Last month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality of an ordinance barring religious and charitabl...

Many have addressed the wisdom of proposed changes to Canon 2C of the Code of Judicial Ethics, but few have addressed its cons...

Edwin McPherson's article titled "TAA Violation for Record Producer Deal" (Aug. 18) discussed a recent decision by the labor c...

In the ordinary criminal case, if an accused's conduct is prohibited by the plain text of a statutory provision, the person is...

In the wake of the 6.0 earthquake that rocked Napa last month, property owners are now facing the financial fallout from the l...

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Despite the bravado and confidence that judges and lawyers on occasion display, those who are truly enlightened know that the ...

In legal writing, don't give in to the urge to exclaim. ...

Anyone who has ever mediated a case, as an advocate or as the neutral, looks back at a marathon mediation session with either ...

The State Bar is now sending proposed rules of professional conduct up to the state Supreme Court one by one for formal adopti...

Patent protection is important to innovators in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals because it protects their substantial invest...

Manufacturers of reference products and biosimilars await further guidance from the Federal Circuit as to the metes and bounds...

Many fundamental issues concerning the BPCIA remain unresolved, making this regulatory pathway unattractive to some potential ...

In mediation, many different factors create "power" and "torque." But it's not always the case that those lead to "work," whic...

A new decision is instructive in how to draft tax-sharing agreements that specify each subsidiary's tax liability in a consoli...

The U.S. Supreme Court stayed of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' recent 2-1 decision holding that Virginia's limiting m...

On July 16, Judge Cormac Carney, ignoring the opinions of the U.S. and state Supreme Courts to the contrary, declared the Cali...

The objective of this article and self-study test is to review the principles and recent case authority concerning the Fourth ...

Recent California court decisions may make it more difficult for plaintiffs to bring lawsuits against businesses that record c...

Assistive animals are capable of helping individuals with a wide range of disabilities, allowing them to more fully access the...

Wine fraud is on the rise. Americans are drinking and collecting more expensive wine than ever, resulting in a flood of count...

One commonality between the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri and the one in South Central Los Angeles days later is the s...

A new decision by the California labor commissioner is the first in which a manager was determined to have violated the state'...

Inversions are not new. Yet in a short period of time they have undergone a rather startling metamorphosis. ...

Data breaches unfortunately have become a fact of life on the Internet, and users will have to change their routines according...

While there is often a political component to using public labor agreements, there is also increasing recognition that they ar...

Cities throughout California are looking for development partners to revitalize downtown districts, create value in suburban n...

Brinker is an iconic decision clarifying the procedural standards of class certification and the substantive law rules ...

The state Legislature needs to enact currently pending legislation to protect low-wage workers from all too-common wage theft....

AB 1014 is common sense regulation, much like existing laws prohibiting the possession of firearms by individuals under domest...