From Halloween to New Year's, America's four major holidays form a deliberate cultural scaffold that lifts a diverse nation fr...

The evolution of the legal profession over recent decades -- marked by gains in diversity and technology but a troubling decli...

Liability insurers' use of catch-all language in Intellectual Property and Habitability exclusions -- designed to eliminate co...

Chinese court proceedings share fundamental principles with U.S. courts -- from presumption of innocence to contract law doctr...

Jonathan Demson, a quietly brilliant and fiercely dedicated solo appellate attorney who handled over 400 cases, argued four ti...

A year after California passed SB 976 to curb minors' social-media addiction, a wave of First Amendment lawsuits from tech gia...

A new Second Amendment Rights Section within the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division marks a dramatic shift in federal ...

A $10,000 sanctions case revealed how deeply generative AI unsettles the legal system. The passion it inspires isn't new. Plat...

President Trump's pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted of trafficking over 400 tons o...

California State Sen. Scott Wiener's proposed "No Kings Act" expands existing state protections and aims to hold government ag...

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California's legal market presents complex risks, and some firms explore international insurers, such as Lloyd's of London, as...

Business cases turn on getting documents into evidence, so trial lawyers must beat hearsay objections by knowing what counts a...

Democracy depends on shared facts, fairness and the rule of law; when trust erodes, it falls to citizens and leaders to rebuil...

The law shapes every stage of a work of art's life -- from its creation and sale to exhibition, reproduction, donation, and ev...

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Military bases previously renamed to remove Confederate associations have been renamed again to their original surnames, now h...

The NIL era has created a complex marketplace where college athletes, franchises and lawyers must collaborate across sports, f...

Recent California legislation expands public and oversight access to peace officer personnel records while maintaining confide...

The IRS has launched electronic filing for § 83(b) elections via Form 15620, allowing founders and service providers to submit...

Meteoric rise of deepfake AI-generated content creates risks for attorneys.

Most plaintiffs in contingent fee cases must report the entire settlement as income under Commissioner v. Banks, even ...

ABA Opinion 518 restricts how mediators can use the mediator's proposal but makes lawyers responsible for enforcing the bounda...

Effective appellate brief conclusions should be short, precise and relief-focused, balancing the functional purpose of stating...

Despite equal ability, Black and Latino students are routinely denied early algebra access -- turning a curricular choice into...

California law requires landlords to remediate hidden black mold (Stachybotrys chartarum) and structural decay rather than mer...

In his final column as a sitting justice, Arthur Gilbert reflects on five decades of judicial service, the colleagues and staf...

The Racial Justice Act promises to root out racial bias in California's criminal justice system, but that promise will remain ...

California is facing a dual crisis as the engineered stone silicosis epidemic among immigrant workers grows -- now over 435 co...

Just as USDA acted to sustain WIC, it could -- within statutory bounds -- lawfully consider similar tools to bolster SNAP's co...