SB 954 appears to be driven by our Legislature’s desire to offer consumer protection to clients who choose to settle their dis...

Effective Jan. 1, 2019, AB 2084 adds Section 8050 to the Business and Professions Code to limit the business practices of lic...

Evidence of confusion and tarnishment often tip the balance.

Earn MCLE credit reviewing a recent Supreme Court case dealing with a conflict waiver that didn't quite get the job done.

Many California lawyers may not be aware of the Malpractice Insurance Working Group or what it’s currently studying.

Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 3249, the State Bar bill. The bill amends over 100 various statutory provisio...

Given the requirement to promptly refund unearned advance fees, once the disputed funds are identified and segregated, lawyers...

We have a seasoned prosecutor cross-examining a victim of a violent crime for the whole country to see. Yet, the cross-examina...

Dive into some California Supreme Court statistics to examine how the retirement Justice Kathryn M. Werdgar— which has led to ...

“Norman Mailer: The Sixties: A Library of America Boxed Set” (2018) shows Mailer as really one of the inventors of what came ...

The almost absolute protection for mediation confidentiality stems from California’s Evidence Code Sections 1115-1128 enacted ...

In this column, and those to follow, I will explore these issues, along with interviews of LGBT judges, corporate in-house co...

Every witness could be lying, or not, to tell the truth.

This term, the Supreme Court is poised, again, to issue decisions on the enforceability of arbitration agreements.

This term, the Supreme Court has an opportunity to protect more Americans from discrimination based on sexual orientation.

A Native American prisoner case up for U.S. Supreme Court review could create jurisdictional shifts in eastern Oklahoma -- or ...

In a case of first impression, a California Court of Appeal recently held that only trustees and beneficiaries under a current...

Several bills recently signed by Gov. Jerry Brown will affect California contractors.

If Kavanaugh is confirmed, his jurisprudence will give enterprising litigants a strong incentive to bring more challenges to a...

When both federal and state law criminalize the same conduct, the defendant can be independently prosecuted under each. That m...

The problem that I have with the concept of federalism is the tendency of some of its fans to enlist it in analyzing regulator...

A case involving a gruesome injury on Mammoth Mountain gives the state high court a chance to clear up the issue.

On Oct. 3, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a case that could overturn precedent that has long been criticize...

Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 2876, which codifies existing case law concerning the warrantless re...

In July of this year, the Internal Revenue Service finalized its partnership audit rules, and this week Gov. Jerry Brown signe...

The 9th Circuit has ruled that the class action appeal deadline can be extended by “equitable factors,” but will its decision ...

A First Amendment case on the Supreme Court’s docket this term presents a more conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court an oppo...

For more than a decade, Supreme Court advocates with polarizing cases designed their arguments to appeal to one man above all:...

In the past generation, students on the whole have displayed a profound change. Time was, the average student indicated that s...

Walking into the inner sanctum of a judge’s chambers, I immediately felt a sense of awe. Sure it was filled with lots of diplo...