The coronavirus pandemic has pretty much closed our trial courts to civil cases. But our appellate courts are still humming al...

Just as every dog has his day, every litigant — best in show, purebred, cur, or junkyard biter — can always exercise that righ...

9th Circuit invalidates its own model intent-to-defraud jury instruction in new ruling.

In the context of the numerous lawsuits have recently filed by policyholders seeking compensation for lost business income occ...

No intended obscenity in this column. So why the title? Because like so many other concepts based on beliefs or values, obscen...

As employers contemplate re-opening businesses and returning employees to work, they face a number of litigation risks from th...

Every year roughly 24,000 students graduate from ABA-accredited law schools and begin the arduous and time-intensive preparati...

The pandemic is not a get-out-of-jail-free card that will liberate parties from contracts across the board. But these unusual ...

As the political debate continues about whether to reopen the economy or maintain “stay at home” policies, many employers are ...

Externships provide second- and third-year law students the opportunity to put their education into practice.

Most lawyers are living under an unusual form of house arrest, spending our days at home except for brief, masked forays on ur...

Here we go again. Three years ago, a few law schools pushed to lower the pass score for the California bar exam. I wrote then ...

Undoubtedly you did not purchase this newspaper to read this article. By the time it is in print it shall be marginally out-of...

In this COVID-19 environment, elders are especially vulnerable to financial abuse due to the inherent nature of the shelter-in...

The new normal has arrived and will dominate how we as arbitrators and arbitration professionals participate in and conduct he...

Over 95% of the U.S. population is currently under stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders. Millions of workers have been laid...

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and. Economic Security Act was passed after some marathon sessions in Congress to provide some ne...

It used to be a standing joke in the land use community that the only thing that land use planners hated more than sprawl was ...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal created a bright-line rule that a physician assistant acts within the scope of his or her lic...

The California Supreme Court unanimously held that “sophisticated business entities” that are contracted for arbitration under...

With the virus raging through Kentucky as well as the nation, Judge Caldwell was presented with a challenge unlike any other f...

The main effect of the means test is that it has increased the amount attorneys charge consumer filers since the form requires...

I have a recurring experience that a few others might share as well. As a lawyer who happens to belong to a minority community...

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court dodged what could have been its pièce de résistance in a trilogy of 2nd Amendment “keep and ...

There is a growing movement to eliminate the right of a landlord to impose a complete restriction on residential tenants havin...

With the coronavirus wreaking havoc on the economy, the issue of zombie foreclosure will resurface. This article will explain...

The Trump administration is intent on rolling back those promises. On March 30, NHTSA and EPA released their “final” version o...

This new virtual reality has brought privacy and security risks into focus. In response to regulators issuing recent warnings...

This article addresses key flexibilities in government contracting. An agile procurement system is critical to addressing new ...

One burning question among California employer lawyers these days is whether, with its recent decision in Frlekin v. Apple (th...