My first piece of advice is to immerse yourself in law school with the courses that are most relevant to forming, financing, s...

The onset of COVID-19 flu has prompted physicians, researchers and health care practitioners to scramble to come up with treat...

Amidst all the chaos and concern, it can be easy to lose sight of some basic tax rules.

Last month the U.S. Supreme court ruled that the 6th Amendment requires a unanimous verdict in serious criminal cases; on Mond...

Take advantage of this quiet time as a point of self-reflection. If you have a lull in your practice, take advantage of all of...

It is still early in the post-COVID-19 credit cycle, but the pandemic is already working its way into credit documents, and ma...

Despite the apparent clarity and simplicity of the insuring agreement, insurance companies have typically denied forgery claim...

Part I of this series (in Tuesday’s Daily Journal) discussed possible defenses to a commercial landlord’s claim for unpaid ren...

The COVID-19 pandemic gives new meaning to the phrase “living the dream.” Like millions, I find myself ruminating, so for want...

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...