With the passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act in 2014, California is on the verge of a seismic shift in how t...

Parties routinely ask courts to compel arbitration, to stay litigation pending arbitration, or to review arbitration awards. A...

In 2015, our New Year's resolution is to do what we must to acknowledge that we are good writers only if we acknowledge that w...

The recent cyberattack on Sony Corp. by the so-called "Guardians of Peace" hacker group once again highlights the importance o...

What is it that makes our country so special - even exceptional? The soul of our great country is our liberty and our freedoms...

Issues of sex, gender and sexuality interface with our legal system in many ways, including in the areas of discrimination, cr...

Will this be the year that the court surrenders to the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution with regard to the Federal Ar...

Historically, the question of who is a liable employer under California wage laws hasn't been simple. However, if recent trend...

No one likes receiving Forms 1099. Most people don't like issuing them either. But as the IRS is increasingly driven by inform...

2014 was a busy year in health care law, with action at the U.S. and state Supreme Court, and significant state appellate cour...

In short, our tax code cries out for reform in a primal scream. ...

Although the economy is recovering, and bankruptcy filings are down, there was no shortage of complex bankruptcy-related appel...

An upcoming U.S. high court case will revisit what Judge Posner has called "one of the all-time economically dumb Supreme Cour...

In a world where people are constantly on the go and sleep is not high on the list of priorities, drowsy driving is a widespre...

When the U.S. Supreme Court held that a traffic stop based on a reasonable mistake of law by a police officer does not violate...

Next month, the Supreme Court will hear argument on whether a state law barring judges from personally soliciting campaign fun...

As 2014 rolls into 2015, cybersecurity and how to protect corporate assets remains a widely debated topic. ...

I've been taken aback by attempts to publicly discount or distort Leondra Kruger's professional reputation and paint her as no...

Which branch - the judicial or executive - should be responsible for protecting a criminal defendant's right to obtain otherwi...

The object of this article and self-study test is to provide an overview of claims of exemption for judgment debtors.

The number of high profile breaches of personal data seems to be proliferating. Do victims have standing to sue the entity tha...

The past year saw several developments in environmental law at both state and federal levels, particularly regarding water sup...

Major California Environmental Quality Act reform continued to be elusive in 2014.

On the agenda for the Board of Trustees' regular meeting Friday is a discussion item proposing the appointment of a special co...

Judges have complained for years that patent lawyers don't write in plain English, and the U.S. Supreme Court joined the choru...

This year, there were significant developments in employment laws affecting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communi...

The 9th Circuit just issued a ruling joining several other circuits on the availability of the equitable remedy of "surcharge"...

I grew up on a steady diet of "football," and by that I mean soccer. Soccer was part of the family lore and lexicon. But recen...

Americans view their cars as literal and figurative vehicles of self-expression, not mere tools of transportation. So we can't...

The Court of Appeal's analysis in a recent case provides a much needed restatement of the jurisprudential independence of righ...