Many decades ago, judges were more guarded about who they truly were as human beings. Today most are more willing to reveal th...

Maybe Plato had a point – democracy is pretty good, but once in a while it gets out of hand, and nine old wise guys and gals a...

An urgent public interest exists in the U.S. Supreme Court resolving the uncertainty and controversy about whether Trump is el...

It is true that body language and other forms of nonverbal communication have meaning. I am unaware of anyone who disputes suc...

After Ruth died, Christopher Scalia shared the story of an encounter between his father and a fellow judge years earlier in Ju...

Only one nation – the United States of America – allows jury trials in the vast majority of civil cases.

SB 345 is the latest of a series of measures passed by the Legislature recently seeking to protect Californians from the overr...

California Court Of Appeal rules that manager’s destruction of company records supports finding of unity of interest sufficien...

The SpaceX countersuit claims that it has a constitutional right to have the case heard in an “Article III” court and calls fo...

Although separated by nearly ninety years, the parallels between the Trump and Lucania prosecutions are many, and if you squin...

The expansions in Senate Bill 567 collectively create a more encompassing and equitable framework for tenant rights and afford...

Effective networking isn't about amassing a vast number of business cards or attending countless events--it's about cultivatin...

Foreign national clients are often confused about their visa options and durations for staying in the U.S., with some cases su...

From the start, the PPP loan program was destined for problems. Speed was prioritized over security, and conscious choices wer...

While the industry watches and waits for the outcome of the lawsuit filed by six trade associations against the SEC, private f...

As California lawyers, we are actually assisted by our status as the last holdout state to adopt some version of ABA rule 8.3 ...

How the annual civility oath will be taken and documented is not entirely clear, but the simple recitation of words once a yea...

The Google case is historically significant as the first major antitrust challenge against a tech company in over two decades,...

Oppressive examples of college athletes signing away lifetime rights for deals now may not provide the long-term benefits they...

One of the classic things that courts have used to restart any limitations period has been the level of noise produced. That i...

Though there are plenty of legitimate ERC claims, there have been fraudulent ones too. As a result, businesses that legitimate...

It simply does not make sense or constitute sound public policy that anticompetitive agreements and conduct involving “combina...

The court appears to be willing to exercise personal jurisdiction based on a defendant’s prior operations and activities in a ...

In recent years, the CFPB and FTC have taken aggressive enforcement actions against debt relief companies, putting the credit ...

If professional court reporters will not be producing the transcripts from recordings of court proceedings and gig transcriber...

The question arises whether universities should provide warnings about potential liability alongside their legally mandated st...

Thanks to Assembly Bill 1307, UC Berkeley’s student housing initiative, and similar projects that faced public scrutiny, can p...

Everything is “inherent” when understanding a public entity’s duty to warn for hazardous recreational activities. Several rece...

If you can, banish the fact section completely and discuss pertinent facts in the proper level of detail in the argument. Orga...

Senate Bill 2 eliminates the good cause requirement for the issuance of said permit to carry, and whose counterpart version in...