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. ...

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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...

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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...

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

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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...