Lawyers tend to discover that their reputation plays a significant role in how their lawyering career progresses. This is not ...

The tribunal had the colossal mission of bringing to justice a total of 199 accused war criminals during a series of 13 trials...

Governor Gavin Newsom’s signature on a package of peace officer reform bills will significantly affect and create additional r...

In his Oct. 20 column, “Our justice system must become more victim-centric, retired Judge Eugene M. Hyman argues that “the sys...

The objective of this article and self-study test is to review the rules applicable to the appointment of conservators and the...

Last month, a U.S. district court granted summary judgment to environmental plaintiff WildEarth Guardians in its suit challeng...

Stephen K. Bannon, who was pardoned by President Donald Trump for defrauding investors in a border wall fundraising scheme, is...

The historic pattern has been for the manufacturers to work together to derail the development of environmental regulations an...

The court recently determined that “paramour preference” — an employer favoring a supervisor’s sexual or romantic partner over...

On December 1, after much delay, trial will begin in a lawsuit challenging the validity of Senate Bill 826, California’s law m...

The cycle of regulatory ping-pong every four or eight years is not new, but it seems especially pronounced (and absurd) today ...

I initially had no interest in accepting the Daily Journal’s request to its subscribers to submit articles either in support o...

The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System’s pursuit of and support for new legal service models in variou...

For this new law to be successful, officers will require new training regarding appropriate techniques of arrest control that ...

In the past year, the California Legislature passed multiple bills in the area of labor and employment. This article provides ...

On Oct. 4, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 390 into law, which amends California’s existing law on automatic subscripti...

When Assembly Bill 5 — the so-called “gig worker law” — was enacted at the end of 2019, it appeared that California lawmakers ...

The tax treatment of lawsuit settlements can depend on the wording of the settlement agreement. For example, Debra Jean Blum r...

The State Bar’s paraprofessional program is unlikely to minimize the justice gap and will result in individuals with insuffici...

If the pandemic has had any kind of benefit, it’s that it has raised awareness of the functions and dysfunctions of our courts...

While the iconic comic strip character Dick Tracy took great pleasure in informing the villains he nabbed that “crime doesn’t ...

In a deeply divided Washington, one thing politicians agree on is that cyber crime is a dark and deepening problem. A new repo...

Attorneys, jurists, and others throughout the legal profession need to make sure they are cognizant of what is happening withi...

Footnote 7 of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Facebook v. Duguid undermines the “human intervention” standard that was the forme...

I would like to thank Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of UC Berkeley School of law for his Oct. 12 column, “There is no such thing as v...

A review of Justice Stephen Breyer’s “The Authority of the Courts and the Peril of Politics.”

Given that one out of two marriages ends in divorce (and the absence of any evidence that premarital agreements make divorce l...

The Oct. 19 column by James A. Gorton and William L. Winslow, “Evidence to support use of paraprofessionals is missing,” conta...

On Oct. 5, the court struck down Assembly Bill 32, California’s ban on private prisons and detention facilities.

The following the first installment of a story in four parts, the next three to run Nov. 1, Nov. 15 and Dec. 6. It is adapted ...