Once considered a symptom of urban blight, graffiti is now a respected art form. As the popularity of street art has increased...

In 2009, I wrote a column based on a letter from the State Bar stating that they do not consider mediation as the practice law...

In previous generations, attorneys stayed at one law firm for their duration of their career, but as firms grow and expand, at...

In broad terms, the RLUIPA prohibits religious discrimination or imposition of "substantial burdens" on religious exercise and...

Street art, to quote "Zoolander," is "so hot right now," with artists like Banksy, Basquait and Fairey fetching millions. By P...

In Hurst v. Florida, the court held that Florida's death penalty scheme, which it has repeatedly upheld since 1976, was...

James Madison provided the framework to fix the financing of campaigns over 250 years ago. By Nicholas Warshaw ...

Last week, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article about homeowners' resentment of San Francisco's "relinquishment pr...

You just agreed in principle to settle a big case for your client. Whether you represent the plaintiff or defendant, your clie...

I feel like "a patient etherized upon on a table." Sorry, but lately T.S. Eliot has been on my mind. ...

With growing bipartisan support, Congress is inching towards the passage of legislation that would provide litigants a federal...

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Conflicts of interest continue to be the most common alleged legal malpractice error, as well as a basis for disciplinary acti...

As famed NBA Lamar Odom rebounds from a life-threatening overdose of "herbal Viagra," his ordeal raises important legal issues...

In a decision late last year that went largely under the radar, Judge D. Michael Chappel, the chief administrative law judge f...

The high court'sMontgomery v. Louisiana decision is the latest development in two trends in criminal justice. ...

Over the last year, California appellate courts have issued several decisions dealing with the anti-SLAPP statute. By Steven G...

The Northern District recently applied the California Court of Appeals' ruling that, employers are obligated to reimburse thei...

Buyers often develop remorse after they move into their home and discover one or more problems that the prior owner failed to ...

Until last week, most California courts have held parties in a strict product liability action can never use a competitor's pr...

No one likes receiving Internal Revenue Service Forms 1099, those pesky little tax forms you receive this time of year to repo...

Few provisions of the U.S. Constitution are as controversial as the Second Amendment. While the NRA argues that the Second Ame...

As consumers suffer from escalating premiums and reduced services from their health insurers, they face a simple truth — a lac...

To be sure, the Sunshine Act has important business and legal ramifications, and there are several ways that consumers, the pr...

While it is common for paralegals to oversee case management once a matter is assigned, rarely does a paralegal case manager p...

In October 2015, the European Court of Justice issued a ruling that invalidated the safe harbor program for the transfer of pe...

The reallocation of higher education risk — the danger that a student's debt might exceed her ability to repay — is the result...

The article aims to provide bench officers and lawyers with a pragmatic and structural approach for analyzing issues surroundi...

Santa Clara County is the most populated county in the Bay Area, while Santa Clara has an estimated population of only 272,000...

In 2004, when I initially traveled to Cuba with the Beverly Hills Bar Association, the U.S. embargo against Cuba was still bei...