The California Supreme Court just reopened the probate court to disinherited trust beneficiaries.

There is a pattern taking place throughout the entire country. More progressive individuals are running and being elected to ...

Mandatory arbitration agreements are used by employers to require employees, as a term and condition of employment, to agree t...

What do the American Bible Society, Consumer Reports, Girl Scouts of the USA, and Sierra Club have in common? All of them use ...

Many states in the United States permit contractual restraints on trade, provided the restraints are reasonable. California wa...

Artists’ moral rights, or the rights of creators of copyrighted work to protect and control the fate of their work, are arguab...

Even if something is not a crime, it could be a high crime? This non sequitur is outrageous on its face and cannot be true.

The military’s gay policy is still harming veterans

In what is the largest privacy class action settlement to date, Facebook Inc. announced that it will settle a high-profile law...

In fact, many investors who thought funds they received from Section 1031 exchanges last year are taxable and believe nothing ...

The judicial career of the recently-passed Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Philip Saeta is one that deserves more than...

Last month’s column ended with an aphorism from Honest Abe about catching flies with honey. (But who wants to catch flies anyw...

Public Defenders are committed to the cause of justice for their clients. They fight vigorously to defend them. They work lon...

While the Court of Appeal’s decision is relatively straightforward it seems that its decision was grounded primarily on how th...

The time for recognition of a parent-child privilege has come.

Consider to what extent an incident, a moment in our past, is significant within the endless chain of what we think is cause a...

In a recent decision the California Supreme Court established a framework for determining when public school employees are eli...

Lawyers sometimes think, “The judge was wrong. That evidence was not admissible. So I’ll win the appeal. All I need to do is w...

What specific trade secrets were stolen, and why should they be given any protection? These seem to be fair questions to ask a...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in the appeal of the criminal convictions related to the so-called “Bridg...

At least nine bills have been introduced seeking exemptions from AB 5, including for small businesses, newspaper deliverers, f...

Party politics aside and irrespective of whether a Republican or Democrat occupies the White House, let's look at what some of...

Understanding how the world got to its present state in terms of climate change requires looking at some basic tenets.

The uncertain impact of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act upon prenuptial agreements provides more cause to shy away...

Comedy and law don’t seem compatible. “The law,” after all, is serious and sober, the cases themselves often complicated and,...

The EPA has adopted new final regulations to redefine the term “waters of the United States.”

Americans, especially Californians, celebrate meritocracy, the idea that what what we do matters more than where we are from. ...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a petition for writ of certiorari to review a decision on the constitutiona...

In Civil Procedure, I assign students to visit court, watch any civil dispute, and write up their observations, because the co...

At the end of each year, for the past seven years, I have counted the number and type of motions that were decided in Departme...