On Aug 3, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a nationwide residential eviction moratorium continuing the ba...

Although subject to a number of rules and qualifications, judicial notice is often the easiest way for a trial or appellate co...

The first time I saw that response to a petition for writ of mandate I’d filed in an appellate court, I did not take it well. ...

An injunction can be prohibitory or mandatory, and the distinction matters. But creative lawyers may attempt to obfuscate an i...

Determining the amount of support in a marital dissolution action is relatively simple and straightforward when the parties ha...

First, think of an elephant. It probably took you only an instant to picture an elephant, or think something about an elephant...

The U.S. Department of Justice’s increased focus on the private equity sector in recent years has coincided with that sector’s...

Attorneys from Beverly Hills’ Johnson & Johnson LLP review some of the latest developments in music litigation over the pa...

Decades of underbuilding, largely due to red tape imposed by prohibitive land use laws, has pushed California into a housing c...

President Joe Biden proposed a 43.4% capital gain rate, but it is supposed to hit only those earning $1 million or more. Of co...

"All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days: An American Woman at the Heart of the Resistance to Hitler," by Rebecca Donner (Random ...

The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are the only judges in our country who are not subject to a code of judicial ethic...

Legal handwringing is taking place about the increasing use by the U.S. Supreme Court of a shadow dockets approach that produc...

Attorneys from Johnson & Johnson LLP in Beverly Hills review recent developments affecting music litigation. MCLE available.

A district court in Arizona recently directed the EPA and Army Corps to apply the pre-2015 standard for Clean Water Act jurisd...

For generations, it did not seem possible that college athletes could earn big before they went pro. Some star high school ath...

Quite often the thing that your client fears will harm the case is irrelevant and not be admissible at trial to begin with.

CEQA analysis of climate change has shifted. The alarm bell’s focus must include raising public awareness about how climate ch...

The statutory presumption of at-will employment, codified in California Labor Code Section 2922, remains an unjust vestige of ...

America’s longstanding antitrust policy is under fierce attack. What was once a relatively insipid area of law characterized b...

The Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance on July 28 outlawing camping around parks, libraries and other public buildin...

What has been missing from the discussion of the Texas law prohibiting abortions is why it was structured to allow only civil ...

Last week, about eight months after taking office, President Joe Biden finally announced that enough is enough and ordered tha...

S.B. 8 sets procedural traps, but providers and advocates can overcome them through the ordinary processes of presenting const...

Two years ago, Kathy Williams, a Missouri woman, fell down a flight of stairs in her home and died. Her blood alcohol level wa...

How fortunate we are to have Professors Paul Bergman and Michael Asimow again offering invaluable insights into the movies we ...

You know that feeling you get when you want to yell at the screen because a fictional lawyer in a television show mishandled a...

In his latest installment documenting his in-person trial gone remote, Kiesel discusses training the jury to participate remot...

A recent case questions whether a single “co-registered” owner could validly consent to the tracking of a vehicle driven prima...

A recent appellate opinion will serve as a stark warning to defense counsel to advise their clients about the risks, and not j...