How to stay golden when migrating from the Golden State

Shouting and blasting from synagogues to Washington DC

What ethical obligations arise when an attorney is required to withdraw from representation because the client’s claim(s) lack...

Due increasing lateral movement, it is more important than ever that firms take a close look at who they are hiring and how to...

In a 4-3 decision, and after many months of deliberation, the Arizona Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling on Sept. 16 in Bru...

Judges should be held to the highest of ethical standards, and there's no reason they should keep a reward, like a pension, if...

A bankruptcy proceeding isn’t ordinarily what you think of as a Supreme Court blockbuster. But when the bankruptcy proceeding ...

The Los Angeles City Council is on the verge of enacting our own Right to Counsel Program, providing legal counsel to tenants ...

With climate change at our doorstep, our state leaders know we don’t have time to wait until the next drought to create a more...

Based upon a long line of California cases, a new ethics opinion acknowledges the potential dual benefits to both clients and ...

Sometimes, a lawyer might be the first responder

In a recent case of first impression, the California Supreme Court considered whether settling with a party in a multiparty to...

Assembly Bill 1270 (Stone) is an attempt to expand the False Claims Act to allow the attorney general, local prosecutors and p...

The California Supreme Court has rejected the government's attempt to require a youth probationer, as a condition of release, ...

The shore defining the boundary of indigent defendants' constitutional right to forestall or forego liability for certain asse...

States are increasingly recognizing that lives can be saved by Extreme Risk Protection laws, which enable people who exhibit ...

Are we in the midst of a similar trend in formal legal writing, relaxing the use of contractions? Are the few judicial contrac...

August — the month that many of my readers are on vacation. So why write an August column? Other columnists take off a month o...

We send them there. We break them. Then we take away their benefits.

Our country can uphold both national security and its commitment to refugee protection. Indeed, it's done exactly that for dec...

Last month, the San Francisco City Council voted to prohibit city agencies from using facial recognition software on municipal...

Currently pending before the California Supreme Court is an issue that calls into question the motivations of California offic...

Now that California has adopted its own version of ABA rule 8.4, Misconduct, it is increasingly apparent that an attorney´s of...

The California State Bar Ethics Committee recently joined the discussion regarding legal services to cannabis clients in a pro...

There may now be three justices open to moving away from substantive due process as the basis for incorporating the rights the...

In May 2015, The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board asked readers, “Could you live in L.A. on $221 a month?” The answer then, a...

Ethical lawyer advertising can be like a high-wire act.

They profoundly influence our lives. They can be found all over the world. When not fulfilling their mission, they blend in wi...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed at the end of 2017 doubled the estate and gift tax exemption. With much aplomb, it was announ...

On the morning of September 28 last year, Sen. Jeff Flake announced he would be voting to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. A few hours...