General counsel bring unique insight to mediations based on what they've seen work--and fail. Recognizing what in-house counse...

Copyright law's reliance on judges to parse art yields predictably flawed results--evident in Yonay v. Paramount, whe...

New brain science reveals what happens when lawyers let AI do the cognitive work.

After years of attempts, California has amended the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act to let judges lower t...

Federal contractors are supposed to give hiring preferences to veterans, but the Department of Labor lets them off the hook.

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Chief Justice John Roberts' 2025 year-end report on the federal judiciary fails to address President Donald Trump's attacks on...

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Despite a sharp rise in civil filings, the Civil Division has eliminated trial backlogs in Department 1--thanks to judicial co...

Twenty years in California's criminal courts reveal a clear pattern: The system doesn't need radical overhaul--it needs practi...

Britain's control of Iran's oil industry in the 20th century was technically successful but politically catastrophic. The less...

Netflix's $72 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery tests the limits of antitrust enforcement in the streaming era--and revea...

From Supreme Court shifts to standout rulings, 2025 sparked plenty of appellate headlines--this column tours the year's top le...

California's bail system crisis isn't the result of recent reforms--it stems from courts refusing to follow constitutional req...

Retired but not retreating, I reflect on titles, time, and a judicial legacy that--like the law itself--sometimes loops back c...

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By declining review in Kennedy Commission, the California Supreme Court let stand a ruling that sharpens a pivotal qu...

Our legal system often gets outcomes wrong not because the law is unknowable, but because humans are poorly equipped to judge ...

At the intersection of Saticoy Street and Topanga Canyon Boulevard in Canoga Park, a newly rebuilt crosswalk tells a troubling...

California now requires lawyers to pledge civility, but rules alone can't fix a profession--or a society--that has forgotten t...