The hybrid nature of a PAGA action is ambiguous and courts are therefore divided in handling such claims. Particularly, which ...

Fresh on the heels of its prior opinion discussing confidentiality, the State Bar of California closed out 2016 with an ethics...

2017 will be an interesting tax year, as capital gains, itemized deductions, earned income tax rates, state tax deductions, ne...

For California employers, 2016 was a red banner year. We saw new laws, amendments to existing laws and significant rulings tha...

Multiple California appellate court decisions reject the notion that plaintiffs can be compelled to arbitrate particular aspec...

Direct investment by China in the U.S. is on track to hit a record $30 billion in 2016, double the investment figure for 2015....

While we are less than two weeks from President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, House Republicans have wasted no time intro...

In what many consider to be a stunning reversal of a 2014 decision, the California Supreme Court ruled that employers may not ...

Nowhere is the challenge to integrate the advance of technology into the law more public than in the U.S. Supreme Court's effo...

While there is nothing wrong with FinTech companies collaborating with financial institutions on Wall Street, problems arise w...

Restricting the use of a powerful and economical defensive tool to only those engaged in higher stakes litigation discriminate...

Law school transactional clinics which prepare students for startup employment right out of law school is reversing the trend ...

Recognizing the importance for construction contractors to get paid in a timely fashion, California enacted a series of laws o...

This month we discuss crowdfunding and some of the legal issues it raises for nonprofits. Towards the end of the month, we als...

While Visa, MasterCard and the rest are certainly not the devil, they run afoul of the First Amendment in their Frank Underwoo...

Raimundo Montes De Oca faced crises as a firefighter, public defender and Santa Barbara judge.

Insurers owing a duty to defend must pay all applicable defense fees and costs — even ones that do "double duty" as prosecutio...

Two recent Court of Appeal decisions have made condemnation more difficult and expensive for the condemning authority. By Joan...

Under the most recent 9th Circuit ruling in the Uber case, it remains an open question whether the NLRA allows employers to in...

As part of the Beverly Hills Bar Association's recent travel delegation to Israel, we apparently walked into what we in the U....

Implementing President-elect Donald Trump's campaign promise to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would unneces...

While commentators often compare California to Periclean Athens or Rennsaissance Italy -- the Marvel of the World -- judges, l...

Cases like Dred Scott and The Antelope should not be cited for its dictum — at least not without acknowledgi...

Sessions has been attacked ever since Trump nominated him to be attorney general. But what is his true flaw? He is a Republica...

As Trump will be able to immediately select two new National Labor Relations Board members, given the conservative cast of his...

It has been my practice at the end of each year to call on my aged friend Miss Ann Thrope. It has been some time since I last ...

Social media activity provides rich resource for informal discovery, as long as each website's rules are abided. By Michelle S...

As the number and severity of data breaches have increased in recent years, there has been a corresponding rise in data breach...

Despite the results of the November election, marijuana remains illegal at the federal, and regulating its use in the workforc...

The same properties that lawmakers believe make powdered alcohol a health and safety concern will make AB 1554 difficult to en...