Diane Cafferata is back with more tips on ensuring you have strong motion practice.

In non-bankruptcy civil cases, Congress has not told Article III federal judges what to do. In bankruptcy cases, Congress cert...

As the U.S. Supreme Court formally convened on the proverbial first Monday in October, and the justices settled in to hear ora...

When is a bank liable for accepting funds in a wire fraud scheme?

With all the devastation wrought on homeowners in recent weeks by the California wildfires, there has been much attention paid...

Several new harassment laws signed by Gov. Jerry Brown this October may not go into effect until Jan. 1, 2019 or later, but th...

In the courtroom lawyers are advocates who rarely are both sides of an issue. Mediators are different — we have to be able to ...

Tax opinions were always important. And with the massive tax bill that was passed almost a year ago, the situations in which t...

Many civilian lawyers in California join the California State Military Reserve to serve and support the people of California.

Tips on how to ask your clients to pay their bills.

While most understand that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 has had a major impact on tax rates and deductions, it is importa...

The who, what, when, where, why and how of deciding to leave your law firm.

Was Senate Bill 901 the answer or do questions remain?

Architects seem to hold a special place in our hearts. They’re the good guys. And in California, they even get special protect...

If you are holding bitcoin or other crypto, you may well not want to sell until the market recoveries. But if you owe taxes, h...

The threat of the disclosure of personal data is ever-present in today’s society, as seemingly every week there is another rep...

Way too often, I see otherwise excellent lawyers squander their time, their client’s money, and most importantly, the credibil...

Rather than strain to explain how the no-free-lunch maxim applies to appellate practice or the law generally, let’s just accep...

Putting pen to paper, because of the individual exertion, has persisted. I might be imagining it, yet I believe I am more thou...

Although traditionally directors have seen a high threshold for liability, it has been eroded both at the trial court level an...

In a state replete with regulation, California adopted two new laws aimed squarely at combating human trafficking.

Former California Supreme Court law clerk Christopher Hu suggests California could benefit from a “specialized high court bar,...

Could last summer’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME, forbidding states from allowing unions to garnish wages of nonmember employee...

This, my last column for the year, leans toward the sentimental, but I hope not the maudlin.

The Nov. 21 headline story on bail reform contained the following statement: “They’ve [billion dollar private equity firms] sh...

Students and parents alike often rely on their university or college to provide services to enhance student safety and create ...

The year isn’t over yet. But in early 2019, when you sit down alone or with your accountant, is the $10,000 deduction cap with...

Is this one area where Washington, D.C. is actually worthy of emulation?

I agree with Howard Miller on one point: The bar exam is to test minimum competence to practice law. I disagree with everythin...

Taken as a whole, these laws continue a significant trend toward increasing the expectations on local governments to make prog...