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...

A monthly review of important developments affecting nonprofits.

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...

An emerging phenomenon and a critical area of engagement

What do you do when you simply must settle a case?

Sometimes, a lawyer might be the first responder

In “Gods of the Upper Air” (August 2019), Charles King traces the vast and quite positive influence of Franz Boas, the towerin...

Taxes do not make a good spectator sport, but you can still sometimes learn something by the missteps of others. Reality stars...

Scofflaws no more, street artists are nowadays quick to invoke the proverbial long arm when their original work is coopted, ex...

This month will see the governor, Legislature, gig employers and organized labor take a crack at this issue in an attempt to d...

When a Supreme Court case becomes famous, we forget what went before. The 1978 Bakke affirmative action litigation, against th...

On Aug. 23, President Donald Trump signed the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (SBRA), which, starting in February 20...

In this case, the 4th District Court of Appeal examined whether a losing bidder on a public works projects can recover its bid...

The California Supreme Court recently held that a city protects itself from inverse condemnation claims resulting from a sewer...