Technology, Judges and Judiciary
Can AI pick your judge for the win?
By Paul F. Rafferty
Great judging escapes the predictability that AI promises, and lawyers who settle for AI predictability will never inspire tha...
While the courts seemingly agreed that the closure and stay-at-home orders alone do not trigger coverage under property insura...
Litigation & Arbitration, Contracts
So you think you have a binding arbitration agreement?
By David I. Brown
You may have waived it. What California businesses and employers need to know.
Technology, Data Privacy
Cyber mercenaries turn mobile phones into spying devices
By Anita Taff-Rice
Government, Ediscovery
The Pitchess motion: obtaining law enforcement personnel records
By Emily R. Pincin
The first step in a Pitchess motion is a showing of good cause for disclosure of the records and the materiality of the...
Technology, Law Practice, Appellate Practice
Lawyers wary of AI are missing the big picture
By Lance Eliot
If an attorney can do more work than they used to do, you presumably won’t need the same number of lawyers that you would when...
Class Action
Navigating requests for class contact information before class certification
By R. Joseph Barton, Colin M. Downes
Defendants frequently resist requests to produce such data before class certification and assert a concern for the privacy int...
Government, Environmental & Energy
States are riding the coattails of federal govt. environment policies
By McGregor Scott, Oliver Thoma
After two years of federal-state environmental justice initiatives, are state attorneys generals letting the feds do all the w...
Entertainment & Sports
Stream it Tonight! Philadelphia (1993)
By Paul Bergman, Michael Asimow
Under the movie industry’s censorship code, which remained in effect from 1934 to 1968, homosexuality was a subject that didn’...
Technology, Law Practice, Appellate Practice
The future of artificial intelligence in law firms
By Sasha Rao
For the skeptics out there, AI’s impact on the legal industry is relatively nascent.
Law Practice, Appellate Practice
Best practices for social security disability hearings
By Meghan Pluimer
Staying in touch with your client on a monthly basis reduces the chance that you will lose contact with the client, increases ...
Law Practice, Appellate Practice
Tips for drafting a civil complaint
By Anne Schneider
Research federal, state and local rules to determine if there are any specific requirements you must adhere to in drafting you...
Litigation & Arbitration
Successful mediation is a two-way street
By Angela Reddock-Wright
Attorneys are expected to get a “win” for the client and must be seen as taking a strong stand on their behalf. This is laudab...
Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Appellate Practice
Reporting lawyer misconduct is just good business
By Arash Homampour
The harsh reality is that if one of our peers crosses a line, we generally turn a blind eye, many times for fear of reprisal.
Administrative/Regulatory
Amendments to California franchise laws in the New Year
By Barry Kurtz, Matthew J. Soroky
The amendments are largely technical updates supported and advocated by many franchisee organizations, but represent significa...
Criminal, Banking
White (collar) lies: no intangible property right to accurate information under the wire fraud statute
By Randy K. Jones, Ryan Dougherty
The right to control theory may soon be history, but Ciminelli probably won't produce a single, unified guideline restr...
Intellectual Property
Voluntary cessation doctrine in trademark cases
By David Martinez, Tommy H. Du
A recent federal district court decision illustrates the contours of the voluntary cessation doctrine and provides a roadmap o...
Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
2022 in Review: Cases Involving Lawyers
By Alex A. Graft, Kenneth C. Feldman
It’s been a bellwether year– procedurally – for the anti-SLAPP statute in cases involving lawyers.
Law Practice, Appellate Practice
Powerful legal communication
By Reza Torkzadeh, Allen P. Wilkinson
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...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Uncertain fate of AB 51 and PAGA arbitration prohibition
By Dariush Adli
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...
Law Practice, Appellate Practice
Trial tips for direct and cross-examination
By Dan L. Stanford
The most effective lawyers at cross-examination ask only questions calling for a “yes” or “no” answer.
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
The benefits of “on lien” compensation models in PI cases
By Matt Zar, Survam Patel
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.