Pop-up shops are here to stay; the following is a list of characteristics that should be considered by a landlord interested i...

With just 11 full-time and part-time DFEH mediators, there are far more cases in California that we can assist.

If Brett Kavanaugh's views becomes the law in more cases like Young v. Hawaii, the right to bear arms is at risk of swallowing...

Employees who give the best years of their productive work life in the service of a single employer need protection

Most successful employment mediations result in a written settlement agreement with standard and customary terms. One such ter...

Every word in hundreds of transaction documents has a bearing on a client's future liability. Knowing what those words should ...

Sophisticated business owners and their counsel should consider alternatives to the usual pattern of negotiating term sheets.

Cannabidiol entrepreneurs are stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea when it comes to legally compliant options for pro...

On July 16, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 3247. The bill, authored by the Assembly Committee on the Judiciary, amends ...

Can a federal agency designate lands that are uninhabitable by an endangered species as "critical habitat" of that species the...

In a trio of cases from the recently concluded October 2017 term, the U.S. Supreme Court decided national issues widely report...

Earn MCLE credit familiarizing yourself with traffic infraction appeals.

After waiting a little over two years, California employers finally got an answer to the question of whether the Fair Labor St...

A new law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown that effectively turns all the superior courts in the state into mental health courts, an...

New York attorney Michael Cohen made headlines again after revealing that he secretly recorded conversations between himself a...

The settlement agreement between Stormy Daniels and President Trump is far from ordinary. It contains an assignment of copyrig...

With the rise of new technologies that allow attorneys to communicate with potential clients in a seemingly unlimited number o...

Never take a firm settlement position without having a good understanding of the ability of each side to present important evi...

William Trevor was, by all critical accounts that matter, one of the two greatest writers of short stories, in English, of our...

Assembly Bill 2282 clarifies existing California law intended to prohibit the use of prior salary history in negotiations betw...

Expect legislation to legalize sports gambling in California to advance in the next year, and for voters to be presented with ...

Governor Jerry Brown has signed Senate Bill 766 into law, which should increase California’s appeal as a destination for inter...

This week, the 9th Circuit struck down a similar law in Hawaii.

There are only about 200 words in the English language borrowed directly from Sanskrit, including three of my favorites: pajam...

It’s easy to remember wages, since you receive a Form W-2. Yet a variety of events can give you taxable income even though you...

A major issue over the last several years has been application of the Supreme Court’s decisions dealing with the exaction of p...

Social media has allowed us to be more connected, and thankfully the courts and legislature are limiting businesses and the go...

The Supreme Court's holding in Lucia does not touch the still larger, also persistent questions of fundamental fairness -- the...

Much media attention has focused on Kavanagh’s positions in cases involving abortion, health care and presidential powers, but...

In today's world of the internet, social media and anonymous leaks to the press, NDAs can be difficult to enforce.