October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. For years, law enforcement agencies, social service providers, non-gove...

The new Rule 5.5 modifies former Rule of Professional Conduct 1-300, titled “Unauthorized Practice of Law.”

On Sept. 14, the National Labor Relations Board proposed a rule to clarify the board’s position on this legal issue,

It does not always occur to attorneys to formally close the matter internally and to send a file closing letter to a client.

It’s surprising how often this sensible and cost-saving solution is overlooked.

The #MeToo movement and our changing culture have been the driving force behind new California laws that increase employers’ ...

While we normally only address signed bills that have become new law in California, there were quite a number of significant v...

Recent cases have highlighted the question as to what, if any, intellectual property rights do graffiti artists, who use build...

On Aug. 31, the American Bar Association gave Judge Brett Kavanaugh its highest rating of “Well Qualified” in connection with ...

Senate Bill 1300 finally eliminates the pass given to bad actors in the workplace that was rooted in the way the “severe or p...

Beginning on Jan. 1, 2020, the California IoT law will require that manufacturers of any device “capable of connecting to the ...

In the early 90s, the California Supreme Court ruled that the contact information for persons arrested could be released. This...

After the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in November, will Alaska prove to be the exception or the rule for the future of ...

Chevron deference has been a quite controversial doctrine, both on and off the courts. The controversy has encompassed the doc...

As we have seen, sometimes appellate courts do get their hands dirty with facts and will entertain a new fact for the first ti...

The California Supreme Court is considering whether to hear a case that could require the nation’s largest water agency to rel...

There are plenty of opportunities for attorneys from any practice area or background to get involved in pro bono service year-...

In a case of first impression, the court in In re Marriage of Macilwaine, 18 DJDAR 8490 (Cal. App. 1st Dist., Aug. 28, 2018), ...

Let’s hope Mark Judge can be a better man than the belligerent drunk he at least tried to stop from escalating a sexual assaul...

Last week’s hearings on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court cost many of us some billable hours. Inst...

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan held that Sen. Richard Blumenthal, and some 200 other members of Congress, ha...

Prior to the 1970s, material containing asbestos was widely used in construction. From insulation, to plaster, to siding, to t...

The ancient Greeks told a myth of Scylla and Charybdis, a pair of sea monsters on opposite sides of a narrow strait and lured ...

When the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down its decision, it was not a big surprise. The news is not all good for U...

Investors who hold real property tax lien certificates sometimes find that the real property to which the lien attaches is aff...

The ripple effect of an early disclosure of the likely actual penalties to be incurred by first time DUI alleged offenders wil...

Take a look around you. Consider what is occurring throughout the country. An uneducated citizenry and one predominantly educa...

This article urges lawyers to put down for a moment the electronic legal menus we now rely on, check out some of these volumes...

There are countless reasons why people who are sexually assaulted or abused do not report what happened: It’s painful. It’s em...

This article not a judgment on the merits of capital punishment or its appropriateness in these cases, which include defendant...