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.

The FDA's approval signals growing acceptance of cannabis, but increasing federal control could harm consumers and the industry.

Many historians view our country as tumbling through five to six distinct eras in our two-party system. Perhaps it is time for...

Defense attorneys in California often are ignoring statutes enacted specifically to help our veterans transition back into pro...

In light of the legislative trend in this area, isn’t it reasonable to wonder whether a cause of action for bullying can be fa...

On July 18, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 766 into law, adding several sections to the Code of Civil Procedure to permit...

Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer recently wrote to express his concern over Assembly Bill 1810.

In overturning a defense verdict, the decision reinforces sexual harassment victims' rights to present their evidence at trial.

In my nearly 40 years as a writs attorney in the 2nd District Court of Appeal, I saw a flood of petitions that made two fatal ...

A survey examining the May 2017 to July 2018 timeframe revealed 220 appellate opinions (published and unpublished), with 152 f...

If you do not think those things affect Supreme Court decisions and that each of the nine justices approaches each case with a...