The Indian Child Welfare Act, and potentially tribal sovereignty, suffered a significant setback last week when a federal cour...

This term the Supreme Court has a chance to overturn a decades-old decision that kept many property owners out of federal courts.

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. For years, law enforcement agencies, social service providers, non-gove...

The new Rule 5.5 modifies former Rule of Professional Conduct 1-300, titled “Unauthorized Practice of Law.”

It does not always occur to attorneys to formally close the matter internally and to send a file closing letter to a client.

Take a look around you. Consider what is occurring throughout the country. An uneducated citizenry and one predominantly educa...

There are countless reasons why people who are sexually assaulted or abused do not report what happened: It’s painful. It’s em...

This article not a judgment on the merits of capital punishment or its appropriateness in these cases, which include defendant...

Earn MCLE credit reviewing a recent Supreme Court case dealing with a conflict waiver that didn't quite get the job done.

Given the requirement to promptly refund unearned advance fees, once the disputed funds are identified and segregated, lawyers...

In a case of first impression, a California Court of Appeal recently held that only trustees and beneficiaries under a current...

Walking into the inner sanctum of a judge’s chambers, I immediately felt a sense of awe. Sure it was filled with lots of diplo...

The affordable housing crisis in California is longstanding and well known. A recent California Court of Appeal decision addre...

If you stop by family court for an hour, you will see lawyered-up C-suite executives and self-represented day laborers sitting...

A little-known California constitutional provision allows courts to overturn election results due to defamation if the losing ...

When it comes to legal malpractice cases, there's rumor going around that "emotional distress damages" actually exist.

There is a new kind of risk in California law that affects the way cases should be analyzed, on appeal, in trial, through sett...

At the end of last term, the U.S. Supreme Court hammered a bit deeper the wedge it had previously inserted between electronic ...

The 3rd District Court of Appeal recently ruled that the public trust doctrine can apply to groundwater extraction, but the co...

Did you know that the subatomic particle, the quark, derives its name from Joyce’s impenetrable novel “Finnegan’s Wake”?

As football is America's favorite spectator sport, it is not surprising that many football terms have crept into our everyday ...

Adopting technologies can help lawyers reduce the risk or even the impact of the mistakes and client relations issues that can...

Possible federal action imposes grave immigration consequences on older adults and their families for accessing public benefits.

San Francisco’s law goes into effect in January, paving the way for it to become the largest city in the United States to ban ...

The unmistakable takeaways from a recent California Supreme Court ruling: (1) Clients get notice. Period. No exceptions. And (...

Lawyers face unique ethical and professional issues when representing cannabis businesses.

A Court of Appeal ruling muddles law concerning the applicable causation standard when a lawyer is sued for fraud or intention...

Effective Jan. 1, 2019, Senate Bill 766 amends the California International Arbitration statute with new rules for California ...

As soon as something goes wrong in a representation, the first instinct for many attorneys may be to turn to colleagues for ad...

Since the last effort in 2000, there has been little public discourse about the need to put a constitutional amendment on the ...