FOCUS COLUMN - By Franklin R. Garfield - Standard provisions, often referred to as boilerplate, are an important component of ...

FORUM COLUMN - By David A. Lash - Belief that a woman has the right to choose to have an abortion on demand, or belief that ab...

FORUM COLUMN - By Mark C. Mazzarella and Wendy Patrick Mazzarella - Storytelling, it dates back to the time when man first for...

'I was nervous and upset." These were the words you coached your client to say before the no-fault divorce law was enacted. ...

Mark Foley's revelation that he was sexually abused as a minor confirms what many have recognized for years: Adult sexual offe...

FORUM COLUMN - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The Navy's choice to force out Lt. Comdr. Charles Swift, one of the lawyers who successf...

Yesterday, I got a flu shot. No one made me get it. I did it on my own. ...

FOCUS COLUMN - By James C. Martin and David J. de Jesus - Once a case reaches the appellate stage, practitioners easily focus ...

FORUM COLUMN - By David A. Lash and Brandie Odgers - Lost in the debate over immigration are those thousands of families who a...

FORUM COLUMN - By Stephen Rohde - In 1798, Thomas Jefferson wrote that "Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen...

FORUM COLUMN - As they come of age, five years after Sept. 11, 2001, today's high-school students remind us of how far removed...

FOCUS COLUMN - In July began a trial period of the Patent Prosecution Highway, a cooperative effort between the U.S. Patent an...

Federal courts of appeals in June 2006 created or deepened conflicts of authority on important questions relating to anti-disc...

FORUM COLUMN - The state Supreme Court's decision in Copley Press Inc. v. Superior Court, 2006 DJDAR 11839 (Aug. 31, 2006), un...

Doggone it (a euphemism for what I'm thinking). To stay with the metaphor, I am dogged by complaints of people I know unleashi...

FORUM COLUMN - Curiously, a male candidate for a job at a law firm repeatedly asked the firm interviewers about the firm's tre...

Forum Colmn - The Sixth Amendment right to counsel means that a criminal defendant who can afford to pay for an attorney gener...

A while ago, California courts started to summarily adjudicate out (that is, before trial) a bad-faith claim; that would happe...

With all the ink that has been spilled in the wake of the 9-0 Supreme Court's Burlington Northern v. White decision, 2006 DJDA...

Forum Column - Although a single year is too little basis for drawing broad conclusions about the Roberts court, one trend see...

Forum Column - Hooray for Gov. Schwarzenegger! Did I just say that, me, a Democrat? I voted for Gray Davis three times for gov...

Letter to the Editor - The recent judicial profile of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Antonio Barreto, "The Hardest Working G...

Governor Schwarzenegger, fearing further federal court takeover of the state's prison system, recently called for a special le...

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 ...