Wills, Estates & Trusts
Beyond the family home: The Great Wealth Transfer and the rise of stewardship - part one
By Holly Gilani, Barry Resnick
The Great Wealth Transfer is shifting estate planning from simply transferring assets to preparing future generations to gover...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Health care fraud is surging, and enforcement is racing to keep up
By Derrelle Janey, John G. Moon
California has emerged as a major focal point in the healthcare fraud crisis, with regulators targeting a surge of sham hospic...
Torts/Personal Injury
The overlooked safety decisions behind serious truck crashes
By Daniel W. Munley
The U.S. Supreme Court's May decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II LLC has ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
McGrath: Potential conflicts can void engagement agreements
By Brandon L. Winchel
McGrath underscores the importance of identifying and disclosing potential conflicts of interest at the outset of a rep...
As AI rapidly transforms litigation practice, boutique firms face a pivotal choice: embrace the technology with caution or ris...
If AI delivers a brief faster and cheaper, why do we need the lawyer at all? One litigant has already decided we don't.
Technology
K.G.M. verdict tests limits of Section 230 and platform design liability
By Samer Habbas
The K.G.M. case highlights a shift from content-based immunity under Section 230 toward negligent design theories, expe...
Labor/Employment
Remote work isn't a default disability accommodation
By Michael W.M. Manoukian
Recent FEHA and ADA rulings confirm that remote work isn't an automatic disability accommodation. Courts still require employe...
Birthright citizenship remains constitutional law, and for millions of California families in mixed-status households, that ru...
Torts/Personal Injury
The rise of private policing and the future of tort liability
By K. Chike Odiwe
As California tallies 32,000 arrests and $260 million in recovered merchandise, a largely overlooked consequence is taking sha...
Space Law/Aviation/Aerospace
The United States Space Force: The 6th branch
By Eileen C. Moore
The Space Force is more than America's newest military branch--it was created to protect the space systems that support both n...
From a judge's observation that truth has a "ring" emerges a meditation on memory, credibility, and why authentic testimony co...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Licensed in Illinois, untouchable in California: The extraordinary career of Sidney Korshak
By William M. Paparian
Sidney Roy Korshak was an Illinois-licensed lawyer who never practiced in California yet became one of Los Angeles's most infl...
Family
Custody disputes increasingly cross borders in California family courts
By Noel E. Guth
California family courts are increasingly being asked to resolve custody disputes that span countries, languages and cultures-...
Military Law
B-52 crash raises important questions of federal law
By Michael E. Rubinstein
The June 15 B-52 crash at Edwards Air Force Base, which killed eight people, creates a legal divide under the Federal Tort Cla...
Cite Out at the Big Nerd Corral
By Benjamin G. Shatz
Standoff at the table of authorities. Two guides enter. Can only one survive?
The first of five articles on what artificial intelligence will do to the practice of law.
Technology
Opening the litigation floodgates against social media companies
By Samer Habbas
A Los Angeles jury verdict in K.G.M. v. Meta Platforms, Inc. & YouTube LLC signals a pote...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
Independent regulators now work for the president
By William Rothbard
In Trump v. Slaughter (2026), the Supreme Court overrules Humphrey's Executor and embraces a strong ...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
Trump v. Barbara: Competing originalist narratives
By Marc D. Alexander
In Trump v. Barbara (2026), the Supreme Court reaffirmed birthright citizenship under the 14t...
AI's growing role in the courts, including efforts by Chief Justice Guerrero and Presiding Judge Tapia to draft ethical AI gui...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
The 2nd Amendment meets the front door of private property
By William Slomanson
In Wolford v. Lopez, the Supreme Court upheld Hawaii's law requiring concealed-carry permit holders to obtain express p...
U.S. Supreme Court, Litigation & Arbitration
What the Supreme Court's Jules v. Andre Balazs ruling means for arbitration jurisdiction
By Zach Howe, Madeline Horner
The Supreme Court's unanimous decision in Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties clarifies when federal courts retain jurisdi...
How to build the Appellant's Appendix, consult trial counsel, identify key documents, develop a unifying theme, and conduct pr...
U.S. Supreme Court, Torts/Personal Injury
After Durnell, California's Roundup litigation model faces a federal reckoning
By Lauren Sheets Jarrell
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Monsanto v. Durnell undermines the legal foundation of thousands of California ...
Technology
Quantum computing and the future of cybersecurity: What organizations need to know now
By Wynter L. Deagle, Fred Qiu
Although cryptographically relevant quantum computers remain years away, organizations that delay planning for post-quantum cr...
When witnesses can be compelled to testify at trial, practitioners should focus depositions on obtaining information they do n...
Although California's implicit bias jury instruction encourages jurors to engage in more deliberate decision-making, implicit ...
A look at how judicial independence has enabled courts to protect -- and, at times, fail to protect -- constitutional equality...
Technology, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
California's proposed AI ethics rules have a blind spot for agentic AI
By Joe Stephens
The proposed California ethics rules would incorporate artificial intelligence into existing professional conduct rules, but q...