The core of our adversarial approach relies upon the essential groundwork of legal argumentation. Lawyers and legal profession...

The “diploma privilege” boils down to full faith and credit access to justice for “Us” and no faith and credit for “Them,” mea...

Leveraging alternative dispute resolution procedures to stay afloat during a pandemic

The Federal Trade Commission recently issued proposed rules for claiming products are “made” in the USA, and penalties under t...

The current disasters across California, the country, and the world are not the “new normal.” In fact, the magnitude and frequ...

President Trump issued an executive memorandum last month to allow payroll tax deferral for employees in response to the ongoi...

The court will consider whether the ‘arise out of or relate to’ requirement for a state court to exercise specific personal ju...

As recent court decisions have shown, one thing that has not changed is an insurer’s duty to investigate a claim submitted by ...

From anti-SLAPP issues to providing ‘clear and convincing evidence’ of knowing falsity, the Harvard professor’s defamation cas...

Trump has now wielded the First Amendment eraser on his presidential pen to outright ban Tiktok and WeChat social media applic...

This month, Facebook announced it is the subject of an inquiry by the Irish Data Protection Commission. The commission had iss...

Upon learning that my client and I were going to be part of the first post-pandemic jury trial in San Francisco, I was nervous...

Last week we learned that California Proposition 16 is behind in the polls, with 47% of likely voters inclined to vote no on t...

Numerous state and federal legislative efforts have been launched to provide relief to businesses through their insurance port...

I congratulate the 100 deserving attorneys recognized in the Sept. 16, 2020 supplement to the Daily Journal. I was sorry to se...

As a certified appellate specialist attorney, I’ve argued more than 30 appeals, including (now) arguing remotely by video. The...

On Oct. 5, the Los Angeles County Superior Court will resume jury trials in some civil matters.

Fintiv sets forth six factors for the PTAB to consider when determining whether to exercise its discretion under 35 U.S.C. Sec...

Will they remember Merrick Garland?

Presidential elections are always prime battlegrounds for partisan clashes on voting rules. This year, however, a global pand...

A bite of an apple leads to a lawsuit.

It is always worth considering appealing from a decision of the hearing department of the State Bar Court.

AB 2257 provides that the exemptions to AB 5 should be reviewed under the Borello worker classification standard, instead of D...

I previously commented that NFL fans were hypocritical in claiming to be offended by Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling which they be...

Attorney General Bill Barr encouraged federal prosecutors on a nationwide conference call this month to charge protesters with...

A group of scientists and veterans sued the DEA back in May, arguing that the DEA’s legal basis for keeping marijuana classifi...

Armando Herman appealed from a workplace violence restraining order imposed on him under Code of Civil Procedure Section 527.8...

Last week, the 9th Circuit adopted a new burden-shifting framework for summary adjudication of architectural barriers claims b...

Mallika speaks to a critical race theorist and feminist legal scholar about challenging homogeneity of the profession and acad...

Veteran practitioners will remember a time when getting a case to trial before the expiration of the five-year statute was a f...