On July 17, 1944, a ship being loaded with bombs and ammunition near San Francisco Bay exploded, instantly killing 320 men and...

Understanding your client’s expectations, learning more about your client’s perceptions of the legal system and your client’s ...

Mutliparty cases present special challenges for not only the mediator, but also the lawyers, their clients and the insurance c...

What might be novel is that a state with opposing politics, i.e., Texas, decided to use the same system.

California has its clean car authority back. Now the question is how aggressively it will wield that newly restored power to p...

Had Vince Lombardi coached mediators and not football players, his famous proverb might sound something like this: “Great comm...

By harnessing the power of mediation, the sole or small firm practitioner can drive home the options if an agreement is not re...

On March 10, the California Supreme Court announced that it has declined to weigh in — for now — on the biggest brewing insura...

The Los Angeles DA’s epiphany that his blanket Youth Justice Policy was a mistake is little solace to the families of murder v...

The California Consumer Privacy Act, widely hailed as the most stringent consumer privacy law in the country, has produced a m...

In a recent ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court penned the latest chapter in what might be called “The Chronicles of Crawford.”

Over the past year, I have written about myriad litigation-related topics — yet, I have never written about the litigants them...

For countless law enforcement agencies, the scope of disclosures they are legally required to make often turns on what constit...

When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Senate Bill 98, media groups hailed its passage and reported that it “exempts media professi...

Trial lawyers juggle many balls at once — and the balls keep changing as the case moves along. Appellants’ lawyers are on a di...

With the threat of COVID not entirely behind us yet, it’s crucial now more than ever to embrace the changes the pandemic has b...

Tax audits are unnerving and can be expensive. Even if you end up with the coveted “no change” letter that is the stuff of leg...

Last month, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. On Monday, the Senate Judicia...

While the factual circumstances underlying COVID-19 negligence lawsuits may be as novel as the virus itself and often present ...

Along with all the other social impacts, the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reshaped the workplace and much of employment...

Under Article IX, section 9, the Legislature has no authority to rename the college, and that constitutional provision more br...

Though a fair amount of uncertainty remains about the timing and final design of NEM 3.0, the critical question is whether sta...

Nearly 60 years after the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright, we still see public defender offices across t...

Recent changes in federal and state law that shrink the scope of arbitration and confidentiality clauses will affect how cases...

Let’s say a PAGA plaintiff has a past felony conviction for armed robbery or is going to be incarcerated during the pendency o...

I wish I could name two or three factors to look for, but alas, there isn’t a checklist or litmus test for identifying wrongfu...

Subrogation is commonly described as a legal device that allows one person to "step into the shoes" of another in relation to ...

Since 9/11, the circumstances in which agencies have wielded this doctrine have become increasingly less exceptional. A recent...

San Francisco’s District Attorney Chesa Boudin recently revealed that the city’s police department has a practice of saving DN...