Last year, when I read that California’s law school deans were pushing to have the bar exam pass score lowered, I bit my tongu...

Many employers and employees alike are eager to get back to work as Safer-at-Home restrictions begin to ease. Notwithstanding ...

According to many polls, President Donald Trump’s path to re-election has never looked more difficult. But the polls fail to a...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent grants of certiorari in two cases could significantly clarify the scope of the Alien Tort Stat...

On Thursday in Part 1 of this two-part series, we discussed the U.S. Supreme Court's major decisions from its October 2019 ter...

This is our opportunity to lead. To conquer biases. To truly embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. To allow the garden of t...

A discussion with a Fresno-based immigration lawyer on the importance of giving clients more control and on the imperative of ...

In her June 29 column, UC Berkeley School of Law Clinical Professor Elizabeth Semel discussed the "straightforward and surpri...

The nationwide coronavirus lockdown — the first in over a century from a global pandemic — has given us an opportunity to slow...

5 considerations for California lawyers before participating in their first remote arbitration hearing.

The U.S. Supreme Court gaveled out last Thursday, drawing to a close one of the most politically volatile terms in recent memo...

A recent appellate case highlights three areas in which conduct that is commonplace during the course of a marriage may have c...

It is axiomatic that divorce fosters conflict. Occasionally the conflict between divorcing spouses may give rise to tort and o...

Tax advisers use the term “disclosure” frequently. Occasionally, taxpayers do too, although they may not understand how or why...

At first glance, there may not seem much that congressional subpoenas for the last 10 years of President Donald Trump’s person...

For years, Courts of Appeal disagreed over whether employment claims qualified for protection under the anti-SLAPP statute.

Perspectives of a Black, woman, management-side employment attorney.

A California Court of Appeal concluded last year that an employee does not need to physically show up to “report” to work and ...

For the entertainment industry, March’s shelter-in-place orders meant a total production shutdown. Entertainment employers hav...

With unemployment and economic distress reaching levels unseen since the Great Depression, businesses and their employees may ...

At a time when most California employers were focused on COVID-19 response and compliance, scant attention was given to a ruli...

With the recent protests and social unrest relating to the killings of George Floyd and others, and the 2020 presidential elec...

Missing from the discussion of a number of the sought after reforms is an appreciation of the existing legal landscape in whic...

Put simply, politics can be bad for business. But may an employer discipline or terminate workers for participating in politic...

Does workers’ compensation cover COVID-19 that may have been contracted by employees in the workplace? The answer is “it depen...

Balancing AI and robotics pandemic solutions with privacy concerns.

Global compliance obligations in the brave new world.

The current COVID-19 crisis has many employees asking — if not demanding — that they receive additional compensation for work ...

With the July 15 deadline for identifying exchange properties now behind us, many real estate investors in Section 1031 exchan...

What was once a source of revenue for local governments and their waste haulers is now a black hole draining local revenues an...