A recent federal district court decision illustrates the contours of the voluntary cessation doctrine and provides a roadmap o...

It’s been a bellwether year– procedurally – for the anti-SLAPP statute in cases involving lawyers.

Words are a lawyer’s stock in trade. Law is all about words: the interpretation of a statute or contract, the persuasion of a ...

Rarely in American history has the Supreme Court ever taken a right away, but 2022 taught us that precedent matters little in ...

Persuasive writers must use the same techniques as their trial lawyer counterparts who employ persuasion science to increase t...

Even though employers have raised wages and offered signing bonuses, there are still help wanted signs in almost every store a...

These so called “mini-TCPA” statutes affect businesses looking to electronically solicit customers in those states – even if y...

Judge William A. Fletcher, one of the judges in the original 2-1 panel majority upholding AB 51, switched sides on Appellant’s...

Going forward, although bonus depreciation is the first of the tax benefits being reduced or phased out, it is by no means the...

I thought I could persuade a Sutter County jury of conservative farmers to acquit a welfare recipient with the right ap...

The most effective lawyers at cross-examination ask only questions calling for a “yes” or “no” answer.

Directly bankrolling a client's funds will raise the ire of defense counsel and compromise a client's case. It can also raise ...

The IRAC formula is one surefire promise of success in litigation.

Employers who round time adjust employees’ hours worked might have made sense in a pre-technology era in which handwritten tim...

Code of Civil Procedure sections 225 and 229 specify grounds for a cause challenge based upon bias, either implied or actual. ...

If you like practicing in an area of law where you can go to a book and look up the answer, don’t become a water lawyer in Cal...

We see a surprising number of briefs that level ad hominem attacks on the opposing party, opposing counsel, and the trial judg...

The recent Minnesota district court decision suggests that a "data breach" triggering cyber coverage may occur where a bad act...

The Legislature could preserve daily overtime generally while providing scheduling flexibility by allowing individual employee...

One Supreme Court case could change the Internet as we know it

Why no one was ever brought to justice for this crime remains a puzzling enigma.

The Commission voted unanimously on each of the names it recommended for renaming.

“[T]he Kartons [came] out swinging, apparently believing the best defense is a good offense. This approach demonstrates the tr...

If all the opinion accomplishes is preventing penalties, the client won’t be happy.

Five years after #MeToo, survivors of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault finally have a statute of limitations bill to call the...

The California Supreme Court is considering review of an appellate court’s ability to reverse an arbitrator’s decision to enfo...

With the Second Appellate District's partial publication of its decision in Allen v. Staples, Inc., 84 Cal.App.5th 188 ...

“Primary assumption of the risk does not grant unbridled legal immunity to all defendants, and an owner or operator still has ...

When a party acknowledges their mistakes and commits to correcting them, case settlement and better case outcomes are not only...

The law recognizes that clients may have inequitable bargaining power when negotiating a relationship with a lawyer. To that e...