Though digital currency, such as bitcoin, has been rising in popularity, there is very little guidance from the IRS regarding ...
FBI Director James B. Comey said Hillary was just careless with her emails. Well, extremely careless. Since then, the bounds o...
Under a new state law, business owners may hire a certified access specialist to ensure compliance with disability access stan...
The attorney general's attempt to define a standard of care by specifically endorsing a set of security measures in the 2016 C...
By bringing the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace out in the open, we have educated our workforce on how to detect a...
International Law, Government
China balks at the legal force of tribunal
By William Slomanson
The South China Sea features a regional dispute with global implications. Conflicting sovereignty claims are clogging oil and ...
Litigation
Once a witness is on the stand, things can only go wrong
By Brendan P. Glackin
The first, last and most important rule of direct examination (other than telling the truth) is this: prepare, prepare, prepar...
Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate
Delaware court dishes on conditions to closing a transaction
By Marc Boiron
A Delaware court recently considered whether a corporation was required to close a transaction even though its outside tax cou...
Personal Injury & Torts
Is there a duty to warn Olympic travelers about Zika?
By Laurie E. Sherwood
The Summer Olympics are less than two weeks away, and among the many concerns facing these Olympics is the Zika virus. By Laur...
Family, California Supreme Court
New law jettisons controversial divorce ruling
By Maya Shulman
SB 1255, which becomes effective in January, replaces a state high court ruling that a couple living under the same roof could...
California Supreme Court, Appellate Practice
The geography of the high court docket
By Kirk C. Jenkins
How closely do the three principal areas of the California Supreme Court's docket -- civil, criminal and death penalty -- corr...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Protect yourself from over-disclosing
By J. Randolph Evans, Shari L. Klevens
Considering the sheer quantity of documents often involved in modern litigation, even the most careful attorney can inadverten...
Corporate
For LLCs, breaking up is now easier to do
Under existing law, it takes at least a majority vote of the members of an LLC to dissolve the entity and wind up its activiti...
The new regulations lower the barrier to entry and expand the number of businesses using drones from 5,526 companies with exem...
The governor has not declared the drought over, extending harsh water shortage conditions seen in many parts of the state into...
Labor/Employment
Ruling delves into outside counsel and attorney-client privilege
By Sarah Banola
A recent opinion assures employers who retain outside counsel to conduct workplace investigations that the attorney-client pri...
In December 2015, several amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect. Among the changes, the proportionali...
They will ultimately displace the entire legal profession as we know it, while creating demand for a new set of skills that wi...
The court's just-finished term was another banner year for friend-of-the-court briefs, with interested parties filing 849 brie...
Tax, Law Practice
Establishing attorney-client privilege with your accountant
By Robert W. Wood
Even thinking about tax filing may make you nervous. Are you claiming something that the IRS may view as over the top? How muc...
U.S. Supreme Court, Tax, Corporate
States get aggressive about out-of-state sellers
By William H. Gorrod
Several are developing new methods to enforce sales and use taxes for online purchases and setting the battlefield by seeking ...
Linking the state cap-and-trade program to Ontario and other jurisdictions would benefit California with increased market liqu...
This November, California voters will be presented an opportunity to make fundamental changes to its criminal justice system. ...
Government, Administrative/Regulatory
Making effective requests for public records
By Derek P. Cole
fWhile the California Public Records Act's policy of open government usually requires agencies to overlook deficient requests,...
Labor/Employment
Wage and hour laws haven't kept up with technology
By Gene F. Williams
California businesses and employees run the very real risk of missing out on many of these benefits, or falling behind other p...
Perspective
Appeals are not reruns
By the time a case reaches an appellate court the trial court will have rendered dozens, perhaps hundreds, of rulings. The cha...
The answer is not as simple as you might think. By Ben Feuer ...
Superior Court Judge, San Diego County (San Diego) ...
Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary
Civil discovery sanctions
By Patricia M. Lucas, Gary Nadler
Earn MCLE while brushing up on a court's authority to impose sanctions. ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
The evolution of the arbitration acts
By Lawrence Waddington
When Congress enacted the Federal Arbitration Act in 1925 to offer an alternative to the cost and dilatory pace of civil litig...