Decades of underbuilding, largely due to red tape imposed by prohibitive land use laws, has pushed California into a housing c...

President Joe Biden proposed a 43.4% capital gain rate, but it is supposed to hit only those earning $1 million or more. Of co...

"All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days: An American Woman at the Heart of the Resistance to Hitler," by Rebecca Donner (Random ...

The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are the only judges in our country who are not subject to a code of judicial ethic...

Legal handwringing is taking place about the increasing use by the U.S. Supreme Court of a shadow dockets approach that produc...

Attorneys from Johnson & Johnson LLP in Beverly Hills review recent developments affecting music litigation. MCLE available.

A district court in Arizona recently directed the EPA and Army Corps to apply the pre-2015 standard for Clean Water Act jurisd...

For generations, it did not seem possible that college athletes could earn big before they went pro. Some star high school ath...

Quite often the thing that your client fears will harm the case is irrelevant and not be admissible at trial to begin with.

CEQA analysis of climate change has shifted. The alarm bell’s focus must include raising public awareness about how climate ch...

The statutory presumption of at-will employment, codified in California Labor Code Section 2922, remains an unjust vestige of ...

America’s longstanding antitrust policy is under fierce attack. What was once a relatively insipid area of law characterized b...

The Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance on July 28 outlawing camping around parks, libraries and other public buildin...

What has been missing from the discussion of the Texas law prohibiting abortions is why it was structured to allow only civil ...

Last week, about eight months after taking office, President Joe Biden finally announced that enough is enough and ordered tha...

S.B. 8 sets procedural traps, but providers and advocates can overcome them through the ordinary processes of presenting const...

Two years ago, Kathy Williams, a Missouri woman, fell down a flight of stairs in her home and died. Her blood alcohol level wa...

How fortunate we are to have Professors Paul Bergman and Michael Asimow again offering invaluable insights into the movies we ...

You know that feeling you get when you want to yell at the screen because a fictional lawyer in a television show mishandled a...

In his latest installment documenting his in-person trial gone remote, Kiesel discusses training the jury to participate remot...

A recent case questions whether a single “co-registered” owner could validly consent to the tracking of a vehicle driven prima...

A recent appellate opinion will serve as a stark warning to defense counsel to advise their clients about the risks, and not j...

I’d like to think Judge Romero was my friend. When I thought about applying to the bench, his was the first advice I sought. H...

I usually opine that attorneys smart enough to give good advice are smart enough to give none. I will now ignore my own advice...

Every litigator knows the anxiety of getting ready to press send on a big document production and, no matter how carefully the...

When American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center at 8:45 a.m., followed by United Airli...

A review of the development and future of pay equality.

In 2013, the California Legislature passed a consumer-friendly law requiring life insurers to comply with enhanced notice requ...

When does it make the most sense to choose arbitration, and what are the advantages?

Anyone immersed in the law knows that discretion is a cornerstone to our form of jurisprudence. Discretion is powerful. It can...