A Coinbase customer filed a motion in federal court seeking to intervene in the federal case and to block the IRS from enforci...

The first of Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics states that "a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, all...

T ime is generally what we sell, which has led some to ask whether increasing the "cost effectiveness" of lawyers helps them o...

In my experience, witnesses seldom yell "You can't handle the truth!" immediately before making a case-dispositive admission. ...

The more significant developments relate to challenges over who may pursue class action relief, either because of waiver provi...

Learn about the source of the right to privacy, the test for determining when discovery may be curtailed due to the right, and...

Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Pasadena) ...

Lawyers who use LinkedIn should opt out of the endorsements features, as baseless ones are dishonest and intentionally mislead...

Before 2016, California law prohibited gender, race and ethnicity-based discrimination, but the 2015 and 2016 amendments signi...

Social media apps have recently become a favorite target of the plaintiffs' bar for claims under the Telephone Consumer Protec...

"Breaking bad" means "raising hell," at least according to Vince Gilligan. In that case, lawyers in California are breaking ba...

Increasingly in law firm life, the decision on whether you will depart the firm is made for you, and it merits preparation bec...

Hiring errors are not unique to law firms, but can be costly, sometimes more so than missed court deadlines or unforeseen conf...

The in-house lawyer, it seems, has but one client to worry about. But the reality is that in-house counsel have their own part...

Everyone seems to believe that federal income tax rates will go down in the new year (no, California tax rates will not!). By ...

Many workers who participate in the gig economy do not meet the legal definition of "employee" because of their contingent sta...

7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner recently excoriated the high court chief's management skills in a video interview that went v...

To be sure, the 12th Amendment's text does not require electors to be faithful. But the assumption of its drafters and ratifie...

Lawyers looking to research the social media habits of prospective or empaneled jurors should take to heart the childhood adag...

A recent guest column suggested that President-elect Donald Trump is going to take our First Amendment freedoms from us. That ...

It remains difficult to tell what aspects of Trump's agenda are driving investors and business leaders. By Jeff Steiner and Se...

Despite all we do to support our students, like any law school, some of our graduates will not pass the bar on the first try. ...

One might expect bar passage improvements in light of the fact that many law schools are expanding the academic support and se...

The issue of whether there are too many lawyers is a fair one to ask, but it is not the California Bar's job to control that s...

It just cannot be that a single exam is the answer when it adds astronomically to the costs of legal education and erects a ba...

An even more important question than why the results were so low this year is whether the bar exam is even measuring the skill...

It is time for California to end the carnage and waste by adopting the Uniform Bar Exam and setting a pass score that is not p...

In fact, on the multi-state portion of the exam, California test takers - even including the roughly 7 percent of exam-takers ...

The national political process may be dramatically changed by a recent decision of a three-judge federal court in Wisconsin th...

The 3rd District Court of Appeal recently issued a writ of mandate ordering a stay of pending litigation until plaintiffs sati...