It's harder than it used to be for startup technology companies to avoid taxes on their intellectual property.

Combating student loan scams online has an unlikely ally -- intellectual property. These student loan scams often target stude...

There has been a lack of coordinated effort to keep powerful drugs out of the hands of those who don't need them, while making...

A dispute over who controls the rights to this powerful gene-editing technology shows how the Bayh-Dole Act is no longer about...

Nonexempt employees who work on commission or piece-rate must receive an additional, separate compensation for rest breaks and...

A better path forward is to acknowledge we will never fully eliminate homelessness and ask how we can improve conditions not j...

California's trial courts are precipitating an avoidable crisis in language access services by continuing to subject staff int...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Kevin Brown uses families, support programs, and sometimes 'a little fear' to help kee...

FCC Chair Ajit Pai's plan to create a new Office of Economics to focus on economic analysis geared to achieve a predetermined ...

There is an ongoing court battle between Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell and the Association of Los Angeles Deputy Sh...

This year, individual tax returns are due on Tuesday, April 18 — not last Saturday, April 15. If you haven't filed yet, should...

Once the new administration sets its sights on innovative commercial technologies for defense uses, there should be plenty of ...

In a pending case, the state high court is mulling over whether an unnamed class member must first intervene, rather than simp...

The First Amendment protects the right to not speak, as much as it protects the right to speak, argues beverage manufacturers ...

In her new book "Blaming Mothers," law professor Linda Fentiman explores how pregnant women are stripped of their right to mak...

I am no constitutional lawyer, but even I know that originalism depends on a large conceit. The conceit is that we can rightly...

Superior Court Commissioner Los Angeles County (San Fernando) ...

Don't burden the appellate judge with every date or fact — stick to what matters in the appeal.

The Commission on Judicial Performance is only a complaint form away if a judge is treating you or your client unfairly. By Jo...

Defense arguments that ask a judge to disallow the majority of a winning plaintiff's claimed fees often fly in the face of rea...

California is bound to play an integral role in spurring continued state-by-state legalization and in chipping away at federal...

Relegating the proactive functions of the organized bar to a voluntary bar association might endanger the State Bar's most imp...

Beyond the obvious answer -- CARB can keep auctioning emissions -- the 3rd District's recent decision has several important im...

In the wake of its fake account scandal, Wells Fargo installed a new chief executive, reformed its sales incentives, and clawe...

A recent 9th Circuit decision narrowed the term "beneficiaries" under ERISA to exclude health care providers. By Robert J. McK...

Like most states, California has enacted data security and data breach notification laws to protect personal information of re...

Probation officers may search cellphone and computer activity if it's pursuant to a probationary term reasonably related to po...

We've all run across an appeal that seems frivolous. But while some appeals may be losers, not all loser appeals are frivolous...

Last month, the California secretary of state posted a list of approximately 5,000 suspended or forfeited nonprofit corporatio...

The bill would make the Register of Copyrights, an appointed position, to be nominated by the president and confirmed by the S...