On March 25, 1911, a 30-year-old social worker named Frances Perkins was walking through Greenwich Village to visit a friend. ...

Last month, California enacted the Uniform Trust Decanting Act, which will now apply to all California trusts unless the trust...

Without careful planning, a relatively straightforward claim for workers compensation benefits could turn into a huge legal fi...

The esports sector is warming up to collective bargaining agreements, athlete rights, and streamlined media opportunities. The...

After five years of collaborations between major players in the music industry, such as the RIAA, SirusXM and the Recording Ac...

Imagine if the law gave an appellate court jurisdiction to hear an appeal from the decision of the Senate Judiciary Committee ...

The conflict between California and the Trump administration regarding net neutrality is but one more area in which the confli...

The Indian Child Welfare Act, and potentially tribal sovereignty, suffered a significant setback last week when a federal cour...

Just over a year ago on Oct. 5, 2017, the news broke that Harvey Weinstein “paid off sexual harassment accusers for decades.”

California Gov. Jerry Brown just signed into law the nation's first gender diversity mandate for female representation on publ...

You might say I have a rooting interest in the redemption of people who have done bad things as children.

The California Court of Appeal recently certified for publication a landmark wage and hour decision upholding the legality of ...

Victims of art theft, beware. If you think you know who stole your painting — even if you don’t know its whereabouts — don’t w...

In recent months, the California appellate courts have published a number of cases addressing the role of expert witness decla...

Broadly based legal challenges are possible. The president’s power to conduct foreign affairs does not give the executive cart...

If the attorney is appearing at mediation on behalf of his or her client, does the attorney sign the “as to form” line or the ...

Claims like those of individual drivers are exactly the types of claims that should be disposed through a process less formal ...

Bad actors don’t suddenly change their stripes because they were spoon-fed a few hours of mandatory training. So how do we cha...

As the saying goes, "bad facts make bad law." Add in an unartfully drafted statute, and you have Nielsen v. Preap, the latest ...

It’s time to plug this gaping hole in our motor vehicle laws.

A middle ground is possible for rent control, but this year’s initiative to repeal Costa-Hawkins does the opposite.

I have been pondering "commensurability," an important concept in law, after my diagnosis with a rare, serious autoimmune dise...

Unless an alarm sounds to immediately constrain Musk’s Neverland-like banter and play, the clock in the Croc will draw ever cl...

The 2nd Circuit's ruling in United States v. Hoskins may provide further encouragement for foreign individuals and entities to...

To ensure that a plea is "knowing and intelligent," criminal defense attorneys must tread carefully through the briar patch of...

Based on a recent ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, rock legends Robert Plant and Jimmy Page will return to a L...

This term the Supreme Court has a chance to overturn a decades-old decision that kept many property owners out of federal courts.

This term, the Supreme Court will consider whether, under the America Invents Act, a secret prior sale can invalidate a patent.

In a ruling heard ‘round the entertainment world, in August a superior court in Los Angeles said Johnny Depp’s oral contract w...