The U.S. Senate’s filibuster rule looms large, threatening to stymie both the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and President Joe B...

The number of Californians who drive under the influence of drugs or while intoxicated remains high — even amid a global pande...

In my experience, few large multimillion-dollar fee disputes ever reach trial or arbitration hearing. They settle, like the va...

In these polarizing times, civility is too often lacking -- and in 2021, California appellate courts made clear they were not ...

What appellate courts have said about Penal Code Section 1170.91

In California, the one final judgment rule is primary. However, there are exceptions -- for example, if an order is “collatera...

A few “resolutions” for attorneys aimed at fixing five bad habits that are all too common and that can create unnecessary risk...

The U.S. Supreme Court should hold that the challenges to the Biden administration’s unconstitutional, extra-statutory, and ar...

For tonight’s movie, we’re suggesting you stream “Inherit the Wind,” the classic 1960 film about the 1925 Scopes Monkey trial.

In a recent appellate decision vacating Purdue Pharma’s confirmed chapter 11 bankruptcy plan of reorganization, the U.S. Distr...

Unlike a deed of trust, a mechanics lien is an involuntary lien against real property. Any by “involuntary.” I mean you have n...

Accidental injury is America’s number three cause of death — you could call it our country’s other, less-talked-about pandemic...

Now’s the time for all those year-end retrospectives, so why not an appellatey annual review?

Will try to be optimistic about the future. Sorry, I can only try. But I can be certain about a resolution that is an acknowle...

Ongoing delays in the Court of Appeal have exposed weak links in the protections that were devised in response to a California...

Most lawyers think you win appeals with erudite dissertations on the law. Not me. The law matters, but the facts matter more.

By the time you read this I will be gone — from big law.

It is December, and everyone takes stock of what has transpired during the past year. Why should we be different? We have had ...

This year, the Court of Appeals maintained its role as one of the most prodigious sources of key environmental law decisions.

A recent appellate court ruling acknowledged that making express findings on each of the factors set forth in Family Code Sect...

The law and modern lawyering’s subtle role in setting forensic standards and a rhetorical tone necessary for democracy should ...

Despite the Legislature’s declaration and intent, “prompt” and “early” are words rarely used today to describe resolving most ...

It is in their moral and financial best interests to have diversity at all levels.

Through its new DashCorp subsidiary, the delivery service is now using workers to deliver meals in Manhattan, and these worker...

A bevy of new employment-related laws are set to come online in 2022. What follows is an overview of the most significant legi...

Where an elder is both the beneficiary a personal representative of a probate estate, he or she has standing to bring a claim ...

With critical patent questions before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals ...

Based on the pace of enforcement actions in the recent quarter, expect the number of cases to continue recovering from the mar...

A victim of domestic violence is expected to speak to dozens of players up and down the chain of our various legal systems, fr...

Hollywood got its first big case about non-fungible tokens last month when Miramax filed a federal lawsuit in Los Angeles agai...