It is bad enough that you have to pay your own taxes, let alone someone else's! Yet sometimes, the Internal Revenue Service ca...

There was a time when California workers' compensation system emphasized getting injured workers medical treatment, legislativ...

While these provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act do not specifically mention workplace violence or threats of ...

Proposed Rule 10D-1 directs national securities exchanges to prohibit the listing of any security of an issuer that does not h...

The D.C. Circuit's recent ruling, finding part of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's structure was a violation of the ...

Almost 25 years after women began comprising half of law school graduating classes, women lawyers still lag far behind their m...

Here we go again with Wells Fargo as the poster child for plain old fraud, encouraged by a corrosive corporate culture of gree...

The State Bar Board of Trustee's recently adopted the two of the California Rules Revision Commission's proposed amended Calif...

One of the major arbitration bills that was enacted this year requires all contracts, including those involving arbitration, t...

There may be a new trend in the realm of food misbranding litigation. A few years ago, the Northern District of California ear...

The development of autonomous technology is outpacing the law. To that end, this is the first installment of a new monthly col...

After the decision endorsing disgorgement against executives whether or not their personal misconduct caused an accounting res...

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in the closely watched Salman v. United States, the first time the court...

Evidence suggests dissents are on the rise, now that the partisan division on the court has shifted to four appointees of Repu...

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A review of a couple new laws on the horizon that will update California's Labor Code. By Chris Micheli ...

What happens in Texas stays in Texas — regardless of what the Texas Supreme Court decides, nonattorney patent agent communicat...

Little known fact of the day: California is one of only two states in the country (Texas is the other) which recognize a const...

A bill was introduced in Congress to amend the provision of the Internal Revenue Code that completely prohibits 501(c)(3) orga...

With constant accusations that the United States is "falling behind," it's satisfying to know that in terms of M&A, we're ...

Courts grapple with the jurisdictional challenges of executing search warrants in cyberspace. By Tyler Newby and Hanley Chew ...

Los Angeles County Commissioner Michelle Short has experience in handling divorce cases.

By allowing for the recovery of a plaintiff's attorneys' fees and costs, as well as the possibility of a punitive damages awar...

On Sept. 27, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 1843, which limits an employer's ability to gain access into the j...

In 2013, the California Legislature enacted the HBOR in order to correct perceived and real abuses in the non-judicial foreclo...

Could a trade secret exist if it is known or readily ascertainable within an industry, and its value is derived solely from be...

In response to reader requests, here are more suggestions on usage. By David M. Balabanian ...

A fight over photos of Picasso's paintings in the 9th Circuit provides a useful review of how issues of foreign law should be ...

To help startups and other companies get their feet wet, some technology companies are developing blockchain-based systems for...