Over the past year, I have written about myriad litigation-related topics — yet, I have never written about the litigants them...

For countless law enforcement agencies, the scope of disclosures they are legally required to make often turns on what constit...

When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Senate Bill 98, media groups hailed its passage and reported that it “exempts media professi...

Trial lawyers juggle many balls at once — and the balls keep changing as the case moves along. Appellants’ lawyers are on a di...

With the threat of COVID not entirely behind us yet, it’s crucial now more than ever to embrace the changes the pandemic has b...

Tax audits are unnerving and can be expensive. Even if you end up with the coveted “no change” letter that is the stuff of leg...

Last month, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. On Monday, the Senate Judicia...

While the factual circumstances underlying COVID-19 negligence lawsuits may be as novel as the virus itself and often present ...

Along with all the other social impacts, the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reshaped the workplace and much of employment...

Under Article IX, section 9, the Legislature has no authority to rename the college, and that constitutional provision more br...

Though a fair amount of uncertainty remains about the timing and final design of NEM 3.0, the critical question is whether sta...

Nearly 60 years after the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright, we still see public defender offices across t...

Recent changes in federal and state law that shrink the scope of arbitration and confidentiality clauses will affect how cases...

Let’s say a PAGA plaintiff has a past felony conviction for armed robbery or is going to be incarcerated during the pendency o...

I wish I could name two or three factors to look for, but alas, there isn’t a checklist or litmus test for identifying wrongfu...

Subrogation is commonly described as a legal device that allows one person to "step into the shoes" of another in relation to ...

Since 9/11, the circumstances in which agencies have wielded this doctrine have become increasingly less exceptional. A recent...

San Francisco’s District Attorney Chesa Boudin recently revealed that the city’s police department has a practice of saving DN...

It is clear that the PREP Act is meant to provide broad immunity, but few cases have examined the contours of that immunity — ...

A federal law signed by President Joe Biden on March 3 is changing the way sexual harassment and sexual assault cases are han...

This has probably never happened to you: The facts turn out to be very different than initially relayed by your client. Or a c...

The California Supreme Court has resolved — for now — one of the most hotly contested legal theories upon which borrowers have...

Study your rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act and California’s powerful Fair Employment and Housing Act, among o...

In the first week of March, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two decisions which expand the “state secrets privilege” and make it...

Notably, Assembly Bill 2289 isn’t an income tax at all; rather, it would be America’s first bona fide wealth tax.

In a landmark decision sure to have a significant impact on the real estate banking industry, the California Supreme Court dec...

Lawsuits filed by individuals with disabilities alleging they were denied access to a business’ goods or services due to acces...

If you settle a case on appeal and then ask the court to dismiss the case as moot, don’t be surprised, particularly where a de...

A recent decision is a helpful caution that the modification provisions of a trust must be carefully followed and that there i...

In "The Great Dissenter," Peter S. Canellos delves into Justice John Marshall Harlan's life experiences and judicial philosoph...