The 2016 Defend Trade Secrets Act grants immunity from trade secret liability to anyone who discloses a trade secret to an att...

Here are five key steps to a productive and successful mediation.

California is one of a mere handful of states — along with Arizona, Colorado, Florida and Idaho — that grants a “death discoun...

For today’s senior citizens, relying on a neighbor’s help could be less safe than you’d think, especially in large metropolita...

California taxes are high, and if you are a very high income earner, they could go up. California legislators have proposed ta...

Law offices across the nation are facing an eagerly awaited, though complex, decision: whether, and how soon, to reopen their ...

We have been getting a lot of calls recently as you might expect from distressed small businesses. The “free” government money...

Seems like everyone knows about the seemingly astute advice to never bring a knife to a gunfight. A bit of myth-busting can sh...

In a proposal to reverse a misguided Trump administration policy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is on track to rest...

Like prior government efforts, the executive order does not directly impose cybersecurity measures on private companies, but i...

The recent predominance of mediations has obvious benefits and drawbacks to litigants in any civil case. But the impact on vic...

The Daily Journal’s recent profile of Court of Appeal Justice Jim Richman did not mention his most admirable judicial trait: H...

Two recent death penalty appeals highlight the difficult standard criminal defendants face on appeal to demonstrate that the p...

The recently reported mega attorney fees in the mega NRA and Boy Scout Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases made me think of the end of...

With oral arguments done in the Supreme Court for this term, what is left is waiting for its rulings. The court heard argument...

Assume you bought a vacant parcel of land in an area built out with single family homes. Assume further that this is a coastal...

There is a persuasive argument not only that all lawyers should make the time for pro bono work, but there is an ethical respo...

For nearly a decade, there has been a groundswell of cultural and social movements seeking to rectify racial injustice, largel...

When seeking high court review, get people and institutions affected by the Court of Appeal opinion to tell the Supreme Court ...

Books this good do not necessarily move rapidly to conclusions.

My friend Cruz Reynoso, the first Latino to serve on the California Supreme Court, passed away with dignity this past week at ...

The boom days of consumer legal services may be here. And they aren’t coming for lawyers.

A case on the court’s docket for the 2021 term raises potentially far-reaching constitutional issues with obvious implications...

The State Bar of California’s sale of its ethics examination to the National Conference of Bar Examiners in 1980 and its deleg...

Frankly, a decision like Grabowski is long overdue in finding that improper ex parte communications in arbitration can no long...

The Court of Appeal’s ruling on this issue gives attorneys a monopoly over the entire process of negotiating — the drafting, r...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently considered whether the Natural Gas Act delegates the federal government’s eminent domain power...

Times are different now, really different.

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Damages are the end-game for contingency fee lawyers who are typically paid 40% of the total recovery in a personal injury law...