A recent appellate opinion addresses the statute of limitations on bringing an action under Business and Professions Code Sect...

I am optimistic that Supreme Court justices who read this column will take my advice and write shorter opinions.

With everyone sick of the pandemic, neighborhood boredom seems to have prompted early Halloween decorations. Following suit, l...

About six years ago, I retired from law professing — and launched my new law firm. I gathered into my fold several former app...

Lawyers, like everyone else, are capable of doing bad things. This is especially true when they are funding grotesque lifestyl...

What state taxes apply if you are stuck in California or another state during the pandemic? Do you pay taxes where you are she...

Mexican-Americans faced horrifying discrimination in this country. In her book “All For One & One For All,” author Amy Wat...

All nine justices return to the bench this week — the First Monday of October — when the U.S. Supreme Court gavels-in its new ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the White House conveyed, in an announcement on Sept. 20, that OSHA will...

Last month, the California State Bar published its “California Paraprofessional Program Working Group Report and Recommendatio...

The reason for the hearsay rule is simple enough to grasp: Hearsay evidence tends to be unreliable, because it’s not subject t...

In a landmark ruling, a divided court gave the green light for securities actions against companies that went public through d...

Over the past year, California courts have continued to reject PAGA waivers. But what is so unique about the nature of PAGA la...

A court reporter’s gavel-to-gavel account of a four-month Zoom trial during COVID

Last year, the federal government contracted with a wastewater analytics company for a nationwide study of wastewater in the U...

A few weeks ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two housing bills that make small, infill housing projects easier in California: Sen...

What happens when your adversary blames a higher power who is incapable of being deposed or responding to discovery?

As we all know, the enduring appeal of watching Vinny trying to navigate his way around a courtroom in a murder trial is the h...

A recent appellate court opinion that is now certified for publication resolves some open questions about how membership inte...

A split decision by a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal, upholding the validity of Assembly Bill 51 — the state la...

A recent trend is calling upon the legal arena to shift or transform from the outdated solidified ways of doing things to inst...

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a record number of false advertising food and beverage class actions cases were filed i...

During the period sometimes referred to as the Great Recession of 2007-09, the United States government became convinced that ...

On Sept. 9, the California Court of Appeal issued a significant decision of first impression that provides employers with a ra...

Imagine being a parent in the 1940s and 1950s. It’s a hot summer day, and your daughter wants to go to the neighborhood pool. ...

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted just about every industry and that impact initially resulted in an environment where risk asses...

An oft-repeated myth is that the Dodgers forsook their loyal Brooklyn fans and swooped into Los Angeles, literally bulldozing ...

The Leahy–Smith America Invents Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on Sept. 16, 2011. Wi...

Given the increasing and distressing polarization between left and right in this country, I have decided to do my very small p...

Recent court cases are testing the liability of companies and their directors for data breaches suffered by their vendors or s...