I am writing in regard to the column by Deputy District Attorney Michele Hanisee attacking both Berkeley Law’s landmark report...

If our legal system is to be preserved, the problem of racial bias must be meaningfully addressed. Because the underrepresenta...

Since the California Consumer Privacy Act went into effect on Jan. 1, many businesses have been eager to receive the promised ...

We’ve seen it again and again across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic: State lawmakers adopting emergency rules that s...

The legal complications caused by COVID-19 have raised some novel legal issues, but there are no special COVID-19 ethics rules...

As a mediator, I listen to all sides and hear how each perceives the other. With this insight, I help parties collaborate and ...

Despite a win in the recent DACA case, rules proposed by the Department of Homeland Security and an executive order by Trump i...

Because current patent laws do not allow artificial inventors, we address two questions: (1) What can we do right now if a dev...

It’s been about 100 days since California issued its COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. For my own solo family law practice, and fr...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a disruptive force leading us to contemplate different ways of doing things. One outgrowth of this ma...

Dropping arguments against retroactivity of judicial decisions is an easy (and morally correct) way for the attorney general t...

Liu v. SEC is likely only the beginning of the SEC’s challenges on this front, as it leaves unanswered thorny questions about ...

For practitioners, these changes are worthy of discussion, lest you or your client find yourself on the receiving end of a dem...

Recent developments and strategic implications.

The “Noerr-Pennington doctrine” says you can’t be held liable under the antitrust laws for asking the government to do someth...

The Northern District of California has been a primary location for government antitrust investigations and civil lawsuits inv...

Marijuana, the IRS and taxes have a difficult relationship. In a recent 9th Circuit ruling, the unhappy story starts with a re...

A wave of bankruptcies is likely due to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the economy and the unemployment rate. For someon...

Has the long but regrettable decline in civility among lawyers now expanded to incivility toward the courts? Demands for judic...

In a Daily Journal story on June 19 titled “Access advocates pressure court to end closed proceedings,” the newspaper grossly ...

A society’s budget reveals its moral values, and by that metric, 21st century America barely hovers above bankruptcy. Our budg...

The Death Penalty Clinic at Berkeley Law released a study last week that concludes that "racial discrimination is an ever-pres...

While Twitter, like other interactive computer service providers, enjoys protection under the Communications Decency Act from ...

There was no plethora of opinions in Bostock, only three — the 33-page majority opinion for the court by Justice Neil Gorsuch,...

Senate Bill 616, which goes into full effect on Sept. 1, 2020, has many purposes, chief among them the creation of an automati...

One of the most difficult areas of law to learn and apply is the hearsay rule. Appellate lawyers, and even learned appellate j...

The Families First Coronavirus Act requires certain employers to provide employees with Emergency Paid Sick Leave or Expanded ...

It is inevitable that the ongoing global pandemic will continue to affect nearly all facets of social and business life across...

The Payroll Protection Program, or PPP, has been one of the things holding many small businesses together. Now that loan forgi...