At its heart, the celebration is an opportunity to connect the pro bono community across the nation by showcasing the incredib...

The Supreme Court's decisions about airplane cargo loaders and in-state delivery drivers undermine the Ninth Circuit's interpr...

Financial fraud is becoming a cost of doing business, with no real repercussion other than monetary loss to a defendant that c...

Intrastate movement of the new good, created in-state, is not the same good that came from out-of-state.

Once broadly and robustly applied to statutory interpretation in this country, the rule of lenity has fallen into relative dis...

If the purpose of 998 offers is to facilitate settlement by disincentivizing plaintiffs to proceed to trial in the face of rea...

If victims of sexual assault avert further harm by making their stories public, the same should be true for minorities and the...

The United States Supreme Court may soon decide whether appeals from orders denying arbitration automatically stay liti...

Creating a distinction in Section 5314 between the reporting form and the reporting itself is nothing more than a creative dis...

Including disabled professionals in our employment efforts is our moral obligation, professional responsibility, and legal obl...

The claims in Hanagami involved a registered copyrighted work, which allowed the Court to dismiss the claims after enga...

“Reforms” have resulted in weakened criminal accountability and a revolving door of justice – the perfect formula for increasi...

The circuit split that must be resolved in Bittner - with the Ninth and Fifth Circuits offering competing but both argu...

Someone with cancer often faces unexpected challenges, and though they might not need a lawyer, they may need to know their ri...

California gave courts $30 million this year to hire reporters for family and civil courtrooms. LASC received $9 million, but ...

It is time for either the California Supreme Court to revisit its earlier decisions in light of the clear holdings and analysi...

Plaintiff’s attorneys should guard closely against improper attempts by the defense to sweep wrongful death actions based on e...

This Court understands that once someone is compelled to violate their religious precepts, is precluded from speaking, or is p...

The Big Ten conference has always been a major draw in college sports, so it is no surprise that prestigious schools have rece...

Trial courts are likely to and should impose real limits on expert opinions regarding “possible” alternative causes under well...

In 2013, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law SB 274, granting California’s family and juvenile courts the discretion to recognize...

Even with rape shield laws in place, defense lawyers frequently argue that the victim consented. Such trials can be a harrowin...

When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1041 into law, he made it possible for California employees to take leave to care ...

Are arbitrators actually compelling virtual hearings over the objection of resistant parties?

Cyber attacks are also an issue, where the largest number of attacks are launched against professional organizations, includin...

The rule will help to stop criminal actors, including oligarchs, kleptocrats, drug traffickers, human traffickers, and those w...

The law opens the door for judicial professionals who meet the law’s criteria to step into new and important roles, such as wo...

The outcome of this case will have real-world implications on the fate of individual beneficiaries of programs such as Medicai...

Cyber attacks are also an issue, where the largest number of attacks are launched against professional organizations, includin...