Lawyers who try to game the system by appealing a frivolous anti-SLAPP motion may succeed in causing their opponent undue cost...

Starring ace trial lawyer Flash Feinberg and his trusty sidekick Professor Plato

The most striking aspect of the new tax law is the corporate tax rate reduction to 21 percent. What does this mean for us and ...

Amnesty seems overdue. Even government officials have mentioned the idea of an IRS tax amnesty. There’s a good deal of tax cle...

Unfortunately, cynics who insist judges are just political actors with robes now have their "exhibit A": Judge William Alsup's...

California is setting priorities for its role in monitoring the resolution of claims under the 14-year-old Private Attorneys G...

The current investigation by the Los Angeles County district attorney into Sheriff's Department files on officers with a recor...

A new day could be dawning in California for mediation confidentiality. The state's Law Revision Commission, after express aut...

Is a man who did not bother to learn the facts of the case, and who deferred the draft five times and never served, in a posit...

The Northern District of California revised its local patent rules last year, requiring the patent holder to provide early dam...

While email is often used to send important information and documents, it is by no means a foolproof method of communication f...

Since it's the new year, it's a good time to tackle those things you been meaning to do, but never do. Clean the closets. Exer...

An unfortunate trend developing in California is a tendency to mete out justice based on who or what you are, rather than base...

We all have many benefits by living in this great country, but as citizens we also have some obligations. One is for each of u...

A Jan. 10 article by attorney Tor Ekeland, "Searches, seizures and the Silk Road," advocates for updating the Fourth Amendment...

Whenever you disagree with the IRS, procedure is important. Pay attention to the order in which notices arrive, and to the spe...

On Wednesday, the nation's highest court heard oral argument in a case which may send a broader signal as to whether the Trump...

There was no shortage of litigation, but it was climate change and policy shifts and climate change that made the biggest impact.

In a term filled with difficult cases, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Bacerra should be easy for the U.S. ...

In order to save California's public pension systems, the California Supreme Court may ultimately need to allow lower courts t...

The message is clear: California is closed for business. Nowhere is this message better illustrated than in the new labor laws...

Trump's words and deeds make it crystal clear that he thinks about immigration in racial terms.

I've seen firsthand the devastation of an offshore oil spill. As a young lawyer for the city of Santa Barbara in 1969.

With the appointments of Scott Pruitt (administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency), Ryan Zinke (secretary of the Int...

The U.S. Supreme Court will review whether lost profits can be awarded in patent cases based on use of patented systems occurr...

Just before Christmas, the California Supreme Court ruled that a product manufacturer can be liable for harms caused by a prod...

The financial stakes involved in the suit demonstrate the magnitude of the contest, and the deliberately coercive nature of th...

In just the past six months, scholars have begun to question the fairness and transparency of the algorithms used by risk asse...

At bottom, a recent decision reminds us that the litigation process is time-consuming, costly, and emotionally exacting. Attor...