Employee stock options are a great perk, but they can be complicated. By Robert W. Wood
Since the current focus in Washington is on the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court, it is easy to overlook t...
Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary, Civil Rights
Doss v. Bernal was filed in 1943. The plaintiffs alleged that permitting Mexicans to live in the neighborhood would cause them...
Civil Rights, Administrative/Regulatory, Military Law, Government
New law is tough on homeless veterans
The Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017 raises serious due process issues and procedural barriers acut...
Administrative/Regulatory, Native Americans, Family
Critics distort Indian child welfare law
While the Indian Child Welfare Act has its detractors, numerous national child welfare organizations tout it as the "gold stan...
Administrative/Regulatory, Intellectual Property, Government
Patents in the cannabis industry
Although cannabis remains a Schedule I drug under federal law, the U.S. Patent Office is issuing utility patents and plant pat...
If we continue to "kick the can down the road," we do so at our own peril: Budgets could be slashed, services curtailed and ta...
On an unacceptable phenomenon and a brief encounter in the air.
Know and understand the Southern California deposition stipulation to project experience and protect your clients. By Davi...
Administrative/Regulatory, Securities, Corporate
Growing risk of insider trading on data breaches
Shortly after the major Equifax hack, the SEC and Department of Justice opened insider trading investigations based on allegat...
A recent Delaware Court of Chancery decision serves as a good reminder regarding best practices and current laws when Californ...
Constitutional Law, U.S. Supreme Court, Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Beginning to see the light
Some things cannot be unseen. Last term, the U.S. Supreme Court held that judges could -- and, indeed, must -- open their eyes...
Transportation, Corporate, Administrative/Regulatory
Our auto recall system is seriously broken
Last week, Nissan added its name to a long list of automotive manufacturers who have been ensnared in public controversy over ...
Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Civil Litigation
Memo to the bench: civil jury selection is different
California judges presiding over civil trials often restrict jury selection in contravention of the law pertaining to this cri...
Securities, Government, Administrative/Regulatory
SEC goes after its first initial coin offering
On Sept. 29, the SEC issued its first civil complaint against two companies and their founder for violating anti-fraud and re...
Labor/Employment, U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Litigation, Corporate
Yellow dog contracts, ‘jiggery-pokery’ and the FAA
As Justice Breyer intimated, a Supreme Court decision allowing employer prohibitions on employee class actions would "overturn...
Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Corporate
One-stop shop for business and commercial litigation
Wouldn't it be nice to have everything one needs to know collected in one place? Enter "Business and Commercial Litigation in...
Transportation, Government, Administrative/Regulatory
A federal judge recently held that portions of the city of Newton, Massachusetts's ordinance attempting to regulate unmanned a...
Contracting parties might agree to a forum selection clause for any number of reasons: to ensure favorable legal precedent, to...
U.S. Supreme Court, Labor/Employment, Government, Constitutional Law
Time to overrule Abood
The U.S. Supreme Court described laws that empower unions to coerce funds from non-union members as an “extraordinary state en...
There is a cost to be paid for the myriad benefits society derives from the use of algorithms. An occasional “date from hell,”...
Civil Rights, U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
Another take on Cake at the US high court
So here’s where we are in Masterpiece Cakeshop: The lineup of eight of the justices is pretty clear, 4-to-4.
California Supreme Court, Government, Administrative/Regulatory
A city manager’s personal cellphone buzzes in the early morning hours with notice of a string of urgent texts advising about t...
Securities, Government, Corporate, Administrative/Regulatory
SEC announces creation of new ‘Cyber Unit’
Chairman Jay Clayton of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has reaffirmed that “[c]ybersecurity is an area that is vi...
The justices should take up U.S. v. Nosal to clarify the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act -- the statute was intended...
Constitutional Law, California Supreme Court
Carpenter v. United States implicates what is known as the third-party doctrine, under which any information voluntarily provi...
Over the summer, Oregon federal public defenders asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review Mohamud v. United States, a terrorism ...
Real Estate/Development
A primer on how the attorney-client privilege functions in the realm of trust administration. By Benjamin D. Fox
Two recent amendments have important practical implications for private corporations and create a framework for significant ch...
When a class action litigant seeks to discover contact information for a third party--often with respect to potential class me...