Like many things, the issue will come down to negotiation power, leverage, fear of negative publicity and loss of potential re...

On March 23, President Donald Trump signed a law that could undo the very protections for privacy and autonomy that American c...

Unless we bring our systems for making rules and regulations into the 21st century, we can’t expect to effectively respond to ...

One of the most difficult and unexpected provisions of the newly enacted Tax Cut and Jobs Act is the three-year holding period...

We should demand that the federal government quit providing grants to school districts for not reporting criminal activity of ...

On April 16, the Los Angeles courthouse previously known as Central Civil West is moving to a new, but distinctly old, venue.

If you are committed to filing your return on time, consider how likely your return is to be audited, and whether there is any...

When any of us fail to “take actions that place the good of society above self-interest,” the public perception of the integri...

A ballot measure in San Francisco would require the city to fund and run a program to provide tenants facing eviction with ful...

The Supreme Court decided a case on Monday that has played-out in a back-and-forth between the 9th Circuit and the high court...

Lawyers have done a lot of good things for baseball down the years. But, like everything else lawyers touch, there is some ill...

President Trump recently signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, which includes a section on tipped employees tha...

The powerful general rule favoring affirmances is subject, naturally, to several exceptions. There are some specific instances...

Individual tax returns are usually due April 15, but this year you get until April 17. Should you rush to file on time or go o...

Note to valued readers: What appears in the following column is not an April Fools' joke. Please observe that the publication ...

Most lawyers who represent appellants lose. In recent years, the statistics are pretty consistent.

We are deeply disappointed by the inaccuracies and untrue statements in the March 21 CLAY Award profile of Jessie C. Kornberg ...

I have read with interest, and a sense of bemusement, headlines about the 9th Circuit's decision in much-watched copyright inf...

As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders compelled payment of agency fees, labor unions prepare for the outcome.

On April 2, new regulations from the California Department of Motor Vehicles go into effect. Starting very soon you may see an...

A consumer group recently sent the California attorney general a letter “urging” him to “investigate the practices of private ...

If you want an interested judge, you need to be an attentive advocate.

A 2017 survey of lawyers' professional liability insurers shows an upward trend in the average fees and costs incurred in defe...

How do we get back to accepting that it is possible for persons honestly and in good faith to reach conclusions we do not share?

We wait, hoping, for the sake of the music industry, that the court will hear this case en banc, and ultimately do the right t...

The California Supreme Court recently held that a dissolved law firm has no property interest in fees generated after dissolut...

Los Angeles residents will remember that in 2016, news agencies reported that anti-gentrification activists in the Latinx neig...

Absent a codified exception, party declarations in family law matters are now disallowed if there is no opportunity for cross-...

Argent Communications Group held its Fourth Annual Conference on California Land Use Law and Policy on March 5 in Los Angeles.

Defense attorney David Katz sheds some light on the secretive grand jury process.