While the pandemic forced the legal industry out of its self-imposed doldrums, it is neither realistic nor desirable that all ...

On March 24, the 9th Circuit sitting en banc affirmed the district court’s dismissal of a Second Amendment lawsuit challenging...

A recent California Supreme Court ruling provides defense bar with powerful argument for pretrial release

On March 19, San Francisco Mayor London Breed signed the “COVID-Related Hazard Pay Ordinance.” The ordinance became effective ...

If ever there was any doubt, the summer of 2020 proved that covert and overt racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia and w...

A distinguished appellate lawyer recently filed an unusual disciplinary complaint against three justices of the 3rd District C...

Modern American litigation now features an increasing number of cases in which a prevailing party may by post-trial motion rec...

Should successful plaintiffs pay taxes on legal fees they never receive? It sounds like a silly question, especially in consum...

2020, the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, saw an unprecedented number of new FCA cases filed -- over 900.

As part of his administration’s efforts to mitigate the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis, President Joe Biden issued an executiv...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been especially tough on the restaurant industry — as of Dec. 1, 2020, more than 110,000 bars and re...

Amidst all of this, investors plowed capital into funds focused on environmental, social and/or governance, aka ESG, factors, ...

A recent piece in this august newspaper proposed abolishing the peremptory challenge to prospective jurors.

Ninety-nine years ago, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote for a near-unanimous Supreme Court that when government regula...

Appointments to the board that will lead the California Privacy Protection Agency include five individuals with deep backgroun...

Wednesday is the deadline for certain California employers to submit their annual report on pay, hours worked, and demographic...

Before gifting to foreign charities (through checks, credit cards or Venmo), consider that charitable giving outside this coun...

Court records are generally available to the public. That is, everything discussed in the case can be accessed and inspected b...

From a short list of highly qualified candidates, Gov. Gavin Newsom continues to reshape the political leadership of the state...

After three decades in practice, I have seen too many mentally ill and legally incompetent individuals languish in jails, whic...

For many of the planet’s 7.8 billion inhabitants, there will never be a world without COVID-19.

A dissent in a recent D.C. Circuit case challenges the continuing legitimacy of the infamous New York Times v. Sullivan Ruling.

On August 1, 1939, 250 state and local law enforcement officers, on a hodge-podge of boats, raided four gambling ships anchore...

The experience of managing a law firm during the 12-plus months since California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued his March 19, 2020, ...

A common mental trap entails thinking of the law and the practice of law in somewhat singular aspects as though crucial elemen...

From women’s rights champion Susan B. Anthony to historic athletes such as tennis great Serena Williams, the course of human h...

Can a federal court order deciding whether to compel arbitration be appealed? It depends.

The Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in a case that will decide whether allowing union organizers to enter an employer’...

The selection of antitrust scholar Lina Khan to join the Federal Trade Commission is the latest shot across the bow for the te...

The 9th Circuit has asked the California Supreme Court to address whether our Labor Code displaces the McDonnell Douglas burde...