California's failed Court Case Management System reflected poor management rather than a flawed goal, and the state continues ...

California's new child-safety laws create new avenues for holding social media and AI companies liable, but their effectivenes...

The Supreme Court's East Wing ruling casts doubt on decades of precedent recognizing aesthetic injury as sufficient for standi...

This second annual back-to-school quiz tests California attorneys' knowledge of hearsay and other evidence rules through 10 pr...

Choosing the right mediator is a lot like choosing the right dog: Attorneys should look beyond pedigree to find the temperamen...

Courts weighing whether to restrict a parent's social media activity during a custody dispute must balance the child's best in...

The Pandora litigation shows how comedians are challenging traditional copyright models as streaming and AI create new opportu...

From fraudulent transfers and strategic bankruptcies to hidden assets and sham entities, family law attorneys need actionable ...

Garbage-truck collisions are falling, but those dying are still overwhelmingly outside the cab, caught in routine backing and ...

"Billboard lawyers" is just the latest insult aimed at the plaintiffs' bar, following decades of others -- from "tasseled loaf...

The First District's ruling that San Francisco's Empty Homes Tax is preempted by the Ellis Act reinforces an owner's right to ...

Proposition 45's plain language, and millions of dollars in donations from data center developers, show that the measure will ...

When a celebrity divorce turns into a fight over posting the kids online, who decides--and who gets paid?

As courts crack down on AI misuse, lawyers must do more than verify their work. Here are four additional steps firms can take ...

As courts abandon the grace period for AI mistakes, lawyers face sanctions, new disclosure rules and a growing duty to verify ...

Forty years after the Aeromexico Flight 498 disaster, its litigation and legacy show how an avoidable tragedy reshaped aviatio...

AI startups' reliance on third-party technology and increasingly valuable data can complicate bankruptcy, raising questions ab...

As AI evolves, the meaningful question is not whether AI will touch judicial work but whether it will do so thoughtfully or ha...

California's SB 73 carefully balances election security and local authority, providing a strong constitutional defense against...

Planning ahead can help counsel navigate deposition rules, prepare witnesses appropriately, and avoid ethical missteps with co...

A litigant hid instructions in his court filing telling any artificial intelligence that read it to rule in his favor. He hid ...

IRS Forms 1099 are easy to ignore until tax time but overlooking them--or assuming they determine taxability--can trigger cost...

The My Lai Massacre shows how failures in command, training and accountability can lead to atrocity--and why clear legal stand...

As courts grapple with reverse warrants for digital data, they must decide whether longstanding Fourth Amendment rules should ...

A family lawyer's eight-month delay in invoking a client's right to have one judge hear bifurcated issues turned a routine cal...

Kevin Reddington didn't get Lindsay Clancy acquitted. But in a triple-murder case that looked indefensible, he got 11 of 12 ju...

Justice Cruz Reynoso's Army service during the McCarthy era shaped his lifelong commitment to civil rights, teaching him the d...

The 4th Circuit's decision provides a useful, defense-oriented roadmap for resisting environmental injunctions premised on all...

Seven ways counsel can test conviction before mediation so confidence remains useful when it meets a skeptical room.

The 9th Circuit's Ding decision clarifies when later-discovered sexual harassment claims can shift a case from arbitrat...