Marco Turk of California State University Dominguez Hills says creative lawyering skills are needed to resolve disputes in med...

Robert Bastian Jr. of Law Offices of Bastian & Dini says California shamefully shields perpetrators of poorly executed pol...

Mitchell Kamin and David Lash sound the trumpet, seeking passage of the Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Pilot Program, A.B. 590...

Stephen Rohde of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation says reform is needed to correct abuses. ...

Timothy Tosta of Luce Forward uses the Enneagram system's personality typologies to improve work relations. ...

Richard Frank of UC Berkeley School of Law says the Supreme Court's handling of environmental cases may mirror the past. ...

A lawyer may get more money with value-added billing, but he or she will also become less of a professional, writes William Do...

William F. Sullivan, Thomas A. Zaccaro, Morgan J. Miller and Neil J. Schumacher speculate on how the new head of the SEC's enf...

Contrary to what some might think, not every mediation falls into a specific method to be applied. Each situation is different.

Benjamin G. Shatz discusses best practices for a great cover up - appellate brief covers, that is. ...

Today, it seems as if every week a new decision emerges regarding class actions.

A recent case in which EPA officials were forced to give depositions is a reminder that no public official is above accountabi...

President Obama's announcement that the United States will sign the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities...

The failure to prosecute those suspected of violating the law through torture will embolden other parties to the Convention Ag...

Is a clerical error like a misspelled name enough to warrant extending the time to file a notice of appeal, ask Benjamin G. Sh...

Both sides in insurance bad faith litigation need to continue monitoring developments to the genuine dispute doctrine. ...

Contrary to claims that the Roberts court is a minimalist one, many of the criminal cases tackled this term showed unnecessary...

What if, instead of lawyers as vultures, we thought of lawyers as Aikidoists, asks Timothy Tosta. ...

Using self-determination in mediations, parties design their own outcome and its enforceability. ...

The death of the world's oldest woman to give birth prompts more uncertainty about the math surrounding infertility treatment,...

Since the beginning of the year, five appellate decisions have addressed employer policies on tip redistribution. ...

If lawyers can write bestselling novels and win reality television shows, surely they can file a notice of appeal on time.

Judges' work is not pretty and usually involves ferreting out meaning from perplexing statutes. ...

After years of relative judicial inactivity, the implied covenant has recently resurfaced. ...

A new report details unprecedented surveillance by Bush officials far beyond warrantless wiretapping, writes Stephen F. Rohde.

The Supreme Court is a small group and decisions are often a result of interpersonal relations and individual persuasiveness, ...

Judicial confirmations fail to tell us what we really need to know, writes William Domnarski.

Meditation can help put the stresses of litigation into perspective.

A lawyer reminisces about his experience in the 1960s opening up an office for California Rural Legal Assistance, where he fou...

As the state Supreme Court celebrates its 160th birthday, Benjamin G. Shatz outlines the myriad ways a case can wind up before...