Just this past week, jails throughout California have literally been shut down because of outbreaks of Omicron. When jails shu...

Why? A plan to use an innocent man’s conviction to demonstrate the unfairness of death sentences based on circumstantial evide...

From public service to big business

In October 2021, I walked into my office in downtown San Francisco after 18 months of working from home. What I had learned wa...

If the 9th Circuit is serious about protecting detained defendants, it must be willing to let courts dismiss with prejudice or...

It’s no secret that 2021 was a boom year for all sorts of transactions, including the Boss earning over $500 million for the r...

Current information security and risk mitigation approaches are ineffective. This is nowhere more apparent than in critical su...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling striking down the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s vaccine rules is an ominous ...

On February 1, the Los Angeles County Bar Association is presenting an online panel discussion titled: “Hastings Name Change: ...

The California Supreme Court recently answered this question in a case involving the following scenario: Plaintiffs sued defen...

When former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai left the agency, there was hope that government regulators mig...

Regarding Neil Auwarter’s January 7 guest column, “Of filibusters and festive bachelors: The dark purpose of the Senate’s mino...

In his January 10 guest column, “Talking to strangers: Lessons for lawyers,” Syed H. Mannan states, “As lawyers, this social s...

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health has voted to adopt a new set of COVID-19 emergency temporary standar...

With the election of Donald Trump, law school deans experienced something extraordinary that goes to the very core of the miss...

A conviction need not be the end of the road for a criminal defendant. Here is a quick primer on the fundamentals of preparing...

Many attorneys view appellate lawyers like me as scholarly nerds, parsing ancient cases for tidbits of dicta that support a no...

As Californians digest the practical implications of the bill, reconciling Senate Bill 9 with existing housing laws, including...

Many attorneys and litigants believe that the appellate court is another opportunity to argue their case. It is often thought ...

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Biden administration’s effort to turn the Occupational Safety and Health Admi...

Baseball is the first game to be given an exemption under federal law that applies to other businesses. But that may be about ...

If big law 2021 was, as many firms are reporting, a whopper of a year, 2022 looks to be even better.

As the holiday season brings about exponential growth in ex partes seeking holiday visitation orders, the dawning of the new y...

The metaverse brings a universe of new intellectual property questions: For example, what about the use of tattoos on avatars?...

Practitioners representing survivors of sexual abuse sue the State of the Vatican City (i.e., Holy See) because they argue tha...

Using a questionnaire, I am usually successful in swearing in the jury and the alternates on the first day of trial. Sometimes...

2022 marks the 50th Anniversary of Title IX, a groundbreaking federal law that has significantly expanded educational opportun...

Last year an appellate court clarified some 30 years of conflicting caselaw on the procedure for amending trust documents, but...

While the United States performs strongly in certain areas, it falls behind in the civil justice and criminal justice categories.

Attorneys have to have many difficult conversations with clients; sometimes it can be tough to get a client to moderate their ...