This month nonprofits should know about a new bill could affect charitable crowdfunding, the California Supreme Court’s recent...

When the California Supreme Court ruled that many independent contractors must be reclassified as employees, it may have unint...

I find myself appreciating quiet as I would not have anticipated before reaching 51 years of age.

I worry that judicial independence is too abstract a value to resonate with most voters. That is why the burden falls on lawye...

Misguided attorney aligns himself with insurance industry in opposing bill.

This month, Tesla released its 2018 first quarter financials, with horrid results. In the first three months of the year, Tesl...

The insurance industry has found it challenging to insure cyber data. Cryptocurrencies present even more challenges.

With a goal of fueling long-term private sector investment in low-income urban and rural communities, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Ac...

The Supreme Court should reject the National Labor Relations Board’s interpretation of the FAA and ensure arbitration agreemen...

A decision by the Supreme Court to allow employers to deprive employees of their statutory rights to take concerted action wil...

The Founding Fathers could not possibly have anticipated bullying in cyberspace. But they did appreciate, and protected, the r...

Learn how the 9th Circuit’s en banc opinion in Rizo v. Yovino both clarifies and complicates the question.

If the Legislature can move a bill like SB 917 to shore up coverage for landslides, can it also move to give more teeth to Ins...

Why is the insurance commissioner sponsoring a bill that would make it easier for insurance companies to shortchange homeowner...

Even if a subpoenaing party has complied with the notice procedures, there may be other reasons that a CPA may not be able to ...

Only time will tell whether scooter-share companies will have to face the regulatory music.

There is a time and place for revealing the bottom line, but it’s usually at the very end, not the very start of mediation or ...

If a shipment originates out of state or out of the country and is transported into California, for example, and then from the...

Over the past few years, the festival industry has grown exponentially — and with that so too has the scope of radius clauses ...

It turns out that what may appear unlikely or uncommon is quite usual in partner departures, and some circumstances that may b...

Under a claims-made-and-reported policy, the consequences of a delay in reporting can be disastrous, namely a complete loss of...

Aside from the legislative activity (or inactivity), there remains a heightened sensitivity to the use of eminent domain by pu...

The simplicity of the employee classification test recently announced by the state high court is something of a double-edged s...

The Patent Office recently issued a memorandum to its examiners seeking to translate the recent Federal Circuit decisions into...

Any day now, the U.S. Supreme Court will announce its long-awaited decision in a challenge to the Professional and Amateur Spo...

Here's one to check off your bucket list of ponderables: If you engage in an intentional act that results in an unintended acc...

We in the judiciary and the legal professions must inform the public how an independent judiciary is vital to our democracy.

Maligned as it is, if not the Quill physical-presence standard, then what else?

The dog that didn’t bark at oral argument was whether Quill was rightly decided as a matter of law. It was not.

South Dakota has asked the Supreme Court to say what the commerce clause requires, and the court should give what it knows to ...