If you ever wanted to know what it’s like to be the target of a government agency that covets your home, go see a new movie ca...

As part of our mission to eradicate all forms of bias, we support and defend the independence of the judiciary and reject part...

When I joined CAALA in 1961, there were only approximately 250 members, but among them were some great lawyers. But Ned was in...

In searching for a new chief public defender, the L.A. Board of Supervisors should only consider candidates with substantial e...

In part one of this series, we broke down the numbers of what types of cases the court heard, where they came from, and the ho...

Fortunately, the 9th Circuit has published several instructive decisions involving the interplay of religious freedoms and the...

The dramatic drop in allowance and increased patent invalidation rates should be discussed with inventors and businesses so th...

Autonomous technology is far from perfected, but the end result will benefit generations who have yet to even be conceived.

We all have a stake in language access in California courts — the legitimacy and viability of the legal system in such a diver...

In September, we predicted a ruling upholding the Immigration and Nationality Act’s incorporation of the definition of “crime ...

Let’s dive into the data from last year to see what lessons we can learn about the state high court.

A recent testy interchange between Justices Anthony Kennedy and Sonia Sotomayor highlighted a tension between the ubiquity of ...

Earlier this year, the federal court in Los Angeles entered an order which had the effect of blocking the city from enforcing ...

If fighting for your fees is going to trigger a lawsuit you might lose, it's best to settle than fight for a full recovery.

Although a busy time for individual tax filers, it's been a relatively quiet month in the exempt organizations legal space, th...

Without adequate foresight, a client may find that control of the privilege is now in the hands of the successor corporation.

When confronted by an elderly transferor, every competent estate attorney must reflexively obtain a California certificate of ...

There are good reasons for the California Legislature to revisit the "party aggrieved" standard when it comes to class action ...

Laws like this will give defendants in funded cases an advantage over plaintiffs by revealing at the outset of the case when t...

When the world changes as dramatically as it has over the past few decades, not only the rules need to change: the way we inve...

The Supreme Court has not approved of any such standard. Even in the 9th Circuit, the award must be "completely irrational."

Currently, no agency has classified acrylamide as a “known” carcinogen. Yet, according to this new ruling, coffee sold in Cali...

The plain fact is that high-net-worth individuals need to protect their financial interests before marriage.

In the years since the America Invents Act took effect in 2012, what have we learned, and where are we likely heading?

A new series of Federal Circuit decisions indicates concern that the pendulum has swung too far, and discourages early patent-...

We have entered a time when documented photographic or video evidence is not unassailable proof; it is not uniformly authentic...

The frequency with which the U.S. Supreme Court has, in recent years, been changing patent law is dizzying, and the court ofte...

Following the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's denial of an application to register a single-color trade dress for yellow Ch...

The ground-breaking Defend Trade Secrets Act became law in May 2016. As we approach the two-year anniversary we consider four ...

The rapid staking of cryptocurrency patent territory has challenged the notion of what is allowable subject matter and what is...