A key for California businesses to get an advantage in the highly competive and inceasingly global post-COVID economic era is ...

For the past 15 years, California journalist Garrett Therolf has filed some 40 petitions unsealing juvenile case files reveali...

Although the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act made it harder for patent holders to sue multiple, unrelated defendants for paten...

The 9th Circuit vacated the defendant’s convictions for two counts of assault, while affirming her conviction for making false...

The decision of a federal court in San Diego to strike down the California ban on assault weapons is one of the most extreme g...

When a long-term personal or business relationship sours, exiting that relationship isn’t easy. Lasting agreements cannot be r...

The lawsuit alleges that users are not informed or asked for consent to have their activities and personal information are cap...

Attorneys are expected to be zealous in the pursuit of justice for their clients. There is though a limit to this ardent goal,...

During the height of the pandemic, amidst tremendous uncertainty in terms of both health and business, a wait-and-see environm...

The Biden administration's so-called "Green Book" has nothing to do with the environment, and everything to do with taxes, or ...

COVID-19 restrictions required adaption in all walks of life, particularly in public forums. The justice system learned to ada...

Some decisions of the 1849 California Constitutional Convention still have relevance

District Attorney George Gascón was elected on promises that he would reform and reshape the justice system in Los Angeles, th...

Hours after President Joe Biden “strongly supported” moving Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game from Georgia, the league com...

Developers who were hoping for an expansion of opportunity zones recently got some disappointing news.

The following question was posed during a roundtable discussion: “What steps can a court take when it determines that a self-r...

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down its first substantive interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act on June 3 in Van B...

Last summer, the National Labor Relations Board asked for public input as to whether it should rescind, modify or simply retai...

Lawyers craft legal arguments for their court cases. AI-based legal reasoning systems will be able to assist in such efforts a...

The Treasury Department is expected to publish new rules to say that businesses that receive crypto worth more than $10,000 wo...

The House of Representatives recently passed the Insider Trading Prohibition Act, a bill that, if passed by the Senate, would ...

With rare exceptions, such as a need to discuss administrative matters, an ex parte communication between an arbitrator and at...

There once was a time when Angelenos with the misfortune of ending up in a car crash could at the very least count on an offic...

We need strong governing policies for FGG in order to safeguard the privacy of third-party individuals who are found to have a...

Lately I’ve been thinking about judges searching for anonymity when taking a beating by a “higher” court.

One day, back when I was a budding law professor, my phone rang. “Hi. I’m Don Jelinek. I just arrived in the Bay Area from the...

That's the lesson of a few recent appellate decisions.

The South Coast Air Quality Management District recently adopted a first-of-its-kind “indirect source rule” that makes owners ...

“Going Dutch” now may mean increased corporate liability for climate change impacts after a Dutch court found that Royal Dutch...

A review of two recent books examining the origins of some of today’s firearms.