State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education
Congress must act to relieve student debt burden
The burden of overwhelming debt is hurting many new graduates — including lawyers — and that affects the American economy. You...
Contracts
Discover some effective terms for seeking and obtaining indemnification that protect both parties and reduce the likelihood of...
Real Estate/Development, Land Use
Decades of underbuilding, largely due to red tape imposed by prohibitive land use laws, has pushed California into a housing c...
Law Practice
Why clients should be completely honest with lawyers
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
Antitrust reform has been a long time in the making
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
How fortunate we are to have Professors Paul Bergman and Michael Asimow again offering invaluable insights into the movies we ...
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
The soft death knell of Roe
Today, perhaps more than any other day, we mourn the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Law Practice
"Be the Jury" pilot program can help diversify juries.
Family
Training programs, like a mandatory training on limited conservatorships conducted last week by the Los Angeles County Bar Ass...
If trends continue, California could lose Colorado River water supply.
Law Practice
The decline and fall of court appearance decorum
As COVID-19 forces counsel to make remote court appearances, an inadvertent casualty of the pandemic is that some attorneys ar...
Criminal
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
Q&A with Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School
The revered professor has been for 40 years one of the nation's preeminent constitutional scholars. He's known as a great teac...
Civil Litigation
In a groundbreaking lawsuit, the Mexican government filed suit against eight American gun manufacturers, accusing them of bein...
Government, Constitutional Law
When Washington bureaucrats control the reins of power
Only days after admitting it needed Congress to help extend the eviction moratorium, the Biden administration went and did it ...
Insurance
Time for California to reform insurance requirements
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
What's in a title? Who cares?
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
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...
U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld your constitutional right to privacy of association. On July 1, in a 6-3 opinion in American...
Civil Rights
Cruelty will not solve the ‘homelessness problem’ in LA
According to data from the last Homeless Count in 2020, the city will have to house more than 66,000 people. Now it’s time to ...
Judges and Judiciary
How to drive James Joyce nuts
Just think if James Joyce were writing his magnum opus “Finnegans Wake” today on a computer, auto correct would drive him over...
U.S. Supreme Court, Government
There has been much buzz about the surprising loquaciousness of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a statement regarding...
Law Practice, Civil Rights
The pop singer’s conservatorship case is a perfect example of why laws that “protect” the right to counsel have too many looph...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
In Pakdel v. City and County of San Francisco, the Supreme Court spoke with one voice. Knick v. Township of Scott means what i...