Parties sometimes choose to secure a settlement payment by linking it to a specific future source of funds. If so, counsel sho...

Pushing back on federal agencies’ attempts to immunize themselves from subpoenas

One of the best things I have ever done to establish credibility in jury selection is to memorize all of the names in the pros...

The U.S. Supreme Court forecasts a devolution of power to the state legislatures as the vehicles of democracy, which assumes t...

There may not have been a Brown Act violation, but the illegally-recorded conversation could lead to possible challenges to la...

The latest state to leap further into pay transparency legislation is California, traditionally a bellwether for progressive e...

When responding to public records requests public agencies and attorneys alike are forced to address competing fundamental int...

Law schools and bar associations don’t accurately track the numbers of students and lawyers with disabilities, and the stigma ...

Protecting All Species Under the Fish and Game Code

Rarely have Joe Biden and Clarence Thomas agreed upon anything. But their mutual recognition that something must be done to li...

Arbitration is a private hearing and has the advantage of keeping the proceedings confidential, which can be crucial when deal...

For better or worse virtual hearings have become the norm in administrative and regulatory trials and there are no signs of it...

When a drug house burdens a community, an enforcement agency should explore Drug Abatement/Red Light Abatement Actions.

America treats over 3.5 million American citizens living in its territories as stepchildren – denying them representation in C...

Companies that market expressive works should avoid relying on anti-SLAPP to protect promotional claims and should be mindful ...

The Onion’s brief can fairly be described as a parody of a Supreme Court brief. Reading it raises the interesting question tha...

With backup withholding, when you file your tax return you are trying to get the IRS and the FTB to apply the withheld money t...

California’s Family Law Courts are quietly changing how they serve divorcing couples and their families. Here’s an easy fix.

Employees who are monitored at their computers report feeling compelled to hit the keys just to register activity, while wareh...

Over the last year, harassers, predators, and thoughtless co-workers alike have found their way into communicating their inapp...

Sending a personal manager to the Labor Commissioner for procuring employment for an artist is like sending someone to traffic...

As new technology develops, it seems that the requirement of human expression, whether in creating an original work or transfo...

Automated time entry and billing have replaced old billing techniques like timeslips and repetitive time review with computer-...

A preliminary hearing provides important tools, sometimes overlooked, for an aggressive defense approach before trial.

At times those techniques seemed counterintuitive to litigators like me, but I can tell you from personal experience, what Mr....

It is too soon to celebrate. Bureaucratic challenges associated with insurance rate changes will delay implementation of the n...

What we don’t know yet is what other birth defects or conditions will develop in the children of parents who were exposed to t...

The legal community has lost another giant.

It’s not over yet, but 2022 already has proven to be another blockbuster year for trade secret litigation. Between big verdict...