California Courts of Appeal
A new day has dawned with the California Supreme Court’s approval of new Rule 3.3, Candor Toward the Tribunal, last November. ...
Real Estate/Development, Government
Because 150 people became homeless every day, homelessness rose by 12% last year. We will never end homelessness if we only he...
Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions
While the expense associated with sophisticated M&A counsel may seem excessive, especially to first-time sellers, the real...
Criminal
Among the flurry of bills signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in October were Assembly Bill 61 and Assembly Bill 1493, which expand th...
Criminal, California Supreme Court
Canizales and the kill zone
The California Supreme Court recently brought welcome clarity to the law of the kill zone theory. But even after the latest ru...
Elijah Cummings, Daniel Goodman and George Washington.
Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary
WARE R U?
Contempt for education threatens democratic institutions.
Administrative/Regulatory, U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
How the high court may rule in Seila Law — and why
The Supreme Court should prevent further erosion of the lines drawn by the Constitution and strike down the CFPB's for-cause r...
Constitutional Law, Government
San Diego must shut down facial recognition program
Law enforcement agencies in San Diego County were early adopters of hand-held facial recognition technology. Now these SoCal c...
Civil Rights, Judges and Judiciary, Law Practice
The system looks good on paper. However, in actual practice it is terrible. The rights of seniors and other adults with disabi...
Criminal
What is a kill zone?
Understanding the myriad sources of confusion
Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Criminal
The whole truth
Even our friends who lack a J.D. know, a witness typically swears that she will tell not just the truth, and not just nothing ...
Judges and Judiciary
We count what we care about: Conservatees in California
Bankers know to the penny how much money they are managing in their financial institution. Elections are based on the actual n...
Criminal, California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal
Shocks: after or fore?
The California Supreme Court’s strict circumscription of the “kill zone” theory in a recent case was no doubt designed to shor...
Constitutional Law, U.S. Supreme Court, Criminal
My radical proposal is this: Where a state court misapplies — or even cites and then ignores — Supreme Court precedent, the Su...
How to stay golden when migrating from the Golden State
Shouting and blasting from synagogues to Washington DC
Judges and Judiciary, Civil Rights
Judicial Council has been misinforming about the ADA
The Judicial Council has been misinforming the judiciary about the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act since t...
Intellectual Property
Over the past 230 years, patent law has adapted to accommodate new types of technology. The adaptations can be slow, inconsis...
Civil Rights
Religion is not a license to discriminate anywhere
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 and Judiciary
How to hold misbehaving judges accountable
Judges should be held to the highest of ethical standards, and there's no reason they should keep a reward, like a pension, if...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
An innocuous Supreme Court case could be a blockbuster
A bankruptcy proceeding isn’t ordinarily what you think of as a Supreme Court blockbuster. But when the bankruptcy proceeding ...
Government, Civil Rights
Housing is a human right: A right to counsel for tenants
The Los Angeles City Council is on the verge of enacting our own Right to Counsel Program, providing legal counsel to tenants ...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice
The California Judicial Council is scheduled to adopt new rules requiring conservatorship attorneys to receive education on a ...
Environmental & Energy
New strategies for addressing major change in water law
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...
Sometimes, a lawyer might be the first responder
Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court
In a recent case of first impression, the California Supreme Court considered whether settling with a party in a multiparty to...
Civil Litigation, Government
Legislation will promote frivolous shakedown lawsuits
Assembly Bill 1270 (Stone) is an attempt to expand the False Claims Act to allow the attorney general, local prosecutors and p...
Criminal, Constitutional Law, California Supreme Court
The California Supreme Court has rejected the government's attempt to require a youth probationer, as a condition of release, ...
Criminal, Constitutional Law, California Courts of Appeal
The Jagged Shore
The shore defining the boundary of indigent defendants' constitutional right to forestall or forego liability for certain asse...