut and dried when it comes to sexual harassment investigations. By Stephen L. Ramazzini ...
The IRS just made it worse for married people and better for single people. If two unmarried people own a home, they get doubl...
Those of us who would prefer to sip and nosh blissfully calorie-unaware are in for bad news — the FDA will be raining nutritio...
Mergers & Acquisitions
California courts may look closer at M&A litigation settlements
By Keola Whittaker
Following a decision by the Delaware Court of Chancery earlier this year, some predicted a rush out of Delaware to other juris...
Games like Pokémon GO are forcing us to step into the unexplored territory of ownership of virtual reality — something that is...
Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions
Startups need to pay more attention to founder stock
By Murray A. Indick, Jonathan O'Connell
Inadequate attention to founder stock and seed investments can lead to greater legal and tax expense, adversely affect new emp...
The Drumpfs' story reminds us that Alexander Hamilton was not a great founder of our nation in spite of his immigrant backgrou...
The system for resolving domain-name disputes is unique in that it gives the complainant the unilateral ability to choose the ...
Last week, the California Supreme Court answered two questions relating to the valuation of a strip of land condemned for road...
Constitutional Law, Government, Health Care & Hospital Law
Condom initiative isn't a 'safe sex' law
By Karen F. Tynan
Proposition 60 is censorship in the guise of regulation and establishes a private right of action which could leave producers,...
The relative scarcity of female partners in law firms is due to firms' structure and culture — how they are organized and how ...
Regulations and litigation relating to tobacco and tobacco products had its initiation in the second half of the 20th century ...
Litigation
For whom the 'death knell doctrine' tolls in state courts
By Zareh Jaltorossian
Despite the Legislature's attempts to eliminate uncertainty regarding questions of appealability, a recent decision from the 1...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Labor/Employment, U.S. Supreme Court
Banning beards at work could get a little hairy
By Nathan J. Kowalski, Irma Rodriguez Moisa
The question of whether private companies or public entities may prohibit their employees from wearing beards is somewhat of a...
Perspective
Unce more unto the breach: Court revisits preemption in labor cases
By Harold M. Brody
On Aug. 9, the 9th Circuit considered whether Section 301 of the federal Labor Management Relations Act preempted various stat...
The Supreme Court recently decided that an anti-SLAPP motion may be brought against the portion of a mixed cause action that a...
When we receive documents such as court rulings, opposing briefs or contract drafts and lack sufficient time to form a reliabl...
SB 443 will not have a major impact on the forfeiture landscape because the federal government has already fixed the "loophole...
Despite the outcome of a recent 9th Circuit ruling, Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain cautioned that Congress could do an about-face ...
Athletes get $25,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze. Fortunately, the value of the medals themselves is n...
As the elder care industry has increasingly faced significant liability arising out of elder abuse claims and class action sta...
A Chapter 7 corporate bankruptcy petition may be a quick, proactive means of ending litigation and collection actions against ...
FIRM ADVICE: Law firms dealing with impaired attorneys face conflicting obligations. By Jeffrey D. Polsky ...