These cases are significant losses for indigent defendants who do not have the resources to hire lawyers and instead must rely...
With unflagging courage and relentless determination, David Mellinkoff led us into battle against unclear thinking and sloppy ...
Presidential candidates clamoring for California's gold mine of convention delegates should be asked to address very specific ...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Administrative/Regulatory
Takings Trauma
By Stuart M. Miller
California Supreme Court takings case deviates from U.S. Supreme Court precedent. ...
Overruling Miranda would mean an unpredictable inquiry in each case as to whether a confession was voluntary under the totalit...
Just a little over a week ago, a record was broken. I mentioned it to an elderly uncle of mine who was a musician. I should ha...
The extensive influence of American courts in reshaping the cultural, political, social and religious customs of the American ...
^^Constitutional Law^^ Abrupt Turnaround The 1930s Radically Changed Constitutional Law In the 1930s, the shifts in constituti...
In the Public Interest
By David A. Lash
FORUM Children, families and seniors who live on the streets face a life that most of us cannot comprehend, and we have the ab...
Speech Expansion California courts interpreted the anti-SLAPP law expansively this year, broadening the statute's protection ...
Law Practice
Breaking Barriers to Access -- ABA Is Leading the Way to More Pro Bono by Encouraging Private Support
By David A. Lash
By David A. Lash In a direct effort to encourage major law firms to increase their pro bono participation, the American Bar A...
California Courts of Appeal, Appellate Practice
So Long, Goodbye
By Stephen L. Raucher
One would think that a lawyer who abandons his client in a pending case and fails to withdraw properly as counsel of record wo...
"I keep six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew; Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who."
"In The Public Interest" By David A. Lash The "well regulated militia" of the Second Amendment obviously has nothing to do wit...
By Mitchell Keiter Gov. Gray Davis is currently deciding whether to extend "marital" (insurance, pension) benefits to unmarri...
By Jerome M. Garchik When San Francisco visitors and shoppers tour the newly opened Sony Metreon "entertainment mall," they w...
Speed Mediation Many Couples Are Interested in a Product, Not a Process For an investment of 50 percent of the time, energy a...
International Law, Intellectual Property
Long Arm
By Craig I Celniker, Charles S. Evendorff
Long Arm Suing for Foreign Infringement of U.S. Trademarks in U.S. Courts Beginning with 'Bulova,' U.S. courts have interprete...
^^In the Public Interest^^ By David A Lash The California Access to Justice Commission has estimated that the legal needs of ...
^^Constitutional Law^^ Immunization Booster Supreme Court Strikes a Blow for States' Rights Constitutional historians will re...
Please do not call me active. It is true I get up early in the morning. To be more accurate, I crawl out of bed and stumble on...
^^In the Public Interest^^ By David A. Lash A generation of 20-somethings has been the target of some negative media portrayal...
By Rex Heeseman The plaintiffs' bar has eagerly embraced the Unfair Competition Act, Business and Professions Code Section 172...