Recent cases have tested the scope of the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in a variety of conte...

Can you imagine what it's like for the beleaguered general counsel of Tesla when Musk asks about including a "ludicrous" mode?

Pursuing an appeal in a civil case is risky and expensive — so be sure you know it's worth rolling the dice.

A lawsuit in Orange County recently presented an interesting anti-SLAPP statute conundrum: Who should decide in the first inst...

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an initiative to pursue individuals who perpetrate corporate wrongdoing. ...

Justice Scalia adheres to "originalism," a method of interpretation that looks to the commonly understood meaning of the Const...

The D.C. Circuit was wrong in a recent decision upholding a ban on speech activities in the plaza in front of the Supreme Court.

As Americans become more health conscious, they have demanded more transparency regarding ingredients. But Gene Williams says ...

The mediation process often requires each party's original "story" to be extensively rewritten. ...

Earlier this month, the IRS decided not to provide Yahoo with an opinion letter on the proper tax treatment of Yahoo's spinoff...

Prostitutes have human rights. In recognition of those rights, Amnesty International has called on all nations to decriminaliz...

California's own state court have secretly narrowed privacy guarrantees under the California Constitution. ...

A Court of Appeal recently wrote an important opinion in family law regarding a community's interest in a separater property b...

Yesterday, Labor Day, was my 40th anniversary. Labor Day 1975. Four decades ago. That is when it happened. Could have been fou...

Good morning, my name is Jim Gray and I am your mediator to try to help you resolve your dispute. I'd like to share some thoug...

The state Supreme Court recently provided a useful analytic framework to determine whether non-legal malpractice cases brought...

A recent human interest story featured Dylan Lauren, daughter of Ralph Lauren, who spoke of her decision to hire another woman...

A Court of Appeal recently held that an agreement to arbitrate that an employee was required to sign on her first day of work ...

Recently, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released a package of proposed procedural revisions affecting post-grant procee...

California employees increasingly are turning to the Private Attorneys General Act for mass wage and hour actions, but should ...

As summer yields to autumn, and a U.S. Supreme Court 2015-2016 emerges in October, lawyers and judges can expect another round...

Learn the basics of a court's duty to instruct a jury in a criminal case in this month's MCLE column. ...

The California Law Revision Commission wants to amend state law to pierce the veil of mediation confidentiality in cases where...

In a recent case, the state high court fell in line with most of the rest of the country when it comes to the enforceability o...

The sooner the courts can help themselves to a clearer "self-help" doctrine under Brady, the better off prosecutors and...

Is there a way for a judge to "look up" the ordinary meaning of a word in a statute other than by using a dictionary? The acad...

Does California, for all its pride in our supposedly progressive legal history, have much to boast about? By Dan Lawton ...

Last week, the state high court issued a long-awaited decision involving independent counsel in insurance litigation - and com...

Judge Lucy Koh recently issued a ruling finding the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant prior to collecting cell data. A week ...

This last term, the U.S. Supreme Court decisively rejected Justice Antonin Scalia's restrictive approach to interpreting the C...