Lawyers in the act of practicing law can be envisioned as playing a type of game, ostensibly a variant of chess. It makes sens...

It's no secret that the growing use of Microsoft Teams, WebEx, Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms to conduct arbitrati...

City Attorney Dennis Herrera's lawsuit against the San Francisco Unified School District is a first-of-its-kind case, and indi...

The creation of dictionaries has its own strange body of lore, far more exciting than one would think.

The California Judges Association has established an Award that will be given every three years to an exceptional judicial out...

The “notice-prejudice rule,” often applied in the context of occurrence-type policies, requires an insurer to prove that the i...

The California Legislature extended the state’s existing eviction moratorium and approved new rental assistance legislation on...

An uncredited quote says “no cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet.” An...

Now I am not ready to jump on the Recall George Gascón bandwagon. I may be in the minority but I still want him to succeed. It...

In TransUnion, LLC v. Ramirez, the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to address an issue of critical importance to class action pra...

America is fracturing as this past presidential election and the Jan. 6 melee at the capitol demonstrated. But we are not divi...

Rule 5.5 prohibits a lawyer from establishing “an office or other systematic and continuous presence … for the practice of law...

As our world becomes increasingly technologically driven, the risk of cybercrimes rises exponentially.

When the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 was amended in late 2018, one of the amendments opened the door to using electroni...

After receiving the California Supreme Court’s answers to its certified questions, the 9th Circuit held last week that airline...

Pre-employment drug testing is a common practice by California employers, and one that has not been the subject of significant...

During former President Donald Trump’s tenure, two outstanding military officers were vilified and punished for doing their jo...

Ever since the first announcement of COVID-19, a proverbial legal whirlwind swept through all aspects of life, upending everyt...

The email comes as a surprise — and it’s very flattering. You’ve been selected as one of the top 40 under 40 *Trial Attorneys ...

In part 1 of this 2-part series we discussed the minimum legal requirements of prenuptial agreements and the involuntary execu...

President Donald Trump continues to repeat the “big lie” that the election was a fraud and stolen from him. On Jan. 6, Trump p...

The 9th Circuit recently held that a nutritional guide could constitute commercial speech subject to the Lanham Act where the ...

There is an ongoing national awakening of the need to examine our institutions and practices for race inequity that is not rea...

Next in the Negotiating Trauma & the Law Series, Professor Ty Alper speaks about representing clients on death row; being ...

The number of people seeking premarital agreements, also known as prenuptial agreements or “prenups,” has quintupled in the la...

As positive as recent turnout numbers are, they shroud this persistent fact: U.S. voting pales in comparison with advanced dem...

Like many professions, COVID-19 has dealt a body blow to the legal industry, which has caused many attorneys to worry about jo...

Much discussion is taking place about whether lawyers ought to be coders, meaning that they would learn about and know how to ...

Money usually triggers taxes, and that is true for lawyers too. When the client pays you, you have income.

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