United States District Judge Manuel L. Real was in his eighth of what would be 53 controversial years on the Central District ...

A lawyer should strongly consider that with every question asked and work with a client to feel when to admit, deny, attempt ...

National attention has increasingly focused on the proper role of antitrust law in regulating labor markets. Much has been wri...

The Legislative Analyst’s Office that serves as the California Legislature’s nonpartisan fiscal and policy advisor recently pu...

According to data from the World Economic Forum and McKinsey Global Institute, AI is expected to create as many as 133 million...

Let’s all hope that Lee Robbins continues to do well. He wants to move out of state and has been paying rent on a town home th...

California is on the verge of restoring the right to vote for people on parole, ending a practice that makes second-class citi...

Young Nicholas Rowley’s multi-paragraph letter (“Fixing MICRA: In search of a hero in a black robe,” July 3) demonstrates that...

California Senate Bill 188, known as the CROWN Act, seeks to “Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural hair.” The bi...

Mayor Pete’s milestone candidacy will hopefully serve the cause of history by cashiering the unfounded and logically empty spe...

When thorny issues arise in the corporate setting, the board of directors of a company may turn to an outside attorney to perf...

Just over a year after the California Supreme Court handed down the landmark decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals a...

Many plaintiffs settle lawsuits or win judgments, but are later surprised that they have to pay taxes. Even those who know tha...

The bill was recently introduced in Congress with the goal of mandating free, public access to federal court electronic record...

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Defending World Cup Champion U.S. Women's National Team soccer players have agreed to mediate their gender pay equity lawsuit ...

The reasoning of the majority opinion is so straightforward, it’s hard to imagine disagreement. But disagreement there was.

I had heard the stories about U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real. A tyrant. Lawless. A dictator in a robe. As a journalist, I ...

Eventually the “Judge Real stories” will fade as memories dim, but when a meltdown occurs in my courtroom, I’ll continue to wo...

As our troops were coming back from the Vietnam war, insurance company lobbyists and special interests groups saw their opport...

In a 7-2 decision written essentially in recognition of the separate sovereign principle in Gamble v. United States, the defen...

While the government is touting Walmart’s $282 million settlement to resolve a seven-year FCPA investigation as a victory, the...

Sorry for the bait-and-switch title, but this article is not about what you probably think it’s going to be about. Rather, we’...

At the height of the Great Depression nearly a quarter of Americans were unemployed. In response, Congress enacted a series of...

As of Monday, California law requires video or audio recordings of a “critical incident” to be disclosed within 45 days of whe...

While the California Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the de minimis defense readily sniffed out unpaid time of several minu...

The dynamic of states responding to federal action or inaction is continuing to repeatedly play out in areas of interest to or...

In Rucho v. Common Cause, by a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court announced what federal courts will do to fix extreme partisan ...

Last week’s Supreme Court decision in Kisor v. Wilkie dramatically rewrote the rules for deference, retaining so-called Auer d...

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