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Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary

My warranty is up

Oct. 5, 2021

I am optimistic that Supreme Court justices who read this column will take my advice and write shorter opinions.


Mexican-Americans faced horrifying discrimination in this country. In her book “All For One & One For All,” author Amy Wat...



Law Practice

A court reporter’s gavel-to-gavel account of a four-month Zoom trial during COVID


Corporate, Civil Litigation, California Courts of Appeal

A recent appellate court opinion that is now certified for publication resolves some open questions about how membership inte...



Civil Litigation, Bankruptcy

After agreeing to settle some 2,600 separate lawsuits over the company’s involvement in fostering the nation’s opioid crisis, ...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education

The burden of overwhelming debt is hurting many new graduates — including lawyers — and that affects the American economy. You...



Discover some effective terms for seeking and obtaining indemnification that protect both parties and reduce the likelihood of...


Decades of underbuilding, largely due to red tape imposed by prohibitive land use laws, has pushed California into a housing c...



Quite often the thing that your client fears will harm the case is irrelevant and not be admissible at trial to begin with.


Government, Antitrust & Trade Reg., Administrative/Regulatory

America’s longstanding antitrust policy is under fierce attack. What was once a relatively insipid area of law characterized b...



Health Care & Hospital Law, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights

S.B. 8 sets procedural traps, but providers and advocates can overcome them through the ordinary processes of presenting const...


Law Practice, Entertainment & Sports, Books

Real to Reel

Sep. 13, 2021

How fortunate we are to have Professors Paul Bergman and Michael Asimow again offering invaluable insights into the movies we ...



Obituaries, Judges and Judiciary

I’d like to think Judge Romero was my friend. When I thought about applying to the bench, his was the first advice I sought. H...


U.S. Supreme Court, Health Care & Hospital Law, Constitutional Law

Today, perhaps more than any other day, we mourn the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.



"Be the Jury" pilot program can help diversify juries.


Training programs, like a mandatory training on limited conservatorships conducted last week by the Los Angeles County Bar Ass...



Environmental & Energy

If trends continue, California could lose Colorado River water supply.


As COVID-19 forces counsel to make remote court appearances, an inadvertent casualty of the pandemic is that some attorneys ar...



As we face the most challenging public health crisis of our lifetime, we should not forget how that crisis interacts with and ...


U.S. Supreme Court, Legal Education, Law Practice

The revered professor has been for 40 years one of the nation's preeminent constitutional scholars. He's known as a great teac...



In a groundbreaking lawsuit, the Mexican government filed suit against eight American gun manufacturers, accusing them of bein...


Government, Constitutional Law

Only days after admitting it needed Congress to help extend the eviction moratorium, the Biden administration went and did it ...



If California is proud of its position as the nation’s progressive bastion, it is absurd that it lets its residents go bankrup...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary

Titles can be misleading... even my own



Torts/Personal Injury, Civil Litigation

While technology gurus have praised Tesla’s autopilot feature, the feature has put Tesla in uncharted legal territory. A recen...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary

Our nation and our people are strongly but fairly evenly divided. Both sides claim the high ground. Too many of us irrationall...



California Supreme Court

‘Jurassic’ Wisdom

Jul. 20, 2021

A five-justice majority of the California Supreme Court recently held that appellate courts owed no deference to a trial court...


Civil Rights, California Supreme Court

It is time to approach the officials with ultimate responsibility over legal ethics and the delivery of competent legal servic...



U.S. Supreme Court, Government

In Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, a six-justice U.S. Supreme Court majority sent a message to the country: If you...


The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld your constitutional right to privacy of association. On July 1, in a 6-3 opinion in American...