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Twice in the last two months, the court took the unusual step of staying district court orders that enjoined Trump policies t...

As with so many other intellectual property matters, whether a mark is famous will depend on a case by case analysis. For now,...

The type of biometric privacy lawsuit filed last month against a Hilton Hotel in Chicago (Case 2019CH09270) is a harbinger of ...

Why is this generation struggling financially to stay afloat, get ahead, and live a life better than their parents?

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I read with interest the Sept. 11 article, “Professor uncovers nationwide scams involving fake court orders,” regarding bogus ...

In Trump v. Hawaii, the 2018 travel ban case, Justice Thomas called nationwide injunctions “legally and historically dubious.”...

Last week, the California Supreme Court settled a question that has been hotly debated over the past few years: Can employees ...

Last week, the California Legislature approved a controversial new law that will reshape the way businesses evaluate their rel...

With climate change at our doorstep, our state leaders know we don’t have time to wait until the next drought to create a more...

Over the last two years, the Trump administration has sought to rewrite longstanding laws and close our doors to asylum seeker...

Napa Valley’s wineries are among the most heavily regulated businesses in the world. In addition to the myriad state and feder...

Since its passage in 1938, courts have struggled to interpret the meaning of “the regular rate” and the correct measure of ove...

So you just were served with a demand for production of documents. How do you respond?

If signed into law, AB 51 will make it a misdemeanor for “a person” to require any applicant or employee to, “as a condition o...

Sadly, LGBTQ partners and spouses “fall victim to domestic violence at equal or even higher rates compared to their heterosexu...

The issue of this article is whether rulings of the batte din applying Jewish law can be confirmed without violating modern la...

Predictably, most of the movement seems to be directed to tax-free states like Texas, Florida, Washington or Nevada. But Puert...

The dictionary provides two generally accepted meanings to the word “publish.” It means “put into a book.” And it means “made ...

After a recent ruling, presumably, it’s back to the drawing board at the White House to devise clearer standards that meet pro...

The California regulatory regime remains complicated, but there are several trends that broadly apply, and for which savvy mar...

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There are some unique challenges for companies in the education space, particularly as they work to operationalize compliance ...

This article provides an overview of recent developments in Washington, D.C. that may influence federal AV policy. These devel...

For better or worse, California obstinately continues to go its own way on the issue of workplace arbitration. Two recent dev...

Using a common sense approach to the meaning of “confidentiality,” the California Supreme Court concluded that while Brady lis...

This is the fourth article in our series on externships. Previous articles covered the basics of law school externships (“Exte...

Based upon a long line of California cases, a new ethics opinion acknowledges the potential dual benefits to both clients and ...

The 5-to-4 Republican majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has existed for some time now, and has been accepted as a political f...