The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency recently issued a proposed rule clarifying when a national bank is the ”true len...

November ballots in California will feature Prop. 15, which seeks to change California law to tax most commercial properties b...

Proposition 16 will end the ban on taking affirmative steps to ensure and actually provide equal access in public contracting,...

A key question in a recent case, and which the 9th Circuit had never answered before, was whether a trademark counterfeiting c...

Assembly Bill 685 further expands the obligations of California employers to disclose information regarding COVID-19 exposure ...

Last week, the Kern County Multicultural Bar Alliance held a panel addressing the important issue of the elimination of bias f...

With many tasks moved online, attorneys will face increased risk if they do not remain vigilant when it comes to protecting cl...

How to provide the authoritative information and guidance that parties need to resolve a dispute

The California State Bar’s Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct has issued a new formal opinion, 2020-203, tha...

When a lawyer and law firm receive third-party funding, the well-known professional duties to a client can easily become blurr...

After testing the waters with Senate Bill 826’s gender diversity mandate in 2018, California has now further committed public ...

Thirty-three states and the District of Columbia have recognized the importance of allowing access to medical cannabis. But ev...

Increasingly, our armed forces are imperiled by toxic hazards that have adverse effects on their health. Those who served in I...

In the wake of the tragic killing of Breonna Taylor by police in Louisville, Kentucky during service of a search warrant in a ...

On Sept. 23, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted certain amendments to the procedural requirements and resubmission...

This recently enacted federal legislation has dramatically changed estate planning for retirement benefits.

One burgeoning area of focus for legal scholars and LegalTech makers is legal judgment prediction. Efforts are underway to bol...

A victory for Oracle would outlaw devices and software used by millions every day, raise the price of product refills and repl...

If the court adopts a broad interpretation of an ATDS, businesses will surely face increased litigation with little to no wigg...

The Walter White case study

Whether you blame the pharmacies, the manufacturers or the doctors, people are the collateral damage.

Social media contact lists have become an increasingly important part of a business’s customer lists. This trend has only acce...

With more workers accessing, disclosing, using and creating valuable company information from their homes, prudent company lea...

Trade secret and patent litigation are tools to protect inventions. Many businesses have invested heavily in building patent p...

California’s privacy landscape has continued to evolve since 2018, and this year is turning out to be no exception.

The bill codifies an employer’s reporting requirements in the event of COVID-19 infections at the workplace and clarifies Cal/...

This ballot measure is the latest phase in an epic battle between advocates for workers’ rights, who believe everyone deserve...

Consider the case of the recent find by a 33-year-old Arkansas man, who found a massive 9-carat diamond in a public state park...

On Sept. 23, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order asking the California Legislature to end the issuance of new hydrauli...

On Sept. 18, Gov. Gavin Newsom approved Senate Bill 1146, codifying current COVID-19 Emergency Rules of Court 11 and 12 as Cal...