Judges and lawyers alike must do their parts to cultivate and ensure the public's respect for our great system of justice. ...

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the administrative agency at the USPTO that handles trademark disputes, recently announc...

Courts should follow Florida's lead and look to the concurrent cause doctrine to resolve causation dilemmas. By Daniel A. John...

Recent legal news headlines suggest that most lateral partners do not meet revenue expectations at their new firms in their fi...

To comply with federal, state and local employment laws, a law firm must first understand who its employees are. That's not al...

In three consolidated class action waiver cases, the Supreme Court hosts an epic battle between the Federal Arbitration Act an...

Property owners who take proactive measures to prevent and reduce the likelihood of injuries on their property are in the best...

The U.S. will sell no synthetic wine before its time — in this case, before complying with a panoply of regulatory hurdles. By...

If we want to know how history will judge the Dylann Roof death penalty trial in 150 years, look no further than the 2016 Man ...

A recent decision may permit plaintiffs to defeat these motions by using vague, generically pleaded complaints. ...

Four prominent cases, one expected within about the next 12 months, may contain critical guidance to public and private instit...

When police are in pursuit of a suspect matching a particular description shortly after a crime has been reported, any citizen...

Although bank customers possess statutory and constitutional privacy rights in their bank records, at least one district court...

An attorney serving as Cumis counsel can limit the risks of a claim by the insurer by complying with statutory obliga...

If approved, new fee-sharing agreement rules will better protect clients by requiring that informed written consents be obtain...

Allows teachers, firefighters and service workers the opportunity to live where they work and reduce their commute times. By K...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Judge Robert Bork's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. Today's broken judicial conf...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the "disparagement provision" of the Lanh...

Last week, an appellate court said California's new law prohibiting the use of grand juries in police use of force cases is un...

Suggested resolutions for the busy patent lawyer. By Karineh Khachatourian ...

Patent litigators need to make their complicated and difficult-to-pronounce subject matter fascinating and important in order ...

Several recent events signal possible changes to the way the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States analyzes nat...

Federal agencies hear more cases each year than our federal courts. But agencies routinely avoid using tools that courts rely ...

Maybe we can learn from our forefathers, whose appellate judges only accept briefs outlining facts but no legal argument and t...

Heightened judicial scrutiny of content- or speaker-based commercial speech restrictions would help ensure that such restricti...

Something is wrong with a state budget that favors cannabis regulation over cybersecurity, and an California's law enforcement...

Last week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Jeff Sessions powerfully demonstrated why he should not be confirmed for at...

Early neutral evaluation is particularly suited for large attorney fee cases before discovery commences, and sometimes even be...

Trial judges everywhere know that nothing settles a case like a firm trial date — unnecessary continuances be damned. By John ...

The court said that a lack of subject matter jurisdiction over a claim does not preclude a court from granting a special motio...