President Trump has undertaken an assault on America’s environmental laws and regulations unmatched in the nation’s history. H...

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

Mary Trump’s remarkable book may well be the most serious, candid and revealing examination of Donald Trump ever written by an...

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On June 5, the governor of California gave the green light for film and television production to resume, effective June 12. Th...

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In the ongoing confrontation between the U.S. government and Chinese telecom giant Huawei, the U.S. has dealt another major blow.

Compared to other states, Hawaii has seen few cases and deaths from COVID-19. It is easy to see why. Unlike other states, the ...

Perhaps the most influential book ever written about the process of negotiating, and certainly a “primer” for virtually every ...

I am so proud of the many lawyers who have come forward to offer assistance to demonstrators and victims of police violence in...

The California State Bar’s plans for the upcoming October bar exam rely on a dubious, unprecedented version of the multi-state...

In addition to the devastating human toll resulting from COVID-19, the pandemic has had an impact on the economy now and likel...

The California Supreme Court should adopt an emergency diploma privilege. It is the equitable, fair, and compassionate solutio...

This is a good time to re-read — or for some to pick up for the first time — materials on implicit bias, and in particular how...

The California Supreme Court recently answered questions of how California labor laws apply to employees who perform work insi...

The asylum system is under attack. Over the past few years, we have seen policy after policy, fueled by racism and xenophobia,...

In all criminal cases, the accused is presumed innocent. This means that a jury must not presume that person accused of violat...

Governor Newsom and other California officials have used the virus as an excuse to create a Sacramento-based medical welfare s...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently denied petitions for certiorari from U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decisions a...

The stakes in Henry Schein II are much larger than the narrow conflict among the circuits regarding delegation of “gateway” is...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent opinion comes as no surprise to veteran trademark practitioners, not only for its holding, but...

During this pandemic, the class of 2020 law graduates moved to online instruction mid semester. Many did not have a chance to ...

As part of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017, Congress restricted Code Section 1031 Exchanges to only real property — a term th...

For nine years, I ran over to the local Veterans Treatment Court, VTC, on Tuesday afternoons to act as a mentor, primarily to ...

California cities have, in the past few months, accelerated a trend that has been developing for a few years: they are passing...

On June 22, the White House issued a new presidential proclamation to suspend the entry of new H-1B, L-1, certain J-1 and othe...

From its inception this column has drawn inspiration from the Oliver Wendell Holmes quote, “The young man knows the rules but ...

More than a year and a half ago, President Donald Trump, unwilling to accept Congress' repeated explicit refusals to fund a wa...

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