California’s Family Law Courts are quietly changing how they serve divorcing couples and their families. Here’s an easy fix.

Employees who are monitored at their computers report feeling compelled to hit the keys just to register activity, while wareh...

Over the last year, harassers, predators, and thoughtless co-workers alike have found their way into communicating their inapp...

Sending a personal manager to the Labor Commissioner for procuring employment for an artist is like sending someone to traffic...

As new technology develops, it seems that the requirement of human expression, whether in creating an original work or transfo...

Automated time entry and billing have replaced old billing techniques like timeslips and repetitive time review with computer-...

A preliminary hearing provides important tools, sometimes overlooked, for an aggressive defense approach before trial.

At times those techniques seemed counterintuitive to litigators like me, but I can tell you from personal experience, what Mr....

It is too soon to celebrate. Bureaucratic challenges associated with insurance rate changes will delay implementation of the n...

What we don’t know yet is what other birth defects or conditions will develop in the children of parents who were exposed to t...

The legal community has lost another giant.

It’s not over yet, but 2022 already has proven to be another blockbuster year for trade secret litigation. Between big verdict...

If stare decisis is too readily discarded, then the Constitution becomes “nothing more than what five Justices say it is” at a...

A parent’s ability to become beneficiaries of a trust set up for their children is a powerful tool – and a way to reassure cl...

There is a separate body of law that butts up against government code design immunity protections, which provides that a publi...

If the injuries to or death of a person are due to the actions of an animal that had theretofore been of peaceable disposition...

Bring in appellate counsel to consult while the case is still in the trial court if your later and ultimate goal is to ...

Not a single patent appeal was heard last term. This year, some IP cases may get the golden ticket.

Judges have been bifurcating trials sua sponte to dispose of legal issues first, which may encourage settlements as to the rem...

So lately grammar, its metamorphosis, something like K’s Metamorphoses, has become de rigueur.

Data shows number of environmental review lawsuits remain low while California communities reap benefits from strong protections

California’s current inadequate limits disproportionately impact low-income consumers who may either purchase a minimum-limits...

Surely many witnesses have second thoughts when their testimony results in harsh sentences, and some jurors may make up their ...

Assembly Bill 2449 allows members of a legislative body to participate via teleconferenced meetings outside of a state of emer...

Assembly Bill 156, signed by Governor Newsom on Sept. 27, will help attorneys and consumers recognize whether they have a lice...

The question presented, as formulated by the Court is: "Did the Ninth Circuit set forth the proper test for determining whethe...

Although running or capping can be criminal activity subject to fines and imprisonment, they also carry other potential conseq...

While it may not be obvious at first glance, the Texas Two-Step cuteness and other similar bankruptcy ploys that scream bad fa...

A lawyer like Rich Hutton comes along once in a lifetime. All we can do to pay tribute to him is to practice law like he did –...