Social media has blurred the line between official and personal speech for public employees, creating new legal challenges ove...

Year-end settlements, driven by psychological, financial, and tax incentives, allow litigants and attorneys to avoid the holid...

California's wildfire litigation is echoing the post-Katrina struggle over causation, with courts now facing the pivotal quest...

A GOP lawsuit over California's new district maps tests whether the state's largest ethnic group -- Latinos -- can still quali...

In Murphy v. Pina, the Court of Appeal held that a body shop was not liable for injuries and death caused by a teenage...

California's 60-day appeal deadline works fine when attorneys calendar filings for day 45 instead of day 60, making the propos...

On Veterans Day, we honor Justice Buck Compton -- a Silver Star-winning D-Day hero, Band of Brothers paratrooper and longtime ...

In anticipation of Veterans Day, the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Armed Forces Committee gathered attorneys, judges, a...

As flu season sets in, even the most tireless lawyer must recognize when illness demands a pause -- because ethical duties don...

Some fertility plaintiffs may endure painful follow-up procedures--yet still face taxes on settlements, depending on how claim...

California's gerrymandering isn't about principle -- it's a necessary defense against Republican election cheating and to prot...

Every trial is a battle of stories, and the one that makes jurors feel the facts -- not just hear them -- is the one that wins.

A recent en banc decision by the Federal Circuit in EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google LLC (2025) -- left standing by the U.S. ...

AI hallucinations reveal the resilience and limits of our adversarial process. Institutional skepticism eventually catches fak...

Betting, branding and foreign financing were once unthinkable in college sports -- now they're on the table. Without a federal...

Unlike the dot-com era, when women were largely sidelined, the AI boom offers a historic opportunity for women to lead by leve...

The Kruitbosch decision underscores that employers may still face liability for off-site harassment -- depending not o...

By consolidating both discretionary and merits-based institution decisions under the Director, the USPTO has reshaped the IPR ...

James Madison warned that a functioning republic depends on an informed citizenry, yet President Trump's unprecedented pattern...

Edison's Eaton Fire compensation program is fundamentally unfair, designed to minimize payouts, lacks neutral oversight or neg...

California joins other states where partisan gerrymandering skews representation, disenfranchises voters and fuels political p...

True advocacy in mediation requires not aggression but ethics -- competence, diligence, civility and integrity are what make a...

California's new AB 250 reopens the door for time-barred sexual assault claims, giving plaintiffs a two-year window starting J...