The COVID-19 pandemic has caused states to impose unprecedented restrictions on their citizens, leading to a perhaps equally u...

New guidance from the U.S. Department of Labor might seem like an outright gift to Uber and Lyft.

On Sept. 29, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan held a hearing in United States v. Flynn. The hearing follows an 8-2 decision ...

In Johnson v. The Raytheon Company, Inc., a false alarm investigated by maintenance engineering staff led to a Privette doctri...

This column will attempt to prove that you, California lawyer, do indeed know more German than you may think.

Significant infusions of government resources into the private sector during the COVID-19 pandemic have prompted focus on a ne...

George Gascón says he won’t enforce key parts of California’s Penal Code

As Donald Trump faces the potential conclusion of his presidency, he may also face criminal indictments for his unsavory busin...

Number 299, but who’s really counting?

From my perch as an appellate lawyer, I review a lot of trial court transcripts. I see quite a few mistakes — by both judges a...

Unfortunately for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, her qualifications are likely to attract less attention than they deserve during th...

On Sept. 23, Gov. Gavin Newsom held a press conference to announce issuance of Executive Order N-79-20 setting several broad g...

American history and American law are joined at the hip and must be viewed concurrently. Legal scholars insist that historical...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the long-overlooked problems of the California bar exam into sharp relief. Put frankly, the ...

COVID-19 has not stopped judicial outreach programs. But it will change them. Judicial outreach will emerge stronger and bette...

As the court gavels-in the new term, let us take a look at the more significant cases that are already on its docket -- and th...

On Sept. 25, the Judicial Council of California approved an amendment to California Rule of Court 10.469 to make education on ...

Defining “medical necessity” in the context of medical and surgical benefits has already been a challenge for health care, and...

As summer turns to fall, movie and TV production is just beginning to gear up in the face of a pandemic that is showing little...

For more than two decades, California courts have recognized that one of the three ways an insurance agent broadens the genera...

Is a party’s loss of use of a leasehold or other interest in real property considered “property damage” within the meaning of ...

Kathrine James has written a book on preparing witnesses, “Harvesting Witnesses’ Stories: How to Get Your Client the Second-Be...

The headline to the Sept. 30 story, “Judge accuses lawyer of ‘gender incivility’,” inaccurately states that the judge in MJJ P...

Until recently, Amazon had a unified, and largely successful, approach to avoiding lawsuits over defective products sold on it...

Press reports suggest that the United States and nearly every state are in the midst of putting the finishing touches on their...

The governor approved a historic expansion of the California Family Right Act earlier this month when he signed into law Senat...

Neither the courts nor federal agencies have addressed whether an employer-mandated COVID-19 vaccination requirement is lawful...

I was dumbfounded by the “Daddy’s Gill” headline in the Daily Journal’s Sept. 28 profile of Kern County Superior Court Judge S...

The bill increased thresholds for “small estates” to avoid formal probate proceedings.

Whether you are a first-time fund, exempt adviser or registered investment adviser, all funds must be mindful of implementing ...