With NIL valuations and endorsements influencing every stakeholder in college sports--from the players and coaches to a school...

In FEHA mediations, nuanced questions involving back pay, mitigation and non-wage losses can significantly affect the value of...

California art transactions sit within ordinary commercial law, but art-specific statutes can displace familiar assumptions ab...

Justice Clarence Thomas has advanced a series of far-reaching constitutional positions that would significantly narrow federal...

Experienced counsel know mediation preparation is not one-size-fits-all. Tailoring the process to each client's experience, ne...

Mediator certification is a solution in search of a nonexistent problem, and applying real due process to the State Bar's disc...

California employers and unions can obtain workplace violence restraining orders quickly, yet few use them. Understanding the ...

AT&T's effort to retire traditional landline service in California presents a classic federalism dispute over the boundary...

Workplace Violence Restraining Orders under CCP § 527.8 offer retailers a far more effective way to stop recurring violence, t...

Attorneys who use AI must do so with their eyes wide open, understanding its limitations and recognizing that their work is ju...

A recent appellate decision makes clear that an insurer's unreasonable delay in paying benefits can trigger bad faith liabilit...

Overly broad discovery requests waste time, drive up costs and fuel unnecessary disputes; smarter, more targeted requests get ...

Two verdicts, one summer: What Byrne v. Ameris Bank and Glick v. City of Los Angeles should teach every employme...

Artificial intelligence could help judges identify errors and protect absent or vulnerable parties in uncontested proceedings,...

WilmerHale's review of the Gates Foundation's ties to Jeffrey Epstein illustrates how a narrowly scoped investigation can prod...

When a driverless car breaks the law in California, the violation now goes to the manufacturer's regulator instead of to a dri...

The Ninth Circuit's Theis decision clarifies public employees' workplace speech protections, holding that when employee...

Effective mediation requires attorneys to prepare not only the case but also the client by reducing anxiety, encouraging persp...

Purpose-built AI tools that catch curable defects before filing and flag issues during court review--from pleadings and defaul...

California courts and legislation have narrowed several long-held assumptions about arbitration--including its confidentiality...

California's status as a pure no-fault divorce state, established in 1969, is now facing renewed reform proposals, prompting a...

California's enforcement of Senate Bill 54 faces competing legal challenges, with one lawsuit attacking the statute's constitu...

The Trump administration's rollback of federal and California vehicle emissions standards threatens to worsen the state's alre...

Successful arbitration depends on thorough early case management, with attorneys carefully navigating AAA procedural requireme...

As California courts increasingly apply the disentitlement doctrine to family law disputes, it should never be used to strip d...

Despite civil contempt's criminal-like protections--including proof beyond a reasonable doubt and the right to counsel--Califo...

The 14th Annual Cultural Competency in Family Law Practice Seminar urged lawyers and judges to view disability and neurodiverg...

The California Supreme Court's landmark J.O. decision restores judicial oversight of bad-faith judicial disqualificatio...

Marking its 10th anniversary, Los Angeles' DREAM Court has served sexually exploited children as dependents rather than crimin...