Government, Administrative/Regulatory
Legalized recreational cannabis: an update
By Elizabeth Martyn
This article provides an update on the evolving impacts of the legalization of recreational cannabis with voter approval of Pr...
Law Practice, Law Office Management
Annual review: Where did you ‘profit’ and where did you ‘lose’?
By Frederick Hertz
A thoughtful year-end review is an excellent opportunity to take stock of what went right and what didn’t during the prior yea...
Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment
Workers’ compensation and personal injury lawsuits
By Lars C. Johnson
If you are a personal injury lawyer or you defend injury claims, you most likely have encountered cases involving a worker inj...
U.S. Supreme Court, Securities, Civil Litigation, Corporate, Administrative/Regulatory
SEC in-house judges ruling is the agency's latest in a string of losses
By Thomas A. Zaccaro, Nicolas Morgan
The Supreme Court has now disagreed with the SEC's interpretation of the Constitution and federal law in a series of significa...
Government, Constitutional Law
California needs a lawyer
By David A. Carrillo, Stephen M. Duvernay
Tim Draper’s “Three Californias” measure qualified for this November’s ballot, and it is a mortal threat to our state. We revi...
Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Options for serious fee disputes: mediation, arbitration or litigation
By Frederick Hertz
The key is to remain open to whichever process your client wishes to use.
Tax, Civil Litigation
Why emotional distress damages are taxable but sickness is not
By Robert W. Wood
The tax treatment of litigation damages is varied and complex. But at least the rule for compensatory damages for personal phy...
Law Practice, Health Care & Hospital Law, Government, Administrative/Regulatory
VA's failure to provide adequate notice prolongs homelessness
By Kara Mahoney, Amanda Powell
Other government agencies provide notice to attorneys -- why can't the VA?
Securities, Entertainment & Sports, Corporate
A Different Game
By Kyle C. Krpata, Joseph Ferrari
Considerations for athletes who are looking to become engaged in venture capital.
Civil Litigation, Administrative/Regulatory
TCPA ruling should provide businesses with more confidence
By Ana Tagvoryan, Jeffrey N. Rosenthal
The D.C. Circuit recently issued its mandate to the Federal Communication Commission regarding the scope of the Telephone Cons...
Civil Litigation, Corporate, California Courts of Appeal
Forum selection, personal jurisdiction and shareholder derivative suits
By Mohammed Elayan
What if a forum selection clause requires that the target forum have personal jurisdiction over the defendants?
Constitutional Law
28th Amendment to the US Constitution: a proposal
By Robert L. Bastian Jr.
The president's pointed public criticism of a federal judge's revocation of his former campaign manager Paul Manafort's bail d...
Administrative/Regulatory
As GDPR takes effect, US relies on patchwork of regulations
By Anita Taff-Rice
Late last month, the General Data Protection Regulation, a sweeping set of regulations on collection and use of personal data ...
Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary, Alternative Dispute Resolution
Hitting discovery disputes out of the park — with baseball arbitration
By Curtis E.A. Karnow
I write on the most common discovery problem — and propose an unusual solution: baseball arbitration.
Tax, Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court
Will employee classification ruling just lead to even more lawsuits?
By Robert W. Wood
Even if you have a good handle on the issues that may weigh in favor of one classification or another for a particular worker,...
Tax, Government, Administrative/Regulatory
Trump Foundation in trouble and other nonprofit news
By Erin Bradrick
By far the juiciest story impacting the nonprofit sector in recent days was the New York attorney general's suit filed against...
Many legal historians believe that this legendary figure, Earl Rogers, the notorious “lawyer of the damned,” was perhaps the g...
Government, Corporate
Indicators suggest the recovery is in our rear view mirror
By Jonathan A. Michaels
It is difficult to imagine, but 2018 will usher in a new class of young millennials who are, for the most part, complete stran...
Judges and Judiciary, California Supreme Court, Appellate Practice
California Supreme Court by the numbers: oral arguments, part 2
By Kirk C. Jenkins
In part one of this series, we looked at the oral argument data for the California Supreme Court as a whole. Today, we will lo...
I am honored to be spending the summer teaching American law in China. Perhaps the better word is “humbled.”
Immigration, Government
Let’s be clear about what family separation means
By William W. Bruzzo
Both Trump and Sessions see the separation of children from their parents as leverage in either keeping people from crossing t...
Law Practice
Representation of women in California law schools
By Jennifer Kain Kilgore
Acknowledging gender representation in school is not just important, it's imperative.
Congratulations to the recent bar admittees for successfully completing those long years of studying the rule of law. Now you ...
Law Practice
Tips from the trenches: Being the junior associate at trial
By David R. Carpenter, Sheri Rockwell
On TV, every lawyer -- from Matlock, to Jack McCoy, to Alicia Florrick -- is a trial lawyer. In reality, trials are few and fa...
Law Practice
What new lawyers should look for in a firm
By Howard Lind, Zack Wasserman
As nerve racking as some interviews may be, a little forethought and willingness to ask questions regarding the things you car...
Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Appellate Practice
Appellate Adventures, Chapter Four: "The Brief: Where Do I Begin?"
By Myron Moskovitz
Starring ace trial lawyer Flash Feinberg and his trusty sidekick Professor Plato
The story of how California ended the practice of non-lawyer judges
Judges and Judiciary, California Supreme Court, Appellate Practice
California Supreme Court by the numbers: oral arguments
By Kirk C. Jenkins
What can we learn from the oral arguments in the 84 cases decided by the California Supreme Court in 2017?
Labor/Employment, Corporate
Maintaining privilege in attorney-led investigations
By Gregory W. Knopp, Stephanie P. Priel
Earn MCLE credit learning about how to avoid disclosing documents that your company never expected to see the light of day
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, sitting with the 1st Circuit, recently tackled the question of whether an insu...