Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law Assembly Bill 1510, which is aimed at giving sexual assault survivors of Dr. Ge...

Assembly Bill 1763 permits 100% affordable housing projects to be built denser and taller through its adoption of three game-c...

Assembly Bill 218 gives victims of childhood sexual assault, once barred by the statute of limitations, a three-year window to...

On Oct. 11, 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 25, exempting employee and job applicant personal information collect...

The law isn’t doing the job. The #MeToo Movement hasn’t made a difference. What about the movies?

The California Supreme Court’s opinion in California School Boards Association v. State of California presents the specter of ...

Integrating drones into U.S. skies — and specifically into U.S. industries – is not a new goal. It has been a top priority fo...

By all indications, 2020 will be the year in which the California Supreme Court speaks again on the scope of the “California R...

Losing hurts. And when we’re hurt, we want to lash out. But lawyers know — or should know — that lashing out is not profession...

Once upon a time, there was a love triangle between the Liverpool Football Club, New Balance and Nike.

Someone will have to pay for wildfire risks, whether it’s the individual policyholder, the insurance industry or the taxpayers...

In some part, the investment and M&A markets factor in risks of employment law noncompliance into their valuation decision...

New Year’s opening: no resolutions. At my age, it’s too late. And no clichés about it never being too late.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Talking to strangers is risky. You never know what might bother them. Apparently, some lawyers missed the lesson.

Happy new year! Hopefully, you got everything you wanted for Christmas and didn’t get a lump of coal. For one contractor, aptl...

On Dec. 30, Uber, Postmates and two independent workers who use app-based platforms for referrals filed suit in U.S. district ...

“Behavioral Legal Ethics” is a relatively new area of the law that deals with how automatic and mostly unconscious processes p...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upended divided patent infringement.

Three appellate courts recently reached different conclusions regarding whether a claim for contractual indemnity “arises from...

Employment lawyers are familiar with the full spectrum of remedies available to employees under the Fair Employment and Housin...

On Jan. 3, the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit is scheduled to hear oral argument in a case that could impact the impeachm...

Choice of entity has always been a difficult decision, but two years later we are seeing that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 201...

The Federal Trade Commission announced a record-setting $191 million settlement with the University of Phoenix and its parent ...

Senate Bill is a lengthy and complicated piece of housing legislation that will significantly affect land development in Calif...

As a law professor, I am supposed to teach students how to argue — in a classical education, the subject would be “rhetoric.” ...

Whistleblowers often face the same Catch-22 as recent college graduates. You can’t get a job without experience, and you can’t...

Banks are caught in the between state and federal laws on marijuana. Like any other business, marijuana producers and dispensa...

With the new year quickly approaching, now is a good time to reflect on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ significant cas...

It is an historical anomaly that Supreme Court justices are the only judicial category not currently covered by a code of cond...