The challenge now is one of stemming the tide and reversing the growing public perception that SCOTUS no longer commands respe...

Twenty-four year old Frank Wills and I crossed the street to the restaurant on the Howard Johnson’s ground floor to get cheese...

It is not a good precedent for the most capable among us, however salutary the goal, to lob repeated verbal grenades at the ju...

Over the last year and a half we have seen an increased volume of complaints filed against SPAC boards in the Delaware Court o...

Jurisdictions are substantially consistent that current patent laws allow only natural persons as inventors. However, no juris...

It does not make a lot of sense to have a rule that permits a young adult to purchase an assault weapon, which can be used to ...

Egbert is disheartening because the court returns to its peculiar tradition of selectively shaving and trimming rights and rem...

To the extent the Great Reshuffling continues, there are likely to be more challenges raised to restrictive covenants, and mor...

Against the backdrop of a lingering pandemic and a jammed court system, California’s civil trial lawyers harness their creativ...

It’s hard to consider Depp’s defamation of Heard (which was actually done by Depp’s lawyer) as business-related. If a payment ...

This was Fritz Lang’s first American film after fleeing Nazi Germany. He based the story on an odious chapter in California hi...

Through the mediation of e-discovery issues, litigants can help address outsized litigation costs, curtail the time and costs ...

Now, the California rule rests on a shaky frame: The leading California case, St. Agnes, extols the United States Supre...

The anti-abortion states will not be satisfied with an abortion ban defined by the state line. The writing is on the wall. The...

This decision dramatically increases the value of meal and rest period claims in class actions and representative actions unde...

A full workday would remain eight hours, and employers would have to pay overtime to employees working longer than four full d...

The NRA doesn’t care that children have died as a result of their politicking, and they’re not even pretending they do anymore...

Richard White, Naming America’s Own Genocide, The Nation (August 17, 2016) Thus, the horror depicted in its presentation does ...

The fact that it was largely women who stepped up to pick up the slack should surprise no one. For years, women have taken on ...

Now SCOTUS is looking to expand Second Amendment rights through its consideration of the pending case of New York State Rifle ...

Using Bluebook style in state court is like talking with a foreign accent: you will be understood and accepted, but it’s not h...

Though we do not have a duty to actively assist our opponents in litigation in navigating an arcane system, we should make mor...

In our view, it is a mistake bordering on malpractice for the respondent's counsel to put off the opening statement.

Plaintiff lawyers can actually use a benefit most other people – including other lawyers – can’t: structured legal fees. Reduc...

Dressing a client to mislead a jury? It’s time to call it what it is - rank deception - and somehow put some limits on it.

The 4th District affirming the agreement between San Diego and private lawyers may encourage more public-private partnerships ...

These decisions will likely bring most SEC administrative proceedings to a screeching halt, at least in the Fifth Circuit.