A primer on Penal Code Section 1001.36, enacted in 2018, which permits a court to order pretrial diversion for clients with ce...

The recent $137 million jury verdict against Tesla in a racial discrimination case brought by Owen Diaz, a former African-Amer...

A California jury last month handed down what has been reported to be the first antitrust jury verdict involving the cannabis ...

Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee issued an interim staff report on the use of the DOJ by Donald Trump and his allies.

In August, a trial court in Alameda County invalidated Proposition 22 — a statutory voter initiative that classified many app-...

A pair of 9th Circuit cases will examine what the Constitution requires Congress to do when confronted with the present-day ef...

There are a veritable plethora of computer-based natural language processing systems these days, such as the widely popular Al...

Over a century ago, the Legal Realists exploded the myth that judges can mechanically apply the law without making value choic...

The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers adopted a resolution last November opposing the nonlawyer ownership of law firms a...

Andreessen Horowitz recently announced its new $400 million seed fund to serve startup founders at the earliest stages of comp...

This article discusses the “nuts and bolts” for merging two California nonprofit public benefit corporations. Typical reasons ...

Last week, the Congressional Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy issued a scathing report.

How legal settlements are taxed often surprises people, including many plaintiffs. Most things are taxed, but there is often f...

I had worked hard, I was ready to go, fully prepped, and engaged trial mode for the first time in my career. And then lost.

As wide-ranging as the practice of law is, so too is the range of potential legal malpractice claims. But, at their core, many...

Construction defect cases often involve damage claims beyond simply the cost to repair the allegedly defective unit or compone...

An Americans with Disabilities Act web-access case went to trial and the result rested on a creative and legally accurate jury...

Bradley Wallace’s Oct. 5 opinion piece, “Could law firms run by VC’s and big corps become reality?” contains inaccuracies that...

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón’s focus is not on prosecuting crimes, but on resentencing defendants who were conv...

There is an ongoing hiring spree to snag up legal engineers. This is a relatively new role in the legal profession. The idea i...

Enforcing trade secret laws against international misappropriators is becoming more and more important, as trade secrets incre...

Trade secret claims, often an afterthought for some IP litigators and their clients, have come to the forefront of IP litigati...

The Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal is well-documented, and its impact on Major League Baseball is just beginning to be ...

Timing can be crucial when it comes to discovery in trade secrets cases. At one end of the spectrum, discovery might be permit...

In his Sept. 23 column, American Bar Association President Reginald Turner urges Congress to act to relieve the current studen...

You’ve been arrested and charged with a crime. You’ve been denied pretrial release, and you don’t have the money for bail. So ...

Last month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Central District Judge David O. Carter’s sweeping mandatory injunct...

Three recent 9th Circuit rulings held that business income and extra expense losses incurred following business closures order...

In recent years, the decades-long rule barring nonlawyers from having an ownership stake in law firms has been reversed in Ari...

There are many ways to answer the question of whether the drug wars are racist, and all of them are “yes.” In California, spec...