On Oct. 13, the Supreme Court denied the plaintiffs’ petition for certiorari in a case accusing the president of violating the...

There’s a sound physiological reason that teens on average are less prudent than adults. The prefrontal cortex governing behav...

This bill makes nonjudicial foreclosures slower, more expensive, and a less appealing remedy against defaulting trustors-debto...

The California Supreme Court will soon decide whether to review Johnson v. Monsanto, a product-liability case that spawned ten...

Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act, offers a potential solution to the EU’s call for action after invalidating ...

On Jan. 3, California regulators listed delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, more commonly known as THC, as a Proposition 65 chemical...

Lawyers continue to work full time while serving as teachers, housekeepers, chefs and caregivers. As a result, lawyers must fi...

Existing exhortations about allowing nonlawyers to practice law has created alternative visions about a possible two-tiered ap...

Just like a carpenter, trial lawyers must have specialized tools ready to tackle unexpected situations.

A recent ethics opinion by the American Bar Association examines intimate relationships, friendships and acquaintances with op...

On March 13, President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since that time, the Californi...

“It’s not my victory, it’s yours and yours and yours,” Harvey Milk said after winning a seat on the San Francisco Board of Sup...

Ground-breaking research, published this week, reports that the high minimum passing score (“cut score”) on the California bar...

After a silly season of song suits, we may be returning to the tradition of standing on giants’ shoulders, borrowing words or ...

McAfee’s circumstances may not appear to offer much guidance to the vast majority of taxpayers out there, big and small. But a...

Senate Bill 10, a law passed in 2018, aims to prevent those who cannot afford nominal bail from remaining incarcerated during ...

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in what could have been a pivotal case about whether anti-SLAPP belongs i...

Critics of a recent decision have questioned the basis for concluding that the joinder and institution are “separate” decision...

When we cast our vote for president this time around, the best many of us will be able to do is hold our nose and breath, and ...

The U.S. Department of Labor recently updated its interpretation of the joint-employer rule under the Fair Labor Standards Act...

Practically all of the patent cases in the Western District of Texas are on Judge Albright’s docket. As the figure below shows...

On Nov. 3, California's electorate will vote on Proposition 19, a constitutional amendment that would substantially restrict p...

A federal appellate court found that class representative incentive awards — the common practice of permitting a court-supervi...

The court recently wrestled with in rem jurisdiction issues in a civil forfeiture case, and the law remains far from clear.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett is 48 years old. If she is confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court and remains on the court until she is 8...

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case examining whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act p...

For nearly two weeks now, 7,000 miles away from California, the native Christian-Armenian people of the Republics of Artsakh a...

While Prop. 65 cases normally settle early, numerous defenses do exist.

On Oct. 2, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Barr v. Dai, a case that will decisively uphold or strip asylum applicants ...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a pair of cases involving Arizona’s prohibition of so-called “ballot...