Expect parties to look to force majeure provisions.

The art of trial work is being able to be flexible given what’s going on in the courtroom.

How your mediator can help you avoid eating liver and onions

I have thoroughly enjoyed this fast moving and entertaining documentary about the game scandal.

This action by the Los Angeles District Attorney should serve a clarion call to others around the state to follow suit.

Judge Kimberly Mueller issued a detailed written ruling earlier this month in which she stressed that the plaintiffs are “like...

It is safe to say that the current presidential administration has not grown any fonder of or kinder to whistleblowers.

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The “conviction-and-incarceration-obsessed district attorney” is a common caricature used among “progressive prosecutors” look...

The intense partisanship surrounding the Trump impeachment, and more generally around the Trump presidency, has obscured the e...

The California Court of Appeal recently examined a novel legal theory made by a Muslim husband who claimed that he was fraudul...

Although there is certainly no express exemption for big data written into the Sherman Act, determining exactly how antitrust ...

When a federal jury convicted celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti of attempted extortion last week, it sent a clear message: T...

Last week, California again parted ways with federal wage and hour standards to increase protections for the Golden State’s em...

The easier, more modern system is what was envisioned after Bush-Gore

More than two centuries of independence at the U.S. Department of Justice were upended last week when political appointees, pr...

Two years after it was widely documented that cellular carriers were selling highly precise customer location data to third pa...

If you are about to sell stock, your cash of bitcoin, your out of state real estate holdings, or settle a career lawsuit, you ...

In a complex commercial case, a trial lawyer has many ingredients to choose from. There are millions of pages of documents, do...

Given the potential costs and the uncertainties of predicting state and federal court juries, it makes sense that many compani...

More and more trial lawyers are making use of the “mini-opening” in their cases. When done properly, the mini-opening can be a...

As you stand before a jury delivering your opening statement, the last thing you should feel is that you can’t win. Every tria...

Water litigation often involves decades of conflict. Judicial and administrative litigation about the American, mainstem San J...

The debate over the Supreme Court of California's 2018 Dynamex decision - in which the state's highest court adopted the so-ca...

Does due process require an ability to pay before imposing criminal fines? Is it fundamentally unfair to impose assessments to...

As a young government lawyer, It didn't take me long to learn that politics can override good policy.

California’s law dictating the number of women who must be hired to the boards of publicly traded California corporations (whe...

I have long been scratching my head over Napa County Superior Court’s contested judicial election, in which Judge Monique Lang...

Roger Stone will have his place in history, but not merely for his role as a gadfly in the president’s once-inner circle. More...

Prosecutors in the Roger Stone case lied to the attorney general about their sentencing recommendation.