After the two most recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, President Donald Trump suggested that he might support federal...

Then in 2018, the Trump administration froze the corporate average fuel economy standards, neither reducing neither fuel consu...

How artificial intelligence and deep learning will impact employment litigation

Law can appear like magic to those who are not lawyers, and no doubt there are those jokers who would liken the disciplines as...

An effective severance agreement can help you reduce legal risk. As with any type of employment agreement, the devil is often ...

Contrary to popular belief among lawyers, application of the litigation privilege is not limited to civil lawsuits.

Instead of merely following the latest trend for choosing a legal form, founders should weigh the following considerations.

Even with knowledge of the rules, attorneys can sometimes let their emotions get the best of them in the heat of a deposition....

On Thursday, the 9th Circuit affirmed the district court’s order certifying a class of Facebook users who allege that Facebook...

Subrogation means the stepping of one person into the legal place of another. In a lease where there is a “waiver of subrogati...

There is a long list of publications that you actually can rely on, including the tax code and the regulations. There are many...

When the governor not only executes the laws, but also orders the adoption of laws to overturn judicial decisions, the governo...

People new to the cannabis industry often think that marijuana is simply “legal in California.” That’s only partially true; ma...

In the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, so-called “Red Flag” laws, now in force in 17 states, are becoming a ...

When lawyers and their former clients are sued for malicious prosecution, it is necessary to determine applicable statutes of ...

You may have heard of the recent decision out of the 2nd Circuit that addressed the First Amendment implications of the presid...

The 9th Circuit said that the “Blurred Lines case” was just one case. They said that it would not affect other cases. Many sai...

Today, over 1,000 Californian bar applicants each year achieve a score that would qualify them to practice law in New York, Te...

Are we in the midst of a similar trend in formal legal writing, relaxing the use of contractions? Are the few judicial contrac...

Governor Newsom recently approved a bill that modifies several California laws health care, including financial eligibility re...

Elderly Californians and their families turn to 24-hour care facilities during their greatest time of need. Twenty-four hour c...

The case most often cited by insurers for their position that “arising out of” exclusions should be read broadly does not supp...

When it comes to appeals, it's best to dance with the one that brung ya.

When higher education is reduced to return on investment, that decision requires an explanation. The assignment is to watch a ...

As aptly stated by the California Supreme Court, “[i]t is doubtful the average homeowner realizes tree trimming can require a ...

The state law privilege protecting tax returns from disclosure noted the July 31 story titled “Tax return bill, aimed at the p...

In the long run, we are all dead, so why worry about the problems that have a slow burn and won’t impact the firm for a while?...

August — the month that many of my readers are on vacation. So why write an August column? Other columnists take off a month o...

We send them there. We break them. Then we take away their benefits.

Starring ace trial lawyer Flash Feinberg and his trusty sidekick Professor Plato