Indirect patent infringement, by inducement, isn't a strict liability offense, so companies with a good-faith belief that thei...

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Our nation's courts are best served when filled by diverse qualified jurists applying their unique perspective and understandi...

The automotive world is under siege as unrelenting media coverage exposes more details about a massive, worldwide recall invol...

he Uniform Commercial Code has become the "forgotten code" when it comes to agreements to acquire a business in an asset purch...

The July California bar exam results are not good: Only 48 percent of first-time takers passed, the lowest rate in 10 years. B...

There has been a troubling trend developing for some time regarding perceptions of who the law serves in our society - and it ...

On Nov. 14, Sirius XM was hit with a difficult-to-tune-out court ruling in favor of the 1960s rock band the Turtles in a dispu...

When you are arguing a case and the judge is staring into space, seemingly shutting you and your argument out of her conscious...

While it's now codified in the California Labor Code, there has long been judicial protection for those wrongly accused of, an...

If history is any guide, these are times that could try the soul of the State Bar.

Retired Justice Rick Sims' well-thought out article might well be summed up in a single sentence: "If you loved Rose Bird, you...

Not until President Dwight Eisenhower was in office did an issue arise over appointing only justices with prior judicial exper...

The California Air Resources Board is poised to readopt the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulation in early 2015.

Do a law firm's fiduciary and ethical duties to its current clients trump the attorney-client privilege? Last month, a Califor...

Typically a plaintiff's lawyer in a wrongful termination lawsuit does not publish articles arguing his case to the public. But...

The immediate aftermath of an adverse judgment can be chaotic and it is easy to lose sight of the procedural requirements for ...

The California Supreme Court is finally poised to hear and decide a landmark California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, ca...

As a retired judge who spent 30 years in the California judiciary, I oppose the appointment of Leondra Kruger to the Californi...

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California Attorney General Kamala Harris is to be congratulated on her recent reelection. She has been a powerful and effecti...

Every rock 'n' roll fan knows the opening to "Stairway to Heaven," Led Zeppelin's iconic 1971 hit. But another band popular at...

No indictment, no justice, in the cold blooded killing, of unarmed African-American youth, Michael Brown, by Ferguson, Missour...

The best lawyers have a life because they have an understanding of civic activity, community, family and intellectualism - whi...

Few legal concepts can unite the nation in disbelief, but civil forfeiture laws turn the American ideal of "innocent until pro...

Although not a perfect solution, consumers harmed by "super-omnibus" indemnity clauses in California can take some solace in t...

When may an anonymous tip provide the basis for reasonable suspicion to allow a police officer to stop and briefly detain an i...

A recent case address the all-too-common scenario occurs where a client's "trusted" employee, accounting manager, bookkeeper o...