A footnote in a recent opinion raises questions about the role of deposition testimony in insurance cases. ...

Last week, proponents of the "Six Californias" initiative submitted signatures to the secretary of state, which may get it on ...

In light of recent state Supreme Court decisions, employers should review existing arbitration agreements to ensure they are i...

In many ways, the criminal justice system has become too punitive. The U.S. has only five percent of the world's population, b...

Insurance company collateral estoppel arguments in a choice-of-law context should be rejected. By Steven E. Knott ...

When an insurers sue to confirm that they owes no coverage, insureds can find themselves litigating on two fronts. ...

Over the last couple of weeks, almost every headline about the recent Scarlett Johansson defamation lawsuit has proclaimed tha...

On a close reading, the decision turns out to be not especially path-breaking, neither really curbing nor expanding the use of...

The pervasiveness of human trafficking in Cambodia is fightening, but the problem also plagues our own backyard. ...

The question of allowing an employee to telecommute becomes substantially more complex if the employee is an individual with a...

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in McCullen v. Coakley necessitates new legislation across the country to safeguard t...

Fables are not just for children. In Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that ERISA fiduciarie...

Long before the national media shines its spotlight on a growing injustice, legal aid lawyers likely have already spent years ...

The debate over fracking continues nationwide, but in California there is an increasing focus on one major issue: water supply.

The recent decision in Ayala v. Antelope Valley Newspapers Inc. aside, plaintiffs in independent contractor misclassification ...

Mediators walk a razor-thin line on searching for "the truth" in a dispute; Most are more interested in identifying areas wher...

A recent decision provides authority to request that district courts affirm the reliability of an expert's opinion before admi...

A state Supreme Court decision cast doubt onto the constitutionality of public employees being compelled to pay dues to the un...

As the numbers of petitions for USPTO trials filed have increased, little attention has been focused on a related and equally ...

Mired as we Americans are now in the never-ending Affordable Care Act debate, it is often difficult to stay focused on the wor...

California environmental regulators breathed a sigh of relief last month, when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Calif...

The majority opinion fails to square itself with Supreme Court precedent.

Not all errors at trial require a retrial. The state Supreme Court is in the midst of deciding which do and which do not when ...

I take issue with several points made by Steven Katz in his recent column on the state Supreme Court's recent decision in Iska...

What makes Glass truly powerful is not just its technological specifications, but what it allows Google to potentially do in t...

The high court's term completed earlier last week appears noteworthy for how the justices mostly decided big cases in cautious...

Lawyers must be highly tuned to the world about them. Success depends on recognizing and confronting the unpleasant vicissitud...

The decision highlights a trend among the Roberts court where there is frequently unanimity without consensus. By Scott J. Wit...

On June 30, the state Supreme Court issued the third in a recent string of employment class action decisions that will have a ...

A recent 9th Circuit decision provides trucking companies further cause to worry as they battle claims for misclassifying driv...