At a symposium on deported veterans one of “the foremost authority on military veterans facing deportation” said that recruite...

California Probate Code Section 17206 provides broad discretion to the probate court to “make any orders and take any other ac...

How far the Supreme Court’s holding in the infamous Kelo decision goes (or whether it should be reconsidered and reversed) is ...

In 1948, the California Supreme Court became the first state in the nation to rule that such laws violate equal protection rig...

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As the economy sputters to recover, we can expect a solid flow of legal settlements.

Should cross-examination be required in school disciplinary proceedings? This question has taken on renewed importance with th...

Judge David O. Carter wrote, “Virtually every citizen of Los Angeles has borne the impacts of the City and County’s continued ...

In such unprecedented times, it is not surprising that federal legislation grants certain immunity to manufacturers of COVID-1...

The Derek Chauvin case could be an outlier, or it could signal a true turning point in the nation’s move toward justice, and t...

On April 9, U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen reversed an earlier finding that Proposition 22, the California ballot measure ...

In many ways, the plane is being built in mid-air. Concrete statements about what an NFT can or cannot do, and even what it is...

It is an oft-repeated mantra that with large government spending comes large amounts of fraud. The Paycheck Protection Program...

In a recent case in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, we achieved a five-year negotiated prison sentence for a defendant ...

The object of this article and self-study test is to familiarize readers with the plain view doctrine pertaining to the law of...

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in a case to address the scope discovery in international arbitration.

This year, March Madness was more than just a couple of basketball tournaments with Stanford and Baylor cutting down the nets.

An appellate court recently affirmed a punitive damages award that was largely based on damages that the plaintiffs could not ...

Our duty to uphold the rule of law includes supporting judicial safety.

At the helm of UCLA Law School since 2015, Mnookin ticks all the boxes as an academic and legal community leader.

With the resumption of post-pandemic life, California families are bringing workers back into their homes.

Stone, a confidant and friend of former President Donald Trump, was pardoned by Trump in 2020 just days before beginning to se...

In the last two installations we discussed mindset/attitude and how to prepare for a mediation. In this installment, we will d...

Over the past year, appellate courts in California have been active in deciding arbitration issues. Here are a few of the impo...

It seems that the relatively obscure and technoid topic of APIs had a moment of fame when the recent Supreme Court ruling was ...

A recent Tax Court decision may provide some lessons for legal settlements.

Sensible regulations should be passed at the federal and state level that preclude use of facial recognition technology. Sensi...

As California practitioners know, Section 2019.210 of the California Uniform Trade Secrets Act requires that “before commencin...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office created a process to prioritize examination of trademark applications covering certain CO...

Earlier this year, the 9th Circuit altered the statutory damages landscape in cases involving multiple defendants.