Earlier this year, California enacted a law granting family law judges the authority to decide unresolved issues about pets in...

California taxes are high, the highest in the nation. Think the IRS is tough? California’s Franchise Tax Board is generally re...

In a crucial “note” applicable to all California lawyers, the opinion uses the social impact of the #MeToo movement to compel ...

In 2017, a Bankruptcy Judge Christopher M. Klein from the Eastern District of California entered a judgment in favor of bankru...

Kanye has turned more and more religious, with a new album called “Jesus Is King.” Perhaps he may have been toying with bankru...

A recent ruling is the latest in a series of 9th Circuit cases reflecting a concern that the self-interest of class counsel an...

The new laws, most of which take effect Jan. 1, 2020, cover a wide area from wage and hour and work classification to hairstyl...

In 2019, the California Legislature had another busy year working on new environmental and natural resource bills.

Whatever may have been the intent of the Private Attorneys General Act when it was enacted, it has since evolved into a legali...

I am among the last generation of professionals to have transitioned from hand writing to typing to computers and the internet...

The “high-low” agreement is an often underutilized and misunderstood tactic, typically used in a jury trial to reach a settlem...

The State Bar recently released Formal Opinion Number 2019-200 to address how an attorney must proceed carefully in balancing ...

Former associate justice of the Supreme Court Potter Stewart (1958-1981) advanced a very simple but elegant description of eth...

Using provocative language reflective of the impeachment debate in Washington, prosecutor Richard Ceballos — who was denied th...

Although they are generally distinct sections with their own provisions, there is one possibility in which Section 1031 exchan...

Effective Jan. 1, 2020, civil litigants will have the option of stipulating to the exchange of initial disclosure.

In January 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole memos and directed prosecutors to pursue marijuana related ...

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Facebook is in the news again for a data breach, but this time it happened in a low-tech way. An old fashioned thief stole har...

While Senate Bill 188 specifically contemplated hair textures and hair styles associated with African-Americans, employers sho...

Thanks to the internet, prospective litigants now have the additional option of “opting out” of dispute resolution by jury tri...

In enacting Assembly Bill 218, the California Legislature finally recognized what survivors of childhood sexual abuse suffer t...

The new law is the first of its kind and will attempt to establish cybersecurity standards for connected devices where none ha...

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the federal Fair Housing Act with the goal to “guarantee a basic American ...

California’s pension plans are dangerously underfunded, the result of overly generous benefit promises, wishful thinking and a...

Like a suitcase you had forgotten you had that falls from the top of a closet and hits you in the head, we have now become sud...

The cases before the U.S. Supreme Court on subpoenas for President Donald Trump’s financial records should be easily resolved ...

On Dec. 6, a coalition of business trade associations filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief in the Eastern D...

Being a crime victim is traumatic. As a result, it is not surprising that most crime victims are dismayed to hear that a defen...

I am compelled to say that to be shy is not to be rude. The traits are mistaken for one another.