Former California Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird was many things. One thing she was not: recalled.

An earlier - and longer - fire season, drought, a strained grid that needs upgrades, inflation and the war in Ukraine will con...

From the mediator’s perspective, bringing empathy to the mediation process can be a dangerous move, for a variety of reasons.

Even with the release of this transcript, a judge will likely still require Polanski to appear in person to allow for sentenci...

The Internal Revenue Service has been conducting sting operations for as long as we have had an Internal Revenue Service. Stin...

I didn’t fully comprehend that complying with these orders made me complicit in the court’s justice-denial, but conversations ...

History is the core of the decision in Dobbs and that court failed to thoroughly examine it, in contrast to California.

Attorney general of Texas has threatened the law firm of Sidley and Austin with criminal prosecution for paying expenses assoc...

While individual Justices are expected to have their own views on various constitutional issues, our system of government must...

For 50 years, on the issue of abortion and others, the people were controlled by decisions effected by “13 lawyers in robes” r...

A series of battles had led to this critical point – with many more skirmishes yet to come. California’s Rent Control War was ...

Attorney general of Texas has threatened the law firm of Sidley and Austin with criminal prosecution for paying expenses assoc...

Pinpointing the date of separation is a highly fact-based process that requires a court to consider the parties’ expressed int...

When a litigant who has lost in the trial court tells you that a win on appeal is certain, run away. If the litigant tells you...

Abusers have been known to try to interfere with their victims’ use of contraception, access to information, or have used coer...

Confidentiality provisions are increasingly common in personal injury cases. Plaintiffs’ lawyers must take precautions to prot...

According to the State Bar website, "paraprofessionals would handle routine matters in specified practice areas, intended to s...

Keep in mind that the operative issue is protection of the public health and safety from unknown contaminant exposure – not pr...

Justice Alito could have argued that protecting fetal life is a compelling governmental interest that justifies banning aborti...

The LA Superior Court is rolling out a new product – the Model Class Action Agreement – that standardizes the format of clas...

Happily, an “irrevocable” trust can be revoked, and there are ways to make it responsive when parents change their minds in th...

By ruling in favor of Viking, the Court held that employers may enforce arbitration agreements in California to the extent the...

In September 2019 - about the same time that the Covid epidemic began in China, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) publishe...

Of course, just as Democrats can pass a national law protecting abortion rights, so when there is a Republican President and a...