U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Rights
Disparate impact discrimination liability built on 'foundation of sand' is crumbling
By Caitlin Moyna
The Civil Rights Act never created disparate impact liability, yet agencies embedded it across American life. President Trump ...
Real Estate/Development
California's 40-year-old habitability law is failing tenants
By Iris Maguire
Many view California as a leader in tenant protections, but its primary unsafe-housing statute remains frozen in 1985, trappin...
Intellectual Property
The NO FAKES Act is urgent, carefully crafted and constitutionally sound
By Jeffrey P. Bennett
The NO FAKES Act would close a critical gap by prohibiting the nonconsensual use of digital replicas of an individual's voice ...
Letters
The government's treatment of immigrants reflects a familiar injustice
By Jim Hoffmann
It seems we have a habit of breaking our bonds with our fellow man, and to what end? We call ourselves a Christian nation but ...
Labor/Employment, Class Action
Rescinding a release: Is payback necessary?
By Barry M. Appell
A new Court of Appeal decision confronts a first-impression question: What obligations remain when a class-action release is r...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Negotiation tactics from a toddler: Simple but effective techniques to help advance the conversation toward resolution
By Christianna Kyriacou Mantas
Think negotiation has to be complicated? A 3-year-old proves that clear goals, smart framing and persistence can win the day.
Litigation & Arbitration, International Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution
California International Arbitration Week: Global disputes are a local reality
By Laura Abrahamson, Jeffery Daar
The question is not whether you will encounter international arbitration in California; it is whether you will be ready when y...
Family
Why California should stop invalidating Mahr under 'promotion of divorce' doctrine
By Abbas Hadjian
California treats divorce neutrally, regulating its consequences rather than judging the decision, so courts should stop inval...
Law Practice
Feedback as fuel: Leveraging client surveys for growth and retention
By George Brandon
In today's competitive legal market, law firms that institutionalize structured, recurring client feedback as a strategic tool...
Technology, Intellectual Property
Litigation against AI platforms: Where it's been and where it's headed
By Zachary N. Zaharoff
While federal copyright disputes have drawn the most attention, they are only the beginning; practitioners should anticipate a...
Torts/Personal Injury
The injury gap between military service and civilian justice
By Yosi Yahoudai, David S. Allard
Military toughness helps in uniform but hurts in court, leaving veterans underrepresented and penalized in personal injury cla...
Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
From tariffs to trust: Why lawyers must oppose efforts to normalize attacks on the judiciary
By Brian S. Kabateck, Shant A. Karnikian
Disagreement with court decisions is healthy in a constitutional democracy, but attacks on judges' loyalty or integrity erode ...
LA Fires, Constitutional Law
Ongoing fire litigation highlights who pays when government fails
By Michael M. Berger
Malibu, hit hard by the Palisades Fire, is suing state and local agencies for property damage, citing public nuisance and inve...
Space Law/Aviation/Aerospace, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
The final frontier of drug development: Biotechnology and pharmaceutical innovation in low earth orbit
By John E. Wehrli
Scientists and companies are using the microgravity of low Earth orbit to develop drugs in ways impossible on Earth, creating ...
Space Law/Aviation/Aerospace, Intellectual Property
Protecting the final frontier: Patent strategy in the 2026 US space race
By Melissa E. Patterson
As private and government activity in orbit expands, clarity in patent strategy is increasingly necessary, and recent U.S. pol...
Space Law/Aviation/Aerospace, Administrative/Regulatory
Sleepless in orbit: What's keeping Space GCs up at night
By Randy S. Segal
With regulation lagging innovation, geopolitics in flux, scarce resources, nonstop fundraising, and mission-critical stakes, s...
Space Law/Aviation/Aerospace, International Law
U.S. space export controls: Topics to watch in 2026
By Melissa B. Mannino, James K. Perry
America's commercial space surge is meeting a fast-shifting export-control regime, as new rules from the Bureau of Industry an...
Space Law/Aviation/Aerospace
Space race 2.0 - It's about the law
By Michelle L.D. Hanlon
If the 1969 space race was about who could get there first, Space Race 2.0 is about who gets to define what "there" means.
California Supreme Court weighs whether an unreadable arbitration agreement can bind workers
By Holly Williamson, Andrea Oguntula
In a 6-1 decision, the California Supreme Court considered whether an arbitration agreement that was nearly impossible to read...
Constitutional Law
Wolff v. Trump and the preemptive anti-SLAPP gambit: A tale of two statutes
By Krista L. Baughman
When a demand letter becomes a "claim": examining a novel offensive use of New York's anti-SLAPP law--and why the same strateg...
Military Law
LA supervisors lead justice reform for struggling veterans
By William M. Paparian
In Los Angeles County, too many veterans who fought for us came home broken--only to be met with jail cells instead of healing...
U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
After Supreme Court tariff ruling Trump signals further executive action
By Selwyn D. Whitehead
The fat lady has not sung: At a Feb. 20 press conference responding to the Court's ruling, President Trump--after launching a ...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Ideologically diverse coalition of justices joins textualist decision setting aside tariffs
By Mark Chenoweth
The Supreme Court's Learning Resources tariffs ruling proved Justice Kagan right -- a bipartisan majority used a strict textua...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Tariffs, text and the Constitution: The Supreme Court tells Trump to call Congress
By Allan Lee Dollison
In a rare 6-3 rebuke of the Trump administration, the Supreme Court--relying on the International Emergency Economic Powers Ac...
Administrative/Regulatory
Advanced Air Mobility nears launch but legal readiness is unsettled - Part 1
By Robert Ehling
Advanced Air Mobility is racing toward initial operations, buoyed by capital and political will. From a lawyer's perspective, ...
California mobilehome regulations every tenant and public agency should know
By Layla A. Sarwari
California's new mobilehome laws strengthen tenant protections, modernize notices and impose stricter disaster-response obliga...
Mentoring in a changing legal market: Intentional knowledge transfer matters
By Mark Wraight
To thrive in today's hybrid, mobile legal world, firms must teach intentionally: pass down skills and institutional knowledge,...
Immigration
What Billie Eilish really meant - and what Richard Epstein missed
By Victor S. Dorokhin
Billie Eilish's Grammy remark wasn't about land titles. It was about moral standing in the face of a deeply unjust immigrati...
Intellectual Property, Alternative Dispute Resolution
Why generative AI litigation in Hollywood is ripe for mediated settlement
By David R. Shraga
The entertainment industry is at the forefront of innovative claims arising from the intersection of media and generative AI t...
Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure
Civil liability of ICE and border patrol agents for excessive force
By Douglas S. Gilliland
Bivens actions, once a key tool for victims of federal excessive force, are now largely foreclosed in immigration and...