On Thrusday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1159, which was passed as the replacement to Newsom’s Executive Order N-62-2...

The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to invalidate marijuana’s Schedule I status under the CSA on constitutional grounds.

It is no secret that in 1776, when the Founding Fathers wrote the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, “We the People” did not i...

Two decisions this year by the U.S. Supreme Court broaden trademark protection and are bound to increase trademark litigation ...

Prognostications are that legal micro-directives consisting of proactively distributed real-time snippets of the law will inev...

A guide to long-term leases, reassessments... and counting

All branches of California’s government enacted sweeping changes to the eviction process in response to the COVID-19 pandemic....

There has been a bevy of special purpose acquisition company initial public offerings in the last three years, resulting in fr...

Assembly Bill 1525 will protect covered financial entities under state law and offer cannabis businesses the option to directl...

But while Senate Bill 1146’s proposed changes to the Code of Civil Procedure are long-overdue and ultimately welcomed, SB 1146...

Until a recent appellate ruling, it appeared that, under California law, if a debtor made a transfer without receiving “reason...

President Donald Trump recently issued an executive order for the purpose of ensuring that discounts offered on prescription d...

A handful of notable, environmentally focused bills made it through both houses of the California Legislature and are now wait...

I have taught constitutional law for 40 years, but the events of the last several years have shown me a powerful lesson: The C...

A California superior court recently held that a provision in a Delaware corporation’s articles of incorporation requiring sto...

California is the latest state to adopt its own mini-Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Under the new regime, we will get a...

On Monday, the 9th Circuit issued an opinion deciding an issue of first impression on a significant insurance issue: “[W]hen, ...

Despite its passion and strength, does this concurring opinion belong here?

Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced an order banning residential evictions for most r...

A bite of an apple leads to a lawsuit.

Governor Newsom has 30 days to consider nearly 400 pieces of legislation. The total number of bills reaching the governor’s de...

When AB 5 was enacted, its principal target was the gig economy, but its impact has extended well beyond the workforce that dr...

Lawyers, this is your cue: It’s time to step up to the plate. Especially young lawyers and law students.

A surprise decision came from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week in which the court denied a petition by the gove...

On Aug. 31, the California Legislature passed a bill that would strengthen the ability to challenge discrimination in the jury...

What recent experiences with remote juries tell us about our distracted world

This article outlines a basic checklist designed for the convenience of counsel in furtherance of their meet and confer obliga...

This summer, amid headlines about national outrage and protest over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others at t...

A new framework identifies the autonomous levels of AI legal reasoning and provides a much-needed means of comparing advances ...

What can you say about a ballot measure, ostensibly designed to enhance online data privacy, that is being opposed not only by...