Government, Administrative/Regulatory
Slouching towards an electronic frontier
By Jason S. Leiderman
Grateful Dead lyricist and internet activist John Perry Barlow passed away last week. So who will pick up where he left off?
Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Criminal, California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal
Prevent experts from presenting hearsay to the jury
By Geoffrey T. Macbride
The California Supreme Court revised an expert’s ability to rely on hearsay not long ago. Earn MCLE credit catching up with wh...
U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Rights
America’s first civil rights case: The Amistad
By James Attridge
History's ultimate "bar exam question" is the fact pattern in United States v. Libellants of the Schooner Amistad, the U.S. Su...
Securities, Government, Corporate, Administrative/Regulatory
If it looks like a security, and smells like a security...
By Rudolph G. Klapper
Recent remarks by SEC Chair Jay Clayton suggest the commission is taking a common-sense approach to its role in regulating vir...
Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
30 tips for avoiding legal malpractice claims
By Dan L. Stanford
During over three decades of prosecuting legal malpractice claims, I have been asked over and over again for concrete ideas to...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Don’t confuse me with facts, I’ve made up my mind
By Robert S. Mann
In a mediation, simply hoping that the plane won't crash in the face of objective evidence that might just do that is hardly a...
Tax, Administrative/Regulatory
Transferring bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies tax-free
By Robert W. Wood
Taxes are an ever-present danger, and it is clear that the IRS is on the hunt. The IRS is pursing tax enforcement with summons...
Civil Litigation, Law Practice
Brian Panish of Los Angeles: A vanishing breed
By James R. Rosen
His eye-popping trial verdicts and record-setting results over the last two-plus decades are already legendary.
U.S. Supreme Court, Criminal, Constitutional Law, California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal
A penny for your thoughts
By Brian M. Hoffstadt
“The only constant is change.” Heraclitus may have been talking about life. But he might as well have been talking about the c...
Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property, Corporate
Federal Circuit illuminates two-prong direct infringement test
By Andrea Jill Weiss Jeffries, Steven J. Corr
A ruling clarifies that parties without a contractual relationship who each perform separate steps of a method claim can satis...
Civil Litigation, Insurance, Administrative/Regulatory
Insuring the product liability risks of cannabis
By Ian A. Stewart, Francis J. Mootz
Businesses must be careful to ensure that they are properly insured for the substantial risks they face.
On Feb. 5, San Francisco's public defender, Jeffrey Adachi, wrote an op-ed for the L.A. Times criticizing judges' and prosecut...
Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Civil Rights, State Bar & Bar Associations
Law clinics key to bridging access-to-justice gap
By Michael Waterstone
On Wednesday, Loyola Law School will formally open our Loyola Social Justice Law Clinic, a consolidated space on campus.
Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Let’s talk about a ‘hybrid’ worker
By Eric B. Kingsley
Last week, a federal judge ruled that Raef Lawson was not an employee of GrubHub during his four-month stint as a driver for t...
Law professors and lawyers must provide clear answers on president questions.
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights
Having cake in Kern County
By Julie A. Werner-Simon
People clamored onto the courthouse steps in the case of the baker who declined to make a cake for a gay couple’s nuptials — o...
Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports, Corporate, Administrative/Regulatory
2018 starting off great for anti-piracy advocates
By Brandon T. Milostan, Douglas E. Mirell
First, an ISP was held liable for not blocking a copyright infringer, and now a California federal court has issued an injunct...
Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Sugar case rehearing could affect public health efforts
By Amy P. Lally
The 9th Circuit is at the intersection of the First Amendment and public health with American Beverage Association v. City and...
U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Constitutional Law
Our Constitution keeps on ticking
By Kris Whitten
We do not know how current disputes will be resolved, but thanks to the Constitution’s Framers, we have a process for resolvin...
Transportation, Government, Corporate, Administrative/Regulatory
The future of privacy
By Jonathan A. Michaels
Consider that the first space shuttle contained some 500,000 lines of software code. Today, the average 2018 automobile contai...
Labor/Employment
Workplace romance in the age of #metoo
By Danielle H. Moore, Megan E. Walker
With the confessional floodgates open, our current society has a renewed awareness of harassment likely unseen since Anita Hil...
Government, Environmental & Energy, Corporate, Administrative/Regulatory
New front in Proposition 65 litigation opens up later this year
By Kristin Larson
While most of the 2018 revisions have been characterized as simple clarifications, they also appear likely to spawn an entire ...
Civil Litigation, Corporate, Construction, California Supreme Court
Intentional interference claims and losing bidders
By Garret D. Murai
What about after a contract is awarded? Is there a remedy available to unsuccessful bidders after an apparent low bidder is aw...
Tax, Government, Banking
Arizona may become first state to accept bitcoin payments
By Robert W. Wood
If passed, Arizona's Senate Bill 1091 would allow income taxes to be paid in bitcoin and other cryptocurrency that is approved...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
The Perils of Unauthorized Disclosure
When an attorney discovers she has received privileged documents in error, crucial ethics questions arise, and they have serio...
U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Environmental & Energy, Administrative/Regulatory
Got a WOTUS challenge? Go straight to district court
By Clark Morrison, Julia Stein
The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously held that challenges to the so-called "Waters of the United States" rule must be heard ...
Judges and Judiciary, Government, Criminal, Civil Rights
‘Public defender’ isn’t just another job
By Brendon D. Woods
The Los Angeles public defender has the potential to be the most influential public defender in the nation — and the office mu...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
Terrorist advocacy and the First Amendment tipping point
By David S. Han
First Amendment protection has practical limits. What if, for example, counterspeech proves to be ineffective, and tens of tho...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Administrative/Regulatory
Drone Searches: A New Frontier for the Fourth Amendment
By Brandon K. Franklin, Kevin O. Moon
The use of drones spurs reassessment of time-honored privacy concerns.
Law Practice, Government
John Adams: John Hancock’s very own consiglieri
By James Attridge
Americans all know that your signature is also called your John Hancock, after the patriot who signed the Declaration of Indep...