Trial counsel are well aware of the five-year statute within which to bring a case to trial after the complaint is filed. By S...

Businesses are bracing for a new rule from the Obama Administration that would require companies to report employee pay data b...

On Jan. 4, the California Supreme Court decided its most significant separation of power case in decades. By Michael B. Salern...

Experienced counsel, understanding the risks of litigation and benefits of resolution, come to the mediation fully prepared wi...

Attorney solicitations tell the client what to do, but does the attorney know what to do? By Howard Smith ...

The California Supreme Court is currently reviewing several cases involving the state's anti-SLAPP statute, Code of Civil Proc...

In recent months, our state Supreme Court has resolved controversial cases that bear directly on the conduct of lawyers. By Jo...

Like love, being the Los Angeles County jail means "never having to say you are sorry." By Robert L. Bastian Jr. ...

Nothing is worse than a bad sequel. Unfortunately for the entertainment industry, productions in New York City have become the...

As the number of residential "short sales" skyrocketed as an alternative to foreclosure, California enacted legislation in 201...

Only two years after doing so in the context of patent cases, Supreme Court will address the correct standard for awarding att...

On Jan. 28, the California Public Utilities Commission voted in favor of a net metering successor tariff for customers of Cali...

Today in California, there are more than 300 prisoners serving life without parole sentences as well as more than 6,000 with l...

Montgomery should be interpreted for what it is - an acknowledgment that juveniles are different from adults and that those di...

Although it would be easy to place all of the blame on SoCal Gas, the story and context are a bit more nuanced. By Sarah Duffy...

The Supreme Court threw in a zinger in a new case, asking whether President Obama's actions on immigration violate the take ca...

For the families, friends and relatives of the 13 innocent people murdered in the Wichita Massacre, a sentence of life in pris...

In the recent Trump Entertainment Resorts case, the 3rd Circuit addressed two potentially conflicting provisions of fed...

California's lack of "affordable" housing has been the focus of a flurry of policy proposals aimed at increasing the stock of ...

In the 1990s, California voters were duped into dismantling the rights of innocent people injured by the fault of another. By ...

A jury recently found Dr. Hsui-Ying Tseng guilty of murder for deaths of three of her patients, who all died from drug overdos...

Approximately 300,000 people are raped or sexually assaulted in the U.S. each year, according to DOJ statistics. By Betsy Butl...

The Court of Appeal recently held that exclusion of a party's witness for failure to identify the witness in discovery is appr...

The world of data privacy and cybersecurity in the European Union has become awash with new regulation and other fundamental c...

In the past decade, over 90 percent of announced public deals have been challenged by stockholders, sometimes only hours after...

On Jan. 1 of this year, two new laws, the California Electronic Privacy Act and Assembly Bill 929, took effect. ...

The latest edition of "Trade Secret Litigation and Protection in California" is a worthy paperback to add to your collection o...

Surprisingly or not, Congress made no effort to set the contours of what constitutes an "employee" in many of the laws governi...

Lest anyone think the brave new world of e-discovery with its considerable complications for the unwary and unprepared is sole...

Last week, the 2nd District Court of Appeal certified for publication a decision reversing an arbitration award of $1.3 millio...