Many public agencies contract with the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or CalPERS, to provide pension benefits...

While investigating and prosecuting insider trading violations is a fixture of SEC enforcement activity, enforcement actions a...

Almost every city or county has abandoned, fire damaged, or otherwise dilapidated properties. The majority of the time these p...

A family limited partnership is a great platform to accomplish several positive results.

A summary of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act’s tax provisions.

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Act provides the largest fiscal stimulus in modern history and is estimated to cost ...

On Friday, a lawsuit was filed challenging Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s effort to shut down gun stores in Los ...

California, the largest purchaser of goods and services in the country—outside of the federal government—has been particularly...

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act significantly raises the debt ceiling for Chapter 11 debtors to elect to...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed issued a proclamation providing eviction protection to certain small and medium sized busines...

Governor Newsom’s order is especially jarring. Unlike emergency declarations issued by his predecessors, Newsom’s order contai...

When the Department of Homeland Security released its March 19 guidance to state governments, it identified 16 critical infras...

When we call something unconstitutional, it often goes without saying what constitution we’re talking about — the federal one....

Last moth, the California Supreme Court determined that time Apple retail store employees spent engaged in required searches o...

The California Supreme Court recently decided an important wage and hour case deciding whether an individual may still pursue ...

In the realm of trade secret law, an ounce of protection is worth a pound of cure. Remove that protection, and a company may s...

On the heels of Kobe Bryant’s tragic passing in January, his widow, Vanessa Bryant, and the couple’s three minor children find...

The need to delay CCPA enforcement is particularly acute for the state’s brick-and-mortar retailers. For many of them, this is...

In an unprecedented move, both the Internal Revenue Service and the California Franchise Tax Board recently took sweeping step...

Trade secret litigation in California is growing, in both volume and impact.

A Chinese proverb says, “Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” With the abrupt shut down of all ...

Many lawyers do not become familiar with their firm’s lawyer professional liability, or LPL, insurance policies until it is to...

While we are undergoing an unprecedented a time in all of our lives, legal recruiters are as active as ever in their continued...

Do you want to help your employees right now to weather the COVID-19 storm? Here are two ways that go beyond the new small emp...

The Supreme Court likes to pick on the 9th Circuit, and may get another chance when it decides whether to hear a new petition ...

Hearings by video technology are not the only overnight structural changes sweeping through state court systems. From oaths to...

This week as part of a wave of unprecedented changes to American life, Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye discontinued all c...

Broadly adopting remote appearances as a rule in the criminal context raises significant constitutional concerns.

Last year the court discarded the state litigation requirement, but questions remain.

Navigating California state and county COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders.