The Supreme Court will consider if a sex offender's move overseas violates the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act,...

There is no question that there is a law school debt crisis, but it can't be solved by pointing fingers and denegrating anyone...

The failure to include the disabled in diversity studies provides an incomplete analaysis of law firm practices and perpetuate...

Courts generally summarily dispose of fraud and collusion defense when a neutral trial of fact is in play. By David B. Ezra ...

When not properly addressed from the outset, a dissolution between manager and artist can lead to a costly legal fight and unc...

Two Supreme Court decisions have made it tremendously difficult for tribes to uphold the law on their land, but in a case bein...

Airbnb, launched in 2008 to connect people with space to those who want to rent it, means renters and landlords galore, which ...

Courts from time to time encounter parties to a lawsuit who are on active duty in the armed forces.

Thanks to 3-D printing and other innovations, electronic data is a growing problem for owners of patents covering material goo...

While the 9th Circuit's Alaska Wilderness League seems like a potential blockbuster, involving the oil industry and maj...

Three cases at the 9th Circuit examine whether federal labor law protects the right of employees to pursue class actions for w...

Although the prospect of jury service was daunting, it was the most rewarding and educational month I've spent as an attorney....

To be successful, a mediation should start long before the formal gathering of the parties. By Louis M. Marlin ...

If Bruce Wayne tried to buy a replica Batmobile, he might just hear the SLAP! of a lawsuit for copyright infringment.

In recent years, California employers have faced on onslaught of PAGA lawsuits alleging technical violations of the California...

Attorneys talk too much. Some will consider this heresy, but we all know it's true. By Michael P. Masuda ...

Judges often describe the process of evaluating potentially harmful and potentially beneficial factors in antitrust litigation...

There is no end in sight to the law firm mergers that continue to dominate the news of the legal industry. ...

Several troubling issues arose recently when a 9th Circuit panel reversed a district court decision invalidating the Californi...

The Copyright Act was designed to promote artistic expression, but it now often inhabits creativity by discouraging artists fr...

The Supreme Court is considering whether our second chief justice was mistaken when he said "where there is a legal right, the...

The high court declared an Armed Career Criminal Act provision unconstitutional on vagueness grounds.

There are 100 projects underway in downtown Los Angeles, and they are all monumental. By Alan Nevin ...

What do you do when the determination of a legal issue could help resolve your case but won't entirely dispose of the case or ...

It is never good to have a legal argument called 'frivolous.' This is even truer when it comes to taxes. ...

Over the past several decades in Idaho, a power alliance between government and business has formed with only one outlier — th...

The Obergefell opinion is the culmination of a decades-long project to enshrine the notion of dignity into the very cor...

If Democrats and Republicans can agree on anything, it's that we don't want government interference in the consumer market, as...

A recent Delaware case dealt with whether a disinterested, controlling stockholder's ratification of a board action can lower ...

The answer to whether an employee can be fired while on FMLA is familiar to employment attorneys: maybe. By Luis Cardenas ...