Often while the obligor is actively working it is relatively easy to collect the past due amount or the current support throug...

I had dinner the other evening with the philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus. I remarked that Justice Ming Chin was retiring from...

How you write a brief is hemmed in by the Rules of Court and, to a lesser extent, by custom (what judges are used to seeing). ...

Four U.S. Supreme Court cases from last term, coupled with the news that the Catholic Church received $1.4 billion in COVID-19...

Imagine that your client learns in the course of a workplace arbitration where she was awarded $500,000 that a company owner h...

Courts are already issuing conflicting decisions in litigation involving the new WOTUS regulations.

In California the judge’s Oath of Office begins, “I solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the Unit...

For three weeks in July, the main conference room at the Beverly Hills Bar Association functioned as an extension of England’s...

Here are some pointers on how to avoid putting a foot in your mouth when the judge says, “Cross-examination, please.”

The number one driver of nuclear verdicts is juror anger. The challenge for defense lawyers is to figure out how to defuse tha...

On July 8, the Supreme Court issued a blow to the ongoing fight for birth control access. The case in question involved a rule...

A former general counsel and litigator turned mediator's take on potential rude awakenings and steps to avoid them.

In his new book, “The Deviant’s War,” Eric Cervini chronicles how Kameny’s sheer determination began to chip away at homosexu...

The first test of whether corporate “federal forum selection” clauses will be enforced by California courts will occur on Frid...

In November 2018, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California adopted the Procedural Guidance for...

As private sector management rights grow, public sector employers are seeing a growing imbalance.

In order to improve access to legal services, the State Bar should promote the use of online attorney referral and matching sy...

The July 27 column, “Time to end systematic abuse of California’s lemon law,” authored by two Hyundai Motor America in-house c...

In important ways, the John Bolton and Mary Trump cases are not representative of the broader ongoing efforts of Trump and his...

In part overshadowed by fears of COVID-19, the homelessness situation in Los Angeles and beyond is far from easing up. Once t...

Religion continued its losing streak against the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. Supreme Court over the weekend, as the court re...

Those that do not comply with the state’s evolving guidance on workplace safety and health will likely be subject to citations...

Knowing when an asset or liability is community or separate property is essential, not just in a divorce but also in debtor-cr...

When implementing modern-day technology for law practices and the courts, there is an oft-used line known to insiders that com...

The rule restricts the ability of banking entities to engage in proprietary trading or to have certain interests in, or relati...

A PIPE, or private investment in public equity, is a private placement transaction executed in accordance with the Section 4(a...

Another wave of change is coming. We think of it as analogous to the aftershocks of an earthquake: They happen after the big e...

The fact that the Department of Justice is used to carry out the president’s broad policy preferences is neither surprising no...

For those who have either forgotten or don’t keep up with takings law, Kelo v. New London was the bombshell case in which a 5-...

In the midst of the current global pandemic, California’s state courts have been severely impacted. Now, more than ever, it is...