Government, Constitutional Law
Taking Care of Our Wounded Warriors
By Michael Waterstone
Congress and various presidents have only paid lip service to protecting our veterans.
Family
Good Concept, Bad Outcome: New Law Allows Children to Testify About Custody Preferences
By Mitchell A. Jacobs , Navid Moshtael
Questioning children on which parent they want to live with will do more harm than good.
U.S. Supreme Court unanimously allows government to arrest persons on pretext of being a material witness. By Erwin Chemerinsk...
Civil Litigation, Law Practice
Professional Tools for Litigators: Closing Arguments
By James P. Gray
Practice tips on how to plan and deliver your closing argument. ...
Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Discipline
I got a State Bar letter
By Diane L. Karpman
Your integrity and moral character have been attacked, how do you set the record straight? ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
The Facts, They Aren’t a-’Changing: What Songwriters Understand About Mediation
By Robert S. Mann
How to convince parties to a lawsuit that their version of the facts and law is not the only possible version.
Who Can Enforce a Contract?
By Daniel Lee Jacobson
In the practice of contract litigation, stark and simple facts rarely present themselves. By Dan Jacobson of Pacific West Coll...
How we spread the illusion of equality in the way we address one another. ...
Civil Litigation
E-Discovery: Why Not Mediate the Process to Satisfy the 'Meet and Confer’ Requirement?
By A. Marco Turk
When it comes to electronically stored information, it is never too early to develop a discovery plan with your client. ...
Labor/Employment, Alternative Dispute Resolution
Litigating Peer Harassment Claims Against Educational Institutions
By Michael H. Leb
A recent investigation into Yale University's policy for sexual harassment and sexual assault claims highlights a split of aut...
A city's rent control ordinance produces just the result it was meant to prevent - rent gouging of low-income tenants. ...
Unburden yourself of grievances with this startlingly simple antidote. ...
A review of statutes and appellate cases governing child witnesses.
Professor Ira L. Shafiroff of Southwestern Law School responds to "Restorative Justice: When Victims Forgive." ...
Supergraphics: The Los Angeles Billboard Wars
By Michael F. Wright
An old case could provide new assistance to the ongoing litigation over supergraphics. ...
Immigration
When Immigration Authorities Come Knocking
By Craig C. Allison, George L. O'Connell
What businesses should know when under investigation by the government for illegal hiring practices.
Civil Litigation
e-Discovery: Better Watch Out, Santa Claus Could Be Coming to Town...for Your Opponent
By A. Marco Turk
Battling out e-discovery disputes in the courtroom can end up doing more harm than good. ...
Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
State Supreme Court Needs to Calendar Meal Break Case Now
By Eric B. Kingsley
One appellate court sidesteps the state Supreme Court and calls the shots in dispute over the meal break standard.
Not even the government, when it invokes national security, is above the law. By Erwin Chemerinsky of UCI School of Law ...
California Supreme Court, Alternative Dispute Resolution, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Class Arbitration Case Questions Jurisdictional Scope of US Supreme Court
By Lawrence Waddington
The current term of the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the 9th Circuit for the 15th time.
Are the Dodgers' financial problems a case of delayed retribution for how Dodger Stadium came about? ...
How to manage electronically stored information without getting involved in a time consuming and costly discovery war. ...
Bridge Loans and the Future of Financing Startups
By Thomas M. Klein
The latest case out of Delaware tackling the issue of bridge loans threatens to shrink financing for startup companies. By Tho...
Labor/Employment, Government, Administrative/Regulatory
Congress Needs to Amend the Federal Arbitration Act
By Eric B. Kingsley
The U.S. Supreme Court's approval of class arbitration waivers will likely lead to abusive labor practices. ...
Civil Litigation, Law Practice
Professional Tools for Litigators: Direct and Cross-Examination
By James P. Gray
When it comes to direct and cross-examination, the better you prepare, the luckier you usually are. By James P. Gray, a retire...
Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports
Sink or Swim: Can Grooveshark Maneuver the Ocean of Copyright Laws?
By Nickolas B. Solish
Recognized as one of the top music Web sites, will Grooveshark's bite be backed by copyright law? ...
Have we reached the point where judges are unable to resolve their own disputes within the judiciary? ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Should Mediation Confidentiality Extend to Lawyer-Client Communications?
By A. Marco Turk
Recent decisions affecting mediation confidentiality are contrary to the goal of alternative dispute resolution.
Before becoming a well-known vintner, Jess S. Jackson was a land-use lawyer for some of the most interesting taking cases.
The combative nature of practicing law can taint an attorney's emotional state and ultimately, affect work performance.