A five-justice majority of the California Supreme Court recently held that appellate courts owed no deference to a trial court...

It is time to approach the officials with ultimate responsibility over legal ethics and the delivery of competent legal servic...

No one plans a pandemic, but ultimately someone must pay for it. In the United States, lawmakers have responded to the crisis ...

In Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, a six-justice U.S. Supreme Court majority sent a message to the country: If you...

Sisters Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian won their suit for royalties from the makeup line Kardashian Beauty.

In these bi-monthly columns, I pontificate on appellate brief writing from my lofty perch as an appellate know-it-all. But do ...

The objective of this article and accompanying self-study quiz is to familiarize readers with California law and motion proced...

Part 2: The duties owed by partners of afflicted lawyer

Many attorneys anticipate the meet-and-confer process as eagerly as a dentist visit, but it can nonetheless prove useful; in m...

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld your constitutional right to privacy of association. On July 1, in a 6-3 opinion in American...

In my many years as a litigation and trial lawyer, I recommended and helped select a lot of mediators. I also participated in ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has another opportunity to finally end the battle over the enforceability of pre-dispute arbitration ag...

Candace Cooper, formerly of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, discusses her experience on the bench.

California’s historic adoption of new ethics rules in 2018 is now behind us, but the switch to the American Bar Association’s ...

Some assert that the advent of AI has increasingly become unruly and is precipitously veering toward lawlessness. AI systems a...

Typically, subrogation is a matter of contract and the rights and responsibilities of parties are set forth within the terms o...

According to data from the last Homeless Count in 2020, the city will have to house more than 66,000 people. Now it’s time to ...

The Britney scenario is an embarrassment to the California justice system. One can only hope that those who are involved with...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in a case in which plaintiff members of two ERISA pension plans claimed tha...

It will come as no surprise to practitioners that discovery issues routinely arise in family law cases. This makes perfect sen...

As businesses across the nation were buffeted by the pandemic last year, we witnessed an unprecedented number of closures and ...

Part 1: The duties owed by afflicted lawyers

In 1972, the U.S. Congress passed the Clean Water Act in response to the realization that a large number of rivers, lakes and ...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s October 2020 term which ended on July 2 should be seen as a reminder of the basic reality: It is a ve...

The law is a haunted house. Haunted by ghosts, by our past.

It is often posited that family law is like the Wild West of litigation -- anything goes.

Even as the State Bar of California acknowledges mistakes regarding its stunning failure of regulatory oversight in the matter...

Just think if James Joyce were writing his magnum opus “Finnegans Wake” today on a computer, auto correct would drive him over...

Last month, California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a statement to creditors and debt collectors that it would be illegal...

Last month the Supreme Court affirmed a Northern District of California judgment finding that the NCAA had violated antitrust ...