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...

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...