Lending convertible indebtedness is no longer an equity investment by another name. Convertible indebtedness is now, more and ...

Clara Shortridge Foltz must be spinning in her grave realizing that the Board of Supervisors in 1913 was far more enlightened ...

The objective of this article and accompanying self-assessment test is to provide bench officers and lawyers with an overview ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider this question in a case it agreed to hear earlier this month.

Recent months have yielded decisions which will impact some aspects of insurance litigation.

It will take more than merely a harsh criminal sentence or a few depositions to break this spell.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is anything but simplifying with respect to its international tax code provisions. Co

A system of voluntary mediator certification would benefit both the public and the profession.

Last year a California federal court ordered Coinbase to provide the IRS with certain records related to all Coinbase users wh...

Surely Congress would not want a sexual harassment victim to pay tax on 100 percent of her recovery when 40 percent goes to h...

If you are considering mediation as an alternative to litigation, I recommend reading Molière's farcical play, "The Miser."

The Constitution protects an adult’s personal decision to engage in intimate, sexual activity with another adult, whether the ...

The 9th Circuit decision underscores the breadth of an insurer’s duty to defend third-party claims in California — and the oft...

With the legalization of cannabis and many of its by-products in California, employers now must wrestle with another type of e...

Electronic logging records will make a personal injury lawyer’s job easier when proving a driver involved in an accident had e...

While California’s anti-SLAPP statute has been in effect for 25 years, the courts continue to interpret and define its scope a...

The ongoing immigration battle between President Donald J. Trump’s administration and certain states and cities has produced s...

Only three states have statutes dedicated to protecting consumers’ biometric information. Here’s what California can learn.

With so much uncertainty surrounding employment-immigration laws, employers should be aware of a few best practices.

As large as investments in the area have been, the long-term economic and societal benefits of artificial intelligence are pro...

Cybersecurity attacks, data breaches and hackings can be devastating and demoralizing to a company, leaving it with a difficul...

The SEC’s recent Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation regarding Regulation G should bring an end to one popular claim tha...

These cases deal with the statutory interpretation of the Dodd-Frank Act and its whistleblower protections, the jurisdictional...

In the wake of the FCC's decision to remove net neutrality rules, some state legislatures, including California's, have stated...

In 2017, California appellate courts issued several insurance-related decisions. Three are of particular significance.

Under the Tax Cuts and Job Act enacted last month, the ability to make miscellaneous itemized deductions -- including for mana...

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the Securities and Exchange Commission's use of administrative law judges violates ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent initial coin offering enforcement actions signal a new trend in securities enf...

Since a pension dispute in Alameda has been remanded back to the trial court for further consideration, we are in for a longer...

The decision gave derivative lawsuit guidance involving review demand futility claims, the Braddock rule, and the applicabilit...