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Appellate Practice

The strongest trial outcomes are built with an appeal in mind; early coordination with appellate counsel is essential to prese...


The article analyzes Wilson Huhn's framework of legal reasoning in "The Five Types of Legal Argument," explaining how TIPTAP s...


Family, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

The rise of AI-informed and data-savvy clients in family law is transforming attorney-client relationships by shifting consult...


Intellectual Property

Copyright silencing: A practitioner's framework

Apr. 24, 2026
By Amanda Harris

A copyright lawsuit over critical YouTube videos has been cited as part of a growing "copyright silencing" trend, raising conc...


Family, Alternative Dispute Resolution

Divorces are costly: The case for private trials

Apr. 24, 2026
By Dianna Gould-Saltman, Michèle Bissada

Private divorce proceedings--particularly trials before privately compensated judges--can significantly reduce the monetary, l...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Critics say John Eastman was punished for "zealous advocacy," but the State Bar Court found he violated core duties of candor ...


Labor/Employment, Alternative Dispute Resolution

Keys to a successful employment law mediation

Apr. 23, 2026
By Eli M. Kantor, Jonathan D. Kantor

Effective employment law mediation requires more than meeting in the middle--it demands strategy, preparation and a discipline...


Civil Procedure

California's e-filing system can turn minor clerical or formatting errors into dispositive rejections that retroactively jeopa...


Meta's removal of end-to-end encrypted Instagram DMs raises a threshold question: whether users' expectation that their messag...


Environmental & Energy, Administrative/Regulatory

Why is CARB giving insurers a pass on climate?

Apr. 23, 2026
By Clara Vondrich

As CARB implements a first-in-the-nation climate risk disclosure framework, it is giving insurers a pass even as other compani...


As agencies adopt law enforcement technology to improve investigations, these tools also generate vast records, requiring care...


Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech

California expands nurse practitioner authority; ownership question remains

Apr. 22, 2026
By Mehdi Sinaki, Nicole Benalcazar

AB 890 expanded nurse practitioner autonomy while leaving ownership unresolved--creating tension between the statute's grant o...


A recent California appellate decision confronts a question that has quietly shaped early litigation under the California Raci...


The Justice Department is asking the D.C. Circuit to sever President Trump's executive orders targeting prominent law firms--b...


Securities

The rise of "AI-washing" securities litigation shows how courts are applying traditional defenses like puffery, scienter and s...


Consumer Protection Law, Civil Litigation

Prop. 65 has mushroomed from a modest regulatory requirement into one of the most powerful litigation tools in the world--and ...


Torts/Personal Injury, Immigration

ICE detention deaths are rising, often preventable and frequently tied to private contractors--yet California plaintiffs' atto...


Entertainment & Sports, Contracts

Using independent contractors without signed work-for-hire agreements can leave entertainment companies without exclusive copy...


Securities, Criminal

AI-washing moves from hype to liability

Apr. 21, 2026
By Ashwin J. Ram

As companies race to signal AI adoption, regulators and plaintiffs' attorneys are scrutinizing those claims more closely than ...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Part 2 of a series examines how incremental ethical lapses in legal practice can blur professional boundaries and lead to disc...


Civil Rights, Civil Litigation

Discrimination serves no legitimate military purpose

Apr. 20, 2026
By William M. Paparian

The reach of the Feres doctrine highlights the urgent need for legal reform to protect service members from discriminat...


Civil Litigation

Law games - Part 2

Apr. 20, 2026
By Myron Moskovitz

Litigation, like many complex pursuits, is a "combo game" of skill and external forces, where success depends not on outcomes ...


AI may improve judicial efficiency, but it cannot replace the inherently human judgment, reasoning and legitimacy of written j...


On May 11, 1880, one of the American West's deadliest shootouts killed seven men at Mussel Slough in a railroad-versus-settler...


Entertainment & Sports, Contracts

A wave of class actions over influencer-marketing disclosures has turned compliance with FTC endorsement standards into active...


Torts/Personal Injury

Ben & Jerry's: Defamation or brand protection?

Apr. 17, 2026
By Neama Rahmani

Mittal v. Unilever frames a threshold question: when do statements made in the ordinary course of corporate governance ...


Insurance

Insurers routinely deny policyholders the right to independent defense counsel under cyber policies, despite longstanding Cali...


Securities

Opaque loans, inflated values and a lawsuit that could crack private credit

Apr. 17, 2026
By Daniel Barenbaum, Michael Dark

Amid mounting stress in the opaque private credit market, Burnell v. BlackRock TCP Capital Corp. spotlights investor cl...


Constitutional Law, Civil Rights

The 9th Circuit correctly upheld Washington's nondiscrimination protections in Olympus Spa v. Armstrong, but the opin...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Alternative Dispute Resolution

Amid rising polarization, declining trust in shared facts, and increasing incivility, lawyers can improve mediation outcomes b...