Last week, California again parted ways with federal wage and hour standards to increase protections for the Golden State’s em...

The easier, more modern system is what was envisioned after Bush-Gore

More than two centuries of independence at the U.S. Department of Justice were upended last week when political appointees, pr...

Two years after it was widely documented that cellular carriers were selling highly precise customer location data to third pa...

If you are about to sell stock, your cash of bitcoin, your out of state real estate holdings, or settle a career lawsuit, you ...

In a complex commercial case, a trial lawyer has many ingredients to choose from. There are millions of pages of documents, do...

Given the potential costs and the uncertainties of predicting state and federal court juries, it makes sense that many compani...

More and more trial lawyers are making use of the “mini-opening” in their cases. When done properly, the mini-opening can be a...

As you stand before a jury delivering your opening statement, the last thing you should feel is that you can’t win. Every tria...

Water litigation often involves decades of conflict. Judicial and administrative litigation about the American, mainstem San J...

The debate over the Supreme Court of California's 2018 Dynamex decision - in which the state's highest court adopted the so-ca...

Does due process require an ability to pay before imposing criminal fines? Is it fundamentally unfair to impose assessments to...

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

California’s law dictating the number of women who must be hired to the boards of publicly traded California corporations (whe...

I have long been scratching my head over Napa County Superior Court’s contested judicial election, in which Judge Monique Lang...

Roger Stone will have his place in history, but not merely for his role as a gadfly in the president’s once-inner circle. More...

Prosecutors in the Roger Stone case lied to the attorney general about their sentencing recommendation.

TA recent ethics opinion from the State Bar discusses the ethical obligations of both an attorney departing a law firm, akin t...

This question was raised recently in opposition to proposals by the State Bar of California regarding fee-sharing and nonattor...

There is magic happening at the Los Angeles County Dependency Courts in Monterey Park and Antelope Valley, California. These a...

Jessica Stern’s new book ‘My War Criminal’ documents her encounters with an architect of genocide

People receive notifications about another data breach that may have affected their personal information daily. Although large...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to review a 9th Circuit decision involving a class action under the Illinois Biometri...

The 9th is set to hear oral arguments in FTC v. Qualcomm on Thursday. This appeal of District Judge Lucy Koh’s groundbreaking ...

With over half of our returns being prepared by someone else, it is no wonder that many taxpayers may feel tempted to not even...

We need to unleash the unparalleled innovation capacity of America into our new markets without the constraints of Qualcomm’s ...

The federal Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act would prohibit pre-disbute arbitration agreements that force arbitration o...

A recent ruling sets a lower burden for bringing insider trading cases under Title 18 and will likely encourage prosecutors to...

The Sixth Amendment right to confront entails, among other things, the right to have a witness “physical[ly] presen[t]” in cou...

Four app development companies recent filed a class action suit against Facebook in the Northern District of California, alleg...