Earn MCLE credit familiarizing yourself with the most important features of unlawful detainer law. ...
International Law, Family
California's liberal surrogacy industry attracts Asian visitors
By Evie P. Jeang
Although surrogacy, egg donation and egg freezing procedures are common here, these fertility treatments are often illegal, ta...
Entertainment & Sports
UC statement bridges sports and academic success
By Donald J. Polden
UC student-athlete policy statement shows commitment to promote academic success among its atheletes. By Donald J. Polden ...
Civil Litigation, Law Practice
Law schools need to ramp up e-discovery education
By A. Marco Turk
Most law schools fail to provide the critical technical and legal e-discovery instruction necessary to prepare their students ...
Government, Administrative/Regulatory
Is FCC trying to expand its own authority?
By Eric J. Troutman
The FCC has been systematically working to increase its own power. Brick-by-brick, ruling-by-ruling, it has chipped away at th...
A recent Supreme Court ruling reminds that the First Amendment protects not only the right to political expression, but the "r...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
School choice should encompass religious institutions
By Lance Izumi
The Supreme Court's answer to a Blaine Amendment challenge could decide the constitutional rights of 1.3 million school-choice...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Avoid ethical missteps in negotiation dance
By David M. Majchrzak, Heather L. Rosing
Although clients expect their lawyers to get the best possible deal, there are ethical constraints designed to restrict lawyer...
U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Litigation
The cat's paw doctrine: declawing summary judgment
By Nathan J. Kowalski, Irma Rodriguez Moisa
Aesop's "Cat's Paw" fable is some 2,700 years old, but its namesake, the cat's paw doctrine, was first applied by California c...
Administrative/Regulatory
Don't eliminate limitations period for climate change statements
By Kim Stone
The California Senate is considering entirely eliminating the statute of limitations for lawsuits that government prosecutors ...
U.S. Supreme Court
High court still needs to settle constitutional standing issue
By Ana Tagvoryan
While the Supreme Court in Spokeo was clear that statutory damages are not in and of themselves a substitute for cons...
Entertainment & Sports
Will 'Star Trek' fan film live long and prosper?
By Todd W. Bonder
With the crowd-funded movie still in development, the less its producers borrow from the authorized works, the more likely the...
A California-based law firm's suit against former partners for trade secret misappropriation, though thankfully not prevalent,...
Constitutional Law, Civil Rights
Have you actually read the directives on the use of restrooms by transgender students?
By Sanford Jay Rosen
The joint letter from the U.S. Justice and Education Departments regarding transgender students marks a huge leap forward in t...
The University of Arizona shouldn't be punished for experimenting with an alternative to the Law School Admissions Test. By Th...
If allowed to proceed, the Cadiz water project will supply adequate water to 400,000 Southern California individuals. By Andre...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Ethically emerging from the recession
By J. Randolph Evans, Shari L. Klevens
New technology, innovation, restructuring and a willingness to consider new solutions to old problems are attorneys' best hope...
Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Federal habeas relief gone haywire?
By Lawrence Waddington
The governor, attorney general and the state Legislature need to limit 9th Circuit interference in the outcomes of California ...
Labor/Employment
Harris v. City of Santa Monica is bad for California workers
By Thomas L. Dorogi
By increasing the requisite degree of proof required of plaintiffs, the California Supreme Court gave an advantage to employer...
Government
San Francisco is leading the way in environmentally conscious bonds
By Stephen A. Spitz
A "green bonds" designation can highlight to a municipal issuer's stakeholders that infrastructure work which needs to be done...
What some are calling a "lull" may be a signal that technology companies are expanding their patent arsenals with better quali...
Criminal
Legislature: don't eliminate the statute of limitations for rape
By Garrick Byers
When a statute of limitations is eliminated, justice evaporates for both the innocent and the victim. By Garrick Byers ...
Perspective
California faces fiscal ruin from unsustainable government pension programs
By Chuck Reed
Meaningful pension reform most likely will require an amendment to the California Constitution. By Chuck Reed ...
In the wake of the announcement of new rules regarding permissible exposure levels, lawsuits were filed in federal courts acro...
Perspective
Is the traditional approach to law school the most effective?
By Daniel Schwarcz
Law schools should systematically provide first-year law students with individualized feedback in at least one "core" doctrina...
Navigating new crowdfunding laws will be challenging for investors and companies, and each must decide if this new financing v...
SB 1253, which reduces nonviolent offenders' sentences, seems to allow the governor to dominate the lawmaking process and redu...
The Obama administration has released several policy changes recently that could aid persons returning to communities after a ...
The Judicial Council seeks comment on whether state court e-filers should have until close of business day, or midnight, to fi...
Can Congress deem someone injured? The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Spokeo Inc. v. Robins purportedly to ...