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Administrative/Regulatory, Government, California Supreme Court


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


Chairman Jay Clayton of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has reaffirmed that “[c]ybersecurity is an area that is vi...


Criminal, U.S. Supreme Court


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...


Constitutional Law, U.S. Supreme Court


Over the summer, Oregon federal public defenders asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review Mohamud v. United States, a terrorism ...


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...


Civil Litigation


When a class action litigant seeks to discover contact information for a third party--often with respect to potential class me...


At a recent business lunch, I was surprised to hear that many attendees (most of whom are practicing attorneys) pay their chil...


California Courts of Appeal, Government, California Supreme Court, Tax, Civil Litigation


Time will tell what a recent state high court decision means for local taxation. But it appears to make it easier to pass loca...


Intellectual Property, Corporate


Choosing the right name for your company from a branding perspective is important. Equally important, however, is avoiding a n...


Transportation, Administrative/Regulatory


While fully autonomous “level 5” vehicles are still some time out, scores of automakers are already introducing level 2 (parti...


Alternative Dispute Resolution, Civil Litigation


For years, complex civil matters in Riverside County were somewhat randomly distributed to departments throughout the county.


Administrative/Regulatory, Constitutional Law, U.S. Supreme Court, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The U.S. Supreme Court has a chance to set things right by granting certiorari in a case involving California’s commercial fis...


Securities, Civil Litigation, Administrative/Regulatory


According to Cornerstone Research, at midyear the number of filings against pharmaceutical companies already had eclipsed the ...


Contracts, Corporate


Many see the blockchain as the wild west of today’s technology sector due to its disruptive potential. As a result, developers...


Law Practice, Government


As a practicing city attorney, I sit through many hours of public meetings. I’ve probably seen just about everything from the ...


Law Practice, U.S. Supreme Court


There a several reasons for each of us in legal education and in the profession to broaden our own perspectives and evaluation...


U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property, Health Care & Hospital Law, Corporate, Contracts


For all the reference product sponsors about to enter into a patent dance under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovatio...


California Supreme Court, Appellate Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Civil Litigation, U.S. Supreme Court


Precedent sometimes rests upon a legal fiction, and persists until a later decision exposes the fiction for what it is.


Judges and Judiciary, Civil Litigation, Appellate Practice, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals



If Special Counsel Robert Mueller has opened a grand jury investigation, the witch has fallen from her broom and the dogs are ...


Health Care & Hospital Law


"Mindfulness" may be a buzzword these days, but it may also light the path to improving professional competence.


Corporate, Environmental & Energy


The extension of the cap-and-trade program is a major milestone for the state’s greenhouse gas reduction program. However, it ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


While U.S. VC activity appears to be in the middle of a self-correction period, the German venture market almost doubled in th...


Intellectual Property, Corporate


Many businesses, especially those in the tech sector, spend a great deal of time and money obtaining patents to protect their ...


Transportation


Lithium — the natural resource mined from the Earth’s crust — is perhaps the best-known commodity that people know the least a...


Insurance


It is believed that this decision is the first which extends the concept of computer “use” or “violation” to the practice of “...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Government, Administrative/Regulatory


While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated that the Senate would vote on health care legislation on Tuesday, it wa...


California Supreme Court, Government


Last week the Assembly and Senate judiciary committees approved amendments to a bill (Senate Bill 36, Jackson) that would make...