With unemployment and economic distress reaching levels unseen since the Great Depression, businesses and their employees may ...

At a time when most California employers were focused on COVID-19 response and compliance, scant attention was given to a ruli...

With the recent protests and social unrest relating to the killings of George Floyd and others, and the 2020 presidential elec...

Missing from the discussion of a number of the sought after reforms is an appreciation of the existing legal landscape in whic...

Put simply, politics can be bad for business. But may an employer discipline or terminate workers for participating in politic...

Does workers’ compensation cover COVID-19 that may have been contracted by employees in the workplace? The answer is “it depen...

Balancing AI and robotics pandemic solutions with privacy concerns.

Global compliance obligations in the brave new world.

The current COVID-19 crisis has many employees asking — if not demanding — that they receive additional compensation for work ...

With the July 15 deadline for identifying exchange properties now behind us, many real estate investors in Section 1031 exchan...

What was once a source of revenue for local governments and their waste haulers is now a black hole draining local revenues an...

President Trump has undertaken an assault on America’s environmental laws and regulations unmatched in the nation’s history. H...

Does workers’ compensation cover COVID-19 that may have been contracted by employees in the workplace? The answer is “it depen...

Mary Trump’s remarkable book may well be the most serious, candid and revealing examination of Donald Trump ever written by an...

The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority is dramatically expanding protection for religions at the expense of all of us ...

The ability to realize monetary value from intellectual property assets should not be surprising to business owners. Research ...

On June 5, the governor of California gave the green light for film and television production to resume, effective June 12. Th...

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision is notable for what it does, but also for what it doesn't do. It held that the fact that ...

In the ongoing confrontation between the U.S. government and Chinese telecom giant Huawei, the U.S. has dealt another major blow.

Compared to other states, Hawaii has seen few cases and deaths from COVID-19. It is easy to see why. Unlike other states, the ...

Perhaps the most influential book ever written about the process of negotiating, and certainly a “primer” for virtually every ...

I am so proud of the many lawyers who have come forward to offer assistance to demonstrators and victims of police violence in...

The California State Bar’s plans for the upcoming October bar exam rely on a dubious, unprecedented version of the multi-state...

In addition to the devastating human toll resulting from COVID-19, the pandemic has had an impact on the economy now and likel...

The California Supreme Court should adopt an emergency diploma privilege. It is the equitable, fair, and compassionate solutio...

This is a good time to re-read — or for some to pick up for the first time — materials on implicit bias, and in particular how...

The California Supreme Court recently answered questions of how California labor laws apply to employees who perform work insi...

The asylum system is under attack. Over the past few years, we have seen policy after policy, fueled by racism and xenophobia,...

In all criminal cases, the accused is presumed innocent. This means that a jury must not presume that person accused of violat...

Governor Newsom and other California officials have used the virus as an excuse to create a Sacramento-based medical welfare s...