The Internal Revenue Service, like the rest of society, is struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic. It has closed some of its se...

The present public health emergency presents a unique challenge to estate planning attorneys whose clients wish to execute a w...

“Direct-to-consumer” telehealth offerings have garnered significant attention in recent years, as patients seek real-time, on-...

Franchise systems in all industries would be well served to proactively adapt their systems to allow franchisees to provide s...

On Monday, the California Supreme Court addressed a question that has been hotly debated around the country in litigation that...

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), includes tax credit provisions designed to encourage emplo...

Whose appeal is this anyway? Conventional wisdom is that an appeal “belongs” to the appellant. The appellant created the appea...

Imagine you’re a pregnant teenager, you’re incarcerated, and you have no control over your daily life. Now, you wake up inside...

Correctional health experts have made clear that flattening the curve also requires significantly depopulating prisons, jails,...

Millions are dealing with a sudden loss of income. Among these millions scrambling to figure out how to make ends meet are tho...

The first year of law school is exciting for anyone who likes to think. Many students experience what I experienced: you reali...

As a matter of state law, animal shelters can and should continue their operations in order to protect public health and safet...

The COVID-19 outbreak has impacted the manufacturing, transportation and supply chains underpinning countless aspects of trade...

Picking up where we left off last column, the conversation continues between the old-timer (me) and my young associate (“YA”) ...

Now I know what it’s like. I am under house arrest. Yes, I know I am not the only one. But I have a probation officer. Her nam...

The unprecedented $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, aka the CARES Act, is the largest emergenc...

California has enacted a number of laws to curb violence at home, in the workplace, schools and elsewhere. These laws provide ...

What’s going to happen to the current and anticipated litigation during this stay home period?

The San Francisco Police Department is moving too slowly in implementing collaborative changes aimed at stamping out racial di...

As a teacher, I have realized students have different assumptions now. I am sure it is an actual difference in attitudes towar...

In Allen v. Cooper, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act of 1990, which authori...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling which will likely make it harder for copyright owners to prove infri...

I recently encountered a case involving a liability claim related to serving alcohol. The drinker’s intoxication was alleged t...

Businesses will lose billions of dollars because they cannot operate due to the coronavirus. People either will not enter reta...

The COVID-19 pandemic may give rise to a variety of novel insurance coverage disputes, and some of those disputes may include ...

This past weekend, California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, with the approval of the Judicial Council, took several ex...

“Let’s call it what it is — a disgrace – that the richest state in the richest nation, succeeding across so many sectors, is f...

A month ago, it would have been unthinkable to pay $50 for an eight-ounce bottle of hand sanitizer or $250 for a 50-pack of N9...

Most of California is now suddenly sheltering in place under local orders to combat the Covid-19 virus and the economy has ent...

The courtroom battle for control over the NCAA’s amateurism rules entered a new phase this month with argument before the 9th ...