Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., famously declared that the life of law has not been logic but experience. Yet logic improves advoc...

Enterprising plaintiffs’ lawyers are increasingly trying to fill the gap by relying upon evidence of purported “implicit bias”...

9th Circuit Judges Diarmuid O'Scannlain and Carlos Bea have called on the en banc court to reconsider precedent approving of b...

Last March, the California Supreme Court vacated the conviction and sentence of a death row inmate. This rarely happens.

The PTO's recent rule change specifies that the Phillips standard will apply to both America Invents Act proceedings involving...

I've reviewed the DOJ's memo from 2000, titled "A Sitting President's Amenability to Indictment and Criminal Prosecution." It ...

You don’t need to include every little detail, but you want to be able to point to the basic provisions and show that indeed, ...

Richard Wirick reviews Ramachandra Guna’s latest book, “Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World.”

It is all but certain that the USDA and FDA will play a role in regulating various aspects of slaughter-free meat, but the det...

When it comes to the movement to reform abusive guardianship and conservatorship systems, there is an advocacy void when it co...

Internal Revenue Service Forms 1099 usually arrive in January, and serve to kick off the tax season. If you receive them, they...

With its recent opinion, the Court of Appeal fully implemented the policy considerations behind the duty colleges and univers...

It’s time to rethink and redraft executive contracts. Management should not have to wait for a legal verdict in order to do th...

If even Antonin Scalia was willing to abandon the so-called Auer v. Robbins doctrine, it must be on very thin ice indeed.

Absent Supreme Court clarification, uncertainty exists on the proper scope of executive privilege in response to congressional...

Experienced attorneys who know and understand the rules can meet up with a mediator or another attorney they’ve never seen bef...

The Supreme Court tackles whether there are any exceptions to Rule 23(f)’s 14-day deadline to file a petition for permission t...

Predictions abound regarding whether Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom and Democrat supermajorities in both legislative chambers will me...

So now that we have a nominee to fill Justice Kathryn Werdegar’s seat — the governor’s fourth­ appointment to the court — it s...

Diane Cafferata is back with more tips on ensuring you have strong motion practice.

In non-bankruptcy civil cases, Congress has not told Article III federal judges what to do. In bankruptcy cases, Congress cert...

As the U.S. Supreme Court formally convened on the proverbial first Monday in October, and the justices settled in to hear ora...

When is a bank liable for accepting funds in a wire fraud scheme?

With all the devastation wrought on homeowners in recent weeks by the California wildfires, there has been much attention paid...

Several new harassment laws signed by Gov. Jerry Brown this October may not go into effect until Jan. 1, 2019 or later, but th...

In the courtroom lawyers are advocates who rarely are both sides of an issue. Mediators are different — we have to be able to ...

Tax opinions were always important. And with the massive tax bill that was passed almost a year ago, the situations in which t...

Many civilian lawyers in California join the California State Military Reserve to serve and support the people of California.

Tips on how to ask your clients to pay their bills.