Taken together, Senate Bill 100 and Executive Order B-55-18 to Achieve Carbon Neutrality set California — one of the world’s l...

When Marriott International purchased Starwood in 2016, it became the world’s largest hotel chain. Unbeknownst to Marriott, it...

I recently defended a deposition for the first time in many years, having become a full-time neutral about 10 years ago. My ex...

The Judicial Council has just released for public comment a set of new educational requirements for court-appointed attorneys ...

The Constitution states only two limits on the pardon power: It only applies to federal offenses, and that it cannot be used t...

Public sector employers generally have the ability to interview their own employees in furtherance of conducting workplace inv...

An eligible employee may take an early pension without regard to disability. But early retirement often comes with a substanti...

Last week, U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller made a bold and much needed ruling.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., famously declared that the life of law has not been logic but experience. Yet logic improves advoc...

Enterprising plaintiffs’ lawyers are increasingly trying to fill the gap by relying upon evidence of purported “implicit bias”...

9th Circuit Judges Diarmuid O'Scannlain and Carlos Bea have called on the en banc court to reconsider precedent approving of b...

Last March, the California Supreme Court vacated the conviction and sentence of a death row inmate. This rarely happens.

The PTO's recent rule change specifies that the Phillips standard will apply to both America Invents Act proceedings involving...

I've reviewed the DOJ's memo from 2000, titled "A Sitting President's Amenability to Indictment and Criminal Prosecution." It ...

You don’t need to include every little detail, but you want to be able to point to the basic provisions and show that indeed, ...

Richard Wirick reviews Ramachandra Guna’s latest book, “Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World.”

It is all but certain that the USDA and FDA will play a role in regulating various aspects of slaughter-free meat, but the det...

When it comes to the movement to reform abusive guardianship and conservatorship systems, there is an advocacy void when it co...

Internal Revenue Service Forms 1099 usually arrive in January, and serve to kick off the tax season. If you receive them, they...

With its recent opinion, the Court of Appeal fully implemented the policy considerations behind the duty colleges and univers...

It’s time to rethink and redraft executive contracts. Management should not have to wait for a legal verdict in order to do th...

If even Antonin Scalia was willing to abandon the so-called Auer v. Robbins doctrine, it must be on very thin ice indeed.

Absent Supreme Court clarification, uncertainty exists on the proper scope of executive privilege in response to congressional...

Experienced attorneys who know and understand the rules can meet up with a mediator or another attorney they’ve never seen bef...

The Supreme Court tackles whether there are any exceptions to Rule 23(f)’s 14-day deadline to file a petition for permission t...

Predictions abound regarding whether Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom and Democrat supermajorities in both legislative chambers will me...

So now that we have a nominee to fill Justice Kathryn Werdegar’s seat — the governor’s fourth­ appointment to the court — it s...

Diane Cafferata is back with more tips on ensuring you have strong motion practice.

In non-bankruptcy civil cases, Congress has not told Article III federal judges what to do. In bankruptcy cases, Congress cert...