Congressional attempts to secure former President Donald Trump’s tax returns and related tax information is in the news again ...

If the most potent existential threats to the Olympic Games are war and terrorism, pandemic also makes the podium. This year, ...

Known mostly these days for his character Harry Bosch–he of the popular television series bearing his name–best-selling Los An...

If California is proud of its position as the nation’s progressive bastion, it is absurd that it lets its residents go bankrup...

Attorneys may take varied views on the prospect of retirement. Some wish to remain practicing attorneys, or at least affiliate...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will soon be weighing in on the national conversation on discrimination with actions,...

Whenever money changes hands, there are tax issues, and that is certainly true with the legal settlement by celebrity Chef Mar...

Over 20 years ago, during a business trip to Los Angeles, an old law school friend managed to sneak in an hour for dinner with...

Part 4: Litigators’ duties owed to clients with Alzheimer’s

As originally enacted in 1872, CCP Section 387 specified that “any person may, before trial, intervene” which courts interpret...

While a “subrogated insurer is said to ‘stand in the shoes’ of its insured, because it has no greater rights than the insured....

Besides using AI for the good of mankind, there is also the opposite side of the coin and the application of AI to commit crim...

America must do more to keep women veterans out of jail.

In Jolie v. Superior Court, Angelina Jolie obtained a writ of mandate from the 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 7 orderi...

No, as enjoyable an image as it may conjure up, chances are that you probably won’t be seeing a large number of your bar colle...

Titles can be misleading... even my own

On July 21, a California appellate court issued a significant decision involving royalty agreements

Trial judges from across the state weigh in on proper brief writing — including their thoughts on attacks on opposing counsel.

Ironically, while MICRA has threatened the lives and wellbeing of patients, it has not even helped doctors. Despite MICRA, th...

It not surprising that, for better or worse, the creative juices of lawyers considering arbitrator bias claims continue to flow.

In a recent case, the court denied the estate’s motion to discuss, finding that even non-willful penalties survived the taxpay...

For many employers, if not all, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape of the workplace. Particularly, the hybrid bus...

Trained as a lawyer, with a year clerking on the 9th Circuit, Dahlia Lithwick writes for Slate, the influential online news ma...

In a recent ruling, the California Supreme Court analyzed how stare decisis applies to a 19th century decision with questionab...

Anyone who's been around the Federal Arbitration Act block knows that the grounds for relief are exceedingly limited. But if a...

The use of computational pattern matching known as machine learning has taken the marketplace by storm in all realms, includin...

Did you know that on or near every military base in the United States is a food pantry? Did you know that more than one-third ...

Part 3: Duties owed by associates of afflicted lawyers

Way back in 2014, IRS ruled that cryptocurrency is property in Notice 2014-21. That classification as property has some big ta...

San Francisco teems with icons: Alcatraz, cable cars, the Transamerica Pyramid. The greatest is the Golden Gate Bridge, an eng...