Last month’s column ended with an aphorism from Honest Abe about catching flies with honey. (But who wants to catch flies anyw...

Public Defenders are committed to the cause of justice for their clients. They fight vigorously to defend them. They work lon...

While the Court of Appeal’s decision is relatively straightforward it seems that its decision was grounded primarily on how th...

The time for recognition of a parent-child privilege has come.

Consider to what extent an incident, a moment in our past, is significant within the endless chain of what we think is cause a...

In a recent decision the California Supreme Court established a framework for determining when public school employees are eli...

Lawyers sometimes think, “The judge was wrong. That evidence was not admissible. So I’ll win the appeal. All I need to do is w...

What specific trade secrets were stolen, and why should they be given any protection? These seem to be fair questions to ask a...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in the appeal of the criminal convictions related to the so-called “Bridg...

At least nine bills have been introduced seeking exemptions from AB 5, including for small businesses, newspaper deliverers, f...

Party politics aside and irrespective of whether a Republican or Democrat occupies the White House, let's look at what some of...

Understanding how the world got to its present state in terms of climate change requires looking at some basic tenets.

The uncertain impact of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act upon prenuptial agreements provides more cause to shy away...

Comedy and law don’t seem compatible. “The law,” after all, is serious and sober, the cases themselves often complicated and,...

The EPA has adopted new final regulations to redefine the term “waters of the United States.”

Americans, especially Californians, celebrate meritocracy, the idea that what what we do matters more than where we are from. ...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a petition for writ of certiorari to review a decision on the constitutiona...

In Civil Procedure, I assign students to visit court, watch any civil dispute, and write up their observations, because the co...

At the end of each year, for the past seven years, I have counted the number and type of motions that were decided in Departme...

The plaintiffs should have the opportunity to argue this “discoverable and manageable” benchmark at trial.

While heated debate continues over whether the new law will help tackle the state's affordability crisis, every owner and deve...

I hate word games. One that has haunted the land use field for years is the use (or abuse) of the word “dedication.” Land use ...

Rent control may well limit rent increases on current occupied units and enable existing tenants to remain in their units long...

2019 was notable for the number of white-collar criminal matters that broke into the public consciousness, whether it was the ...

In an ongoing effort to increase cooperation and meet the changing face of litigation, members of the California Legislature h...

California’s environmentalists and renewable energy advocates have been working passionately, but mostly separately, for many ...

In my 35 years as writ attorney for Division 7 of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, I saw a range of writ petitions, from outs...

In this article and accompanying self-study test, readers will learn about the procedures for conducting discovery in eminent ...

In the almost two decades since 9/11, our nation has slowly started to restore the balance among the three branches of governm...

Workplace investigations are a fact of life for employers everywhere, but especially in California. Requirements that particip...