California judges presiding over civil trials often restrict jury selection in contravention of the law pertaining to this cri...

In a recent ruling, the 9th Circuit created a rule of federal common law in ERISA cases that follows California's employee-fri...

On Oct. 2, the Daily Journal ran a "Perspectives" piece titled, "Judging is hard (even for the temporary kind)," authored by a...

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Consider the recent case of a Catholic priest for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose. He was sentenced to 36 months in pri...

On Sept. 29, the SEC issued its first civil complaint against two companies and their founder for violating anti-fraud and re...

As Justice Breyer intimated, a Supreme Court decision allowing employer prohibitions on employee class actions would "overturn...

Abraham Lincoln advised attorneys: "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can." Over a cen...

Senate Bill 33 amends Code of Civil Procedure Section 1281.2 to provide an additional instance when a court can make a determi...

Wouldn't it be nice to have everything one needs to know collected in one place? Enter "Business and Commercial Litigation in...

Increased competition and sluggish demand for legal services has meant that attorneys and law firms are exploring different wa...

Assuming the pen is mightier than the sword, it is my hope that others will respond by doing something to ameliorate the pain ...

Families will always fight, and many of these disputes arise over money. This threat only increases with death, when the origi...

Sometimes a free speech issue is just a speech issue, and not a First Amendment issue. Other times, free speech issues harbor ...

Nine days after Hurricane Irma directly struck the Keys, I was witnessing what would be its worst of many days to come. Homes ...

A federal judge recently held that portions of the city of Newton, Massachusetts's ordinance attempting to regulate unmanned a...

It’s no accident that the leading advocates of increasing barriers to litigation are representatives of industries whose busin...

Contracting parties might agree to a forum selection clause for any number of reasons: to ensure favorable legal precedent, to...

Can an expert rely on hearsay case-specific facts for purposes of reaching an opinion as long as the expert does not relate th...

While some courts held that physical presence in the district is not required, others determined that it is. The Federal Circu...

At oral argument on Monday, counsel for the respondent employees confirmed that if the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the cases b...

Applicants scoring at a specified intermediate level should receive a qualified law license to represent underserved clients.

The 9th Circuit's ruling in the recent case challenging San Francisco's sugar-sweetened beverages ordinance could provide a de...

In the final installment of this two-part series, I will discuss several more of the employment-related bills that could soon ...

SB 345 would require state and local law enforcement agencies to conspicuously post online their current standards, policies,...

We’ve known for a long time that some members of the judiciary rule from emotion rather than the law, but in most instances, t...

Did you know that some shows film alternate endings, to keep spoilers from getting out? All this electronic filing has me thin...

Justice Ginsburg’s prediction of a “momentous” term may prove to be quite an understatement.

I’ve long been a fan of Richard Posner, judge (and former chief judge) of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. He...

The U.S. Supreme Court described laws that empower unions to coerce funds from non-union members as an “extraordinary state en...