Everyone agrees that the root causes of wildfires should be addressed. However, one step below the surface of this clear-cut c...

The farmworker overtime bill, now signed into law, could affect hundreds of thousands of agricultural workers and change the f...

While the fate the Anthem/Cigna and Aetna/Humana mergers is uncertain, it seems likely that at least one of them will fail to ...

There may be more disclosure about litigation financing forthcoming, however, especially in class actions, based on a recent d...

A recent 9th Circuit ruling considers which privilege law governs whether the settlement email exchange during mediation is ad...

Receiving a motion for sanctions can be a scary or even emotional event, regardless of whether the motion is brought against j...

Upon receipt of a deposition subpoena or a subpoena duces tecum issued by an arbitrator, careful practitioners should ask two ...

Affirming the old adage that hard facts make bad law, a 9th Circuit ruling that the Communications Decency Act does not shield...

Last week, the 9th Circuit ruled that two of Uber's arbitration agreements are valid and enforceable, reversing the Northern D...

Melania Trump's lawsuit against the Daily Mail makes good on one of her husband's most famous promises — a vow in February tha...

These rules — including those which puts the burden on the party complaining of burden — are designed to ensure judges don't g...

Bills like AB 2888 do not actually limit discretion in sentencing. Instead, these bills shift sentencing discretion from the j...

The Obama board's position misapplies long-settled board law and does a disservice both to employees and employers. By Mark Ro...

In the 1960s, the U.S. Supreme Court started to divorce Fourth Amendment protections from their grounding in common-law proper...

Last week, shortly before the 15-year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the House of Representatives passed t...

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security published a proposed International Entrepreneur Rule creating a "startup visa....

As the summer wrapped up in August, we got a taste of the coming year with respect to tax-exempt organizations and were inform...

For more than 20 years the "Privette doctrine" has shielded project owners and contractors from jobsite injury claims...

If the prediction that 6.4 billion connected Internet of Things things will be in use worldwide in 2016, it's imperative that ...

Last month, the California Supreme Court kicked the door open for out-of-state plaintiffs to sue out-of-state companies in Cal...

Superior Court Judge Orange County (Newport Beach) ...

Insurance requirements in contracts can be confusing for early- and midstage technology services and software companies. By Da...

Patent or trade secret — that is the question. By Glenn Dassoff and Harry Moren ...

The modern era's availability of low-cost, high-quality technology can help attorneys level the playing field when pitted agai...

In the United States alone, there are already numerous reports of injuries directly attributed to Pokémon GO: car accidents, p...

What if there were an app that let your clients know exactly what you did on their behalf? There is in fact, such an app — you...

California's anti-SLAPP statute has propelled the 9th Circuit into the world of adult entertainment. By Charles Kagay ...

It is a sentencing reform initiative. It is an economic growth initiative. It is a consumer protection initiative. It is a wor...

What happens when the political winds change and the federal government begins prosecuting crimes it once consider to be low p...

The recently published memoir of William A. Norris, "Liberal Opinions: My Life in the Stream of History," is an account of a m...