On July 18, a column by Erwin Chemerinsky, “A troubling free exercise decision,” strongly disagreed with the decision by the U...

Last week, the California Legislature approved a 10-year extension of California’s cap-and-trade program. When signed into law...

President Donald Trump's recent appointments of labor law traditionalists, Marvin E. Kaplan and William J. Emanuel, to the NLR...

In each of the past two weeks the Daily Journal has printed Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s assertion that the U.S. Supreme Court hel...

On July 18, a column by Erwin Chemerinsky, “A troubling free exercise decision,” strongly disagreed with the decision by the U...

Most real estate professionals are aware of the so-called “owner-builder” exemption to California’s contractors’ license laws....

To be sure, a congressional defunding of the ACA could be every bit as dangerous as a president with a smartphone. Outright el...

While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated that the Senate would vote on health care legislation on Tuesday, it wa...

Instead of clarity, at the end of its last term the Supreme Court gave us more vague issues that will engender years of litiga...

How can such an industry exist without any regulatory control? Enter Big Tobacco.

The 2nd Circuit stated that the issue was whether the arbitrator had the authority to certify a class which included absent cl...

Employers in the position of having to defend against a PAGA claim will likely be compelled to produce state-wide employee con...

The three branches need to improve the operation of the system with surgical strikes, best done by the courts for the most par...

Last week the Assembly and Senate judiciary committees approved amendments to a bill (Senate Bill 36, Jackson) that would make...

This dividing line may sound simple, and it can be. Yet there are many tax disputes over these kinds of issues. Then, when you...

Targets are increasingly questioning how quickly a deal can get done and what private equity sponsors can do in terms of opera...

The DOJ’s door is once again wide open to requests by state and local law enforcement to take over their smallish and often we...

The lines between work and home, and between business and personal, have become so blurred that we must to reevaluate a bright...

Money bail has created a two-tiered system of justice where someone’s release is determined largely by their ability to pay ba...

Politics will never exist without spin doctors. Yet, as cynical as our political system has become, recent ballot measures sol...

In the wake of the mortgage crisis, legislatures began enacting statutes to prevent it from happening again. There are now spe...

Pending more instructive precedent, the issue of ADA accommodation for arrestees poses a challenging and as yet insufficiently...

Questions raised regarding the charitable activities of ardent Trump supporter and defender, Jay Sekulow. Also, new regulation...

Learn about the source of a court’s authority to appoint a referee, the scope of referee appointment orders, and referees’ pow...

If someone forgives your debt so you do not have to pay back the lender, isn’t that always a good thing? Yes, but generally no...

Summer is here — though it’s almost gone again. This often means more drivers on the road taking advantage of the school break...

On July 17, the State Assembly Judiciary Committee unanimously voted in favor of Senate Bill 36, which changes the form and fu...

All law firms should be acutely aware by now of the risks posed by hackers. There have been numerous highly publicized hacking...

In his new book “The Chickenshit Club” — an inside reference to prosecutors too scared of failure and too daunted by legal imp...

Last October, the State Bar of California sent to the California Supreme Court, on an expedited basis, Proposed Rule 5-110, mo...