Why is it so important to allow these people to pray on government property while on the government payroll? Is there a shorta...
Contracts, Labor/Employment, Litigation & Arbitration
Legislature may curtail arbitrability of contract claims
By Muhammed T. Hussain
It seems that Congress and various state legislatures are looking at curtailing this expansion of arbitrability, specifically ...
Extremism in the military and among veterans
By Eileen C. Moore
While extremist activity and white supremacy is banned, there are limits on the military’s ability to surveil the activities o...
Pay no tax when you sell your home
By Bruce Givner, Owen Kaye
There are several ways to reduce, defer or eliminate the tax on the sale of your valuable personal residence. The more time yo...
Stream it Tonight! Woman In Gold (2015)
By Michael Asimow, Paul Bergman
You’ll love the inspiring story of lawyer Randol Schoenberg, the grandson of the great modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg an...
Digital asset regulation is as complicated as the technology itself
By Timothy Spangler
The more you learn about the underlying technology and begin to see the scale for its deployment across industries, the easier...
Under current California law, a woman only has to be present in the state and fleeing from domestic violence in order to seek ...
Appellate Practice, Labor/Employment, Law Practice
Addressing California’s justice gap via a pathway to licensure
By Claire M. Solot
It is time for California to recognize that clinging to an outdated methodology to license attorneys serves only one purpose: ...
Legal Education
Berkeley law competition puts students in the hot seat
By Spencer J. Pahlke
The competing schools include winners of every major national mock trial competition for the last two years, as well as the sc...
A trimmed down rendition of the original $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act, this legislation introduces significant new tax...
Constitutional Law, Litigation & Arbitration
Recent SCOTUS opinions on arbitration statutes
By Gary A. Watt, Patrick Burns
Absent truly ambiguous text, public policy arguments appear to be taking on a diminishing role. Then again, so has stare decisis.
Environmental & Energy, Government, Land Use
Oil and gas and cities – Oh, my!
By Michael M. Berger
Everything is big in Texas. So the stakes were high. Trinity’s appraiser testified that, before the permit denial, the fair ma...
With the recent filings against California businesses alleging multiple violations of equal employment opportunity laws protec...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Intellectual Property
Moderna fires first shot in COVID vaccine patent wars
By Dariush Adli
Moderna explains this apparent about-face by pointing out that it refrained from asserting its patents earlier so as not to in...
Many Americans failed at mining and began to look at business, farming and ranching as alternatives, but Bay Area and Sacramen...
Entertainment & Sports, Tax
IRS may compromise tax debts, even if you’re a celebrity
By Robert W. Wood
Arguably among the most satisfying of all bills to discount is your tax bill. You might well acknowledge that you owe the taxe...
Intellectual Property, Technology
Algorithms as trade secrets
By Randall E. Kay, Kristin Lahaszow
Why the New York Times and TikTok Are More Similar to Each Other Than You Think
Entertainment & Sports
Stream it Tonight! A Few Good Men (1992)
By Michael Asimow, Paul Bergman
In addition to providing superior entertainment, the movie shows how a writer (Aaron Sorkin) can use the courtroom format to s...
Entertainment & Sports, Intellectual Property
The year-end NIL playbook for lawyers
By Frank N. Darras
Cash upfront in exchange for a percentage of backend earnings is not a new concept, but since it is still in its infancy in co...
Government, Real Estate/Development
Challenges to adequate housing measures continue
By Jeffrey Carlin, Kathleen Hill
California has approved Los Angeles’s updated housing element addressing the City’s pervasive lack of adequate and affordable ...
A renaming exposes the school to “unknown and potentially enormous” financial risks. It also suddenly creates a law school wit...
Environmental & Energy, Government, Real Estate/Development
California’s environmental state agencies are converting CEQA’s anti-project Howitzer into a Neutron Bomb.
By Jennifer L. Hernandez
Take a sober look at California's worst-in-the-nation poverty rate and the shameful fact that the vast majority of our poor ar...
Appellate Practice, Law Practice
Seven practical tips for healthy companies that do business with not-so-healthy companies
By Robbin L. Itkin
While “cash is king” and it is beneficial to be paid by someone who owes you money, you must recognize that under certain circ...
Should AB 1936 pass and be signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, it will remove the taint of association with Serranus Hastings but...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Information about hazardous products shouldn’t be a secret
By Vineet Dubey
The reality is that most people never hear about deceitful marketing practices or other bad acts of companies that put out dan...
Data Privacy, Securities
Critics urge SEC to scale back cyberattack reporting to lesser California requirement
By Anita Taff-Rice
One of the most controversial parts of the SEC’s rules proposal is a requirement that companies report a cybersecurity inciden...
Democracy should be coveted for the equal opportunity it affords its citizens, but also for its track record of success.