By Benjamin G. Shatz A notice of appeal is one of the simplest documents a lawyer can prepare. Usually the only serious att...

Practical tips for preparing for the worst--losing an important motion--and getting relief through a writ petition. by Benjam...

A notice of appeal is one of the simplest documents a lawyer can prepare. ...

-Anyone with even a passing interest in punitive damages is aware of the U.S. Supreme Court's blockbuster decision in State Fa...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The Supreme Court's decision in Garcetti v. Ceballos, 126 S.Ct. 1951 (May 30, 2006), den...

In January this year, the California Court of Appeal issued a decision that creates the potential for extended malpractice lia...

Criminals should be punished, and unborn life is precious. Both propositions are central tenets of conservative politics. But ...

Forum Column - By Magdalena Reyes Bordeaux - The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention Consumer Protection Act was signed into law by Pr...

Focus Column - By Benjamin G. Shatz - A common defense tactic in litigation is to inject procedural complication to delay reac...

Sometimes hard cases produce brilliant opinions. This certainly was true in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' recent deci...

I read with interest the article written by Jeffrey Lowe, "Single-Payer Bill Must Be Passed to Provide Health Care for All" (A...

Just before the opening statements in the government's case against former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, I empan...

R. Clarke Schultes was one of those influential teacher-coaches who leave their mark in a way so blunt, yet so subtly, that fu...

Ask lawyers and their clients this question: Judges know the law - true or false? Their answer depends upon whether they won o...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Anatole France remarked that the "[t]he law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich ...

According to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell , 538 U.S. 408 (2003), an award of punitive damages "more ...

Focus Column - By Christopher K. Pelham and Ronald C. Cohen - The Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution protects parties...

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Historically, American rates were essentially stable until ...

Forum Column - By Judith Daar - Civil disobedience is on the march, and its charging foot soldier is none other than the Catho...

Then a company is targeted with a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, one of its first and most important decisi...

There should be a rule. Every time a dissenting opinion predicts, Cassandra-like, that a majority's holding will "open the flo...

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In his op-ed piece, "To Care for Society, Gangs Need a Say in Its Politics" (March 2 Daily Journal), R. Konrad Moore states th...

In Wilson v. 21st Century Ins. Co. , 2006 DJDAR 1290 (Jan. 30), the 2nd District Court of Appeal reversed the trial court's gr...

The present response to combating gangs and gang violence is ineffectual. Hiring more police officers and stiffening criminal ...

Forum Column - By Charles Patterson and Stephen Rohde - Roger Keith Coleman was convicted in 1982 of the rape and murder of hi...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - One of the most dramatic changes in constitutional law during the Rehnquist court was th...

You know the story about the patient relating a terrible nightmare he had the previous night. "Doctor, it was horrendous. I dr...

Forum column - By Elena E. Smith - Apparently, some people would like to live in Rod Stewart's world - a place where, if you t...

Asking "fact or fiction?" is not the same as asking whether a memoir - or, for that matter a legal argument or a justification...