From my perch as an appellate lawyer, I review a lot of trial court transcripts. I see quite a few mistakes — by both judges a...

Unfortunately for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, her qualifications are likely to attract less attention than they deserve during th...

On Sept. 23, Gov. Gavin Newsom held a press conference to announce issuance of Executive Order N-79-20 setting several broad g...

American history and American law are joined at the hip and must be viewed concurrently. Legal scholars insist that historical...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the long-overlooked problems of the California bar exam into sharp relief. Put frankly, the ...

COVID-19 has not stopped judicial outreach programs. But it will change them. Judicial outreach will emerge stronger and bette...

As the court gavels-in the new term, let us take a look at the more significant cases that are already on its docket -- and th...

On Sept. 25, the Judicial Council of California approved an amendment to California Rule of Court 10.469 to make education on ...

Defining “medical necessity” in the context of medical and surgical benefits has already been a challenge for health care, and...

As summer turns to fall, movie and TV production is just beginning to gear up in the face of a pandemic that is showing little...

For more than two decades, California courts have recognized that one of the three ways an insurance agent broadens the genera...

Is a party’s loss of use of a leasehold or other interest in real property considered “property damage” within the meaning of ...

Kathrine James has written a book on preparing witnesses, “Harvesting Witnesses’ Stories: How to Get Your Client the Second-Be...

The headline to the Sept. 30 story, “Judge accuses lawyer of ‘gender incivility’,” inaccurately states that the judge in MJJ P...

Until recently, Amazon had a unified, and largely successful, approach to avoiding lawsuits over defective products sold on it...

Press reports suggest that the United States and nearly every state are in the midst of putting the finishing touches on their...

The governor approved a historic expansion of the California Family Right Act earlier this month when he signed into law Senat...

Neither the courts nor federal agencies have addressed whether an employer-mandated COVID-19 vaccination requirement is lawful...

I was dumbfounded by the “Daddy’s Gill” headline in the Daily Journal’s Sept. 28 profile of Kern County Superior Court Judge S...

The bill increased thresholds for “small estates” to avoid formal probate proceedings.

Whether you are a first-time fund, exempt adviser or registered investment adviser, all funds must be mindful of implementing ...

Businesses and investors can get ahead by embracing the changes that are here to stay.

Parties use a judge pro tem to ensure a decision maker is knowledgeable in the law applicable to the dispute as well as having...

Last week, by a unanimous 4-0 vote, the California Fish and Game Commission agreed to accept a petition submitted by the Cente...

Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill to impose notice, record keeping and safety obligations on employers in Ca...

As this column is devoted to takings law, this seemed like an apt moment to examine the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s par...

If the state of California is looking to reckon with the pseudo-symbiotic relationship between the justice system and law enfo...

In his Sept. 25 guest column, Ben Feuer makes the dramatic pronouncement that “[Justice Ruth Bader] Ginsburg’s death could spa...

"General Michael Flynn is a defendant without a prosecutor" With that rhetorical hook, Sidney Powell, counsel for former Natio...

The COVID-19 edition of the 2020 NCAA college football season is unlike any of the previous 150 seasons.