We are already seeing crypto audits by the IRS and some states (notably California’s Franchise Tax Board), and more are sure t...

In recent years, many cases involving allegations of high-profile financial crimes have also involved the accused's lawyers, w...

Drought, wildfires and "bomb-cyclone" rains are dramatic examples of how climate change affects our state. The proposed soluti...

Our jurists and elected officials would do well to heed Andrew Hamilton's summation nearly three centuries ago, which Founding...

Hard to believe it is November and our fully remote jury trial is still ongoing. We have experienced all the phases of COVID-1...

It took seven decades to open the first tiny crack in the Feres doctrine dam. What remains to be seen is how lawyers will be a...

Section 104 of the Internal Revenue Code shields damages for personal physical injuries and physical sickness from taxes, but ...

Lawyers need to mindfully consider what they don’t know, even when they do not explicitly realize they are unknowing. The idea...

The access to justice crisis in California, and throughout the United States, is both real and large. It spans across multiple...

California courts have continued to issue groundbreaking wage and hour decisions that have dramatically changed the legal land...

As the name implies, the False Claims Act in the health care sector prohibits workers from submitting fraudulent claims. In ot...

Congress recently floated a proposal to halve the estate and gift tax exclusion, effective January 1. As of this writing, this...

Website accessibility claims have been around for some time. However, they have been rapidly trending upward following the ris...

The current spate of headlines about Biden’s inability to advance his agenda seems odd to any political realist. Who would bel...

Apart from the substantive law, there’s a valuable lesson in a recent 9th Circuit ruling about citing unpublished decisions.

Beginning next year, a new state securities law will significantly reduce the out-of-pocket cost of raising up to $300,000 in ...

In recent months, there has been a marked increase in the number of decentralized autonomous organizations, known as DAOs, tha...

I am convinced there are other more pervasive causes of what I see as a troubling phenomenon, the students running the agenda.

In the aftermath of the October 21 shooting on the set of filming “Rust,” there are a few facts that we do know. But there is...

As part of the Biden administration's ongoing efforts to modernize and bolster the nation's cybersecurity practices, last mont...

This is the second installment of a 4-part (true) story that began with my last column.

California voters will likely have a chance in the November 2022 general election to enact a long-overdue consumer protection ...

Three decades later, has anything changed? The short answer: no really.

Our country has built a system of mass incarceration in the decades since Sirhan was arrested. In 1969, the year he was convic...

Starting Jan. 1, 2022, patients will no longer be at risk for one of the most detested practices in health care: surprise out-...

The 1928 collapse of the dam unleashed a flood that killed almost 500 people in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. It is regula...

My September column focused on how the extraordinarily funny litigation antics of six-weeks-since-passing-the-bar Vinny might ...

Danny Abir’s recent column unfairly characterizes an organization and individuals with a proven record in expanding access to ...

A recent ruling suggests that prior audits — even audits applying an appropriate legal standard — may be of limited usefulness...

On Oct. 8, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published for public comment an expansive 918-page notice of proposed rule...