Altera Corporation, a subsidiary of Intel and a leading manufacturer of programmable logic devices, recently petitioned the U....

Since President Trump took office, the nation has been on a crash course in Constitutional Law. Rarely a week goes by without ...

Lat month the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that has significant implications for the construction of the Atlantic C...

Is the role of the attorney general “being an ‘attorney for the president or the country’”?

The ACLU of California, Impact Fund and California ChangeLawyers in a chapter and verse letter dated Sept. 23, 2019, sent to t...

As a young government lawyer, It didn’t take me long to learn that politics can override good policy.

2020 is likely to be a decisive year for opioid litigation settlements.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has relied on disgorgement of ill-gotten gains as one of its main and most effective en...

The increasing use of arbitration clauses, coupled with class action waivers in standard employment agreements, has led to a d...

The state high court will soon decide if and when jury trials are available in these actions, including Prop 65

The 9th Circuit has entered a new era of judicial positioning and politicization illustrated by its recent decisions and opini...

While many a trial attorney may be of the opinion that jurors make up their minds during opening statements, I disagree.

Practitioners who are familiar with the onerous rule that has barred injured plaintiffs from recovering for their foul ball in...

There is an enormous gap between the need for civil legal services and most people’s ability to access legal help. More than h...

Attorneys generally may not directly solicit potential clients to provide legal help. This prohibition is meant to alleviate t...

Having spent the last 45 years participating in the Los Angeles criminal justice system from all angles (prosecutor, defense a...

State courts shouldn’t ask counsel to appear to report on removed cases

The new lower PFAS levels will result in many more public water systems with wells exceeding the new response levels, and more...

You hear it all the time: “She’s a gold digger.” “He’s a scrub.” “They’re just living off the child support to fund his/her li...

The California Supreme Court’s ruling in Kim v. Reins won’t “stop” anything.

All plaintiffs collecting money care about taxes, and the tax treatment of litigation damages is varied and complex. But the r...

The California Supreme Court is expected to decide whether state laws governing wage statements and minimum wage apply to empl...

This is the rare antitrust case that can be reduced to a credibility contest between testifying witnesses or decided correctly...

California law has long dictated that intentional tortfeasors cannot shift their liability to a merely negligent actor. A pend...

A recent appellate ruling held that under the Ralph M. Brown Act a should include a contemporaneous record reflecting a threat...

There are exceptions to the principle that inaccurate information in an application automatically gives the insurer an absolut...

When employees are involved in romantic relationships with each other, it can bring a whole host of potential problems that ne...

Rule number one for property owners and their counsel in physical takings cases is that the one thing you do not want to hear ...

The Protecting the Right to Organize Act, recently passed by the house, would be a major overhaul of the National Labor Relati...

While many insurers doing business in California will fall within the scope of the law, it is also true that in many cases muc...