Many politicians and activists claim that President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee is anti-labor. But have they read Jud...

The California Coastal Commission's emerging requirements for shoreline development follow a new report predicting accelerated...

Ongoing conversations online could inadvertently create serial meetings.

Last month, the musician Will.i.am lost a five-year battle against the USPTO attempting to register the mark #WILLPOWER in cla...

It is the nature of the analysis supplied by Troester that suggests more is yet to be said about the implications of this prin...

Whether they reciprocate, or others join me in doing so, I will respect the lawyers who represent clients because they need th...

Should Gov. Jerry Brown sign into law Senate Bill 1437, criminals in California can no longer be punished for the natural and ...

But to be successful, it is important to set the stage properly. Among other things, the right players need to be at the table.

A good estate plan requires a clear understanding as to which assets are controlled by the trust terms. Counsel who rely on th...

It doesn’t appear that anyone worried too much about sexual harassment plaintiffs. In an employment context — and most such cl...

How public agencies can manage new demands for electronic records.

At the end of last term, the U.S. Supreme Court hammered a bit deeper the wedge it had previously inserted between electronic ...

The 3rd District Court of Appeal recently ruled that the public trust doctrine can apply to groundwater extraction, but the co...

A study of 40,775 cases administered by the AAA, JAMS, ADR Services, and Kaiser reveals why states should create incentives fo...

California Senate Bill 826 has passed the California legislature and is headed to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown, who will have ...

California is facing the greatest affordable housing crisis the state has ever experienced. Our largest cities are dominated b...

When dividing community property in a dissolution case, the determination of when the parties separated is key.

The recently enacted CCPA is one of the most comprehensive existing privacy measures in the United States. Earn MCLE credit le...

Did you know that the subatomic particle, the quark, derives its name from Joyce’s impenetrable novel “Finnegan’s Wake”?

As football is America's favorite spectator sport, it is not surprising that many football terms have crept into our everyday ...

For whistleblowers who file under state law, the protection and reward they are entitled to is more robust today because of a ...

Technology is released, someone figures out how to hack it, tech is updated, someone figures out how to hack that, and so the ...

Even if one grants that we humans have consciousness, how do we know it was not something implanted in our brains like a compu...

Adopting technologies can help lawyers reduce the risk or even the impact of the mistakes and client relations issues that can...

All internet traffic may not be equal in the eyes of the Federal Communications Commission, but California legislators voted l...

A recent Federal Circuit opinion shows that not all improvements in computer and software-based claims will qualify as being t...

Even if a public entity does not directly construct or finance a project, a project may nevertheless be found to be a public w...

Possible federal action imposes grave immigration consequences on older adults and their families for accessing public benefits.

San Francisco’s law goes into effect in January, paving the way for it to become the largest city in the United States to ban ...

The unmistakable takeaways from a recent California Supreme Court ruling: (1) Clients get notice. Period. No exceptions. And (...