This October the Supreme Court will consider the permissibility of cy pres-only class action settlements.

The baby shoe has dropped. Just when you started to wonder what could possibly happen next, the National Enquirer has given th...

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The issue of judicial elections is again become a subject of debate.

In what is, apparently, the first widely disseminated ruling, one court has already answered this question with a resounding “...

A Court of Appeal ruling muddles law concerning the applicable causation standard when a lawyer is sued for fraud or intention...

If you lose a trial or dispositive ruling, your first instinct may be to file a post-trial motion. But if you don’t need to pr...

The California Supreme Court's Hassell v. Bird ruling suggests courts will see through litigation tactics that attempt to avoi...

Steve Coll’s “Directorate S” concentrates on Pakistan’s pivotal, indeed indispensable roles in our battles with Mideast terror...

One of the first lessons political science students are taught is that the first job of every elected official is to stay in ...

The principle that a person is innocent until proven guilty is commonly overstated.

Effective Jan. 1, 2019, Senate Bill 766 amends the California International Arbitration statute with new rules for California ...

Parties that find themselves involved in the purchase of property that is either wholly, or partially, owned by an entity in b...

With the school year set to begin in California, parents, educators and landlords should be aware of the unique problems cause...

New warning signs must be posted on buildings, or property owners could face lawsuits or penalties

As soon as something goes wrong in a representation, the first instinct for many attorneys may be to turn to colleagues for ad...

As you might expect with any government agency, failing to cooperate voluntarily with the IRS can have consequences.

Since the last effort in 2000, there has been little public discourse about the need to put a constitutional amendment on the ...

Racing to get ahead of a looming consumer privacy ballot initiative in November, the California Legislature has enacted a new ...

With the academic year underway, first-year law school students need to be aware of the "seven deadly sins," critical missteps...

Earlier this month, the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations on additional first-year depreciation deductions,...

There are 677 district court judgeships nationwide. As of Monday, 126 were vacant with only 73 nominees pending. Many are judi...

True or false: The U.S. Supreme Court gives more respect to its precedents interpreting the U.S. Constitution than to other pr...

An appellate court weighs in on a settlement agreement included a confidentiality clause stating the parties and counsel would...

Starring ace trial lawyer Flash Feinberg and his trusty sidekick Professor Plato

As UCI’s law school celebrates its 10th anniversary, ranked 21st among all the nation’s law schools, reviewing those early com...

Even if Monsanto were to pay the verdict, new tax rules will be as effective as Roundup in swallowing up most of the big verd...

One of the most important but frequently misunderstood issues in contract drafting is whether the material terms are sufficien...

Consider a common dilemma arising in divorce cases, particularly in places like Silicon Valley or Silicon Beach that are laden...

The headline the Daily Journal chose for a recent story feeds into the hysteria being generated and exploited by the Trump adm...