Mergers & Acquisitions, Law Practice, Law Office Management, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Is your firm considering a merger?
By J. Randolph Evans, Shari L. Klevens
Whether a merger is appropriate for a firm depends on many factors.
In an interesting twist reflecting a sign of the times, but Army and Marine Corps top brass testified earlier this month befor...
U.S. Supreme Court
High court to hear enhanced patent damages arguments
By Blaine H. Evanson
The court's decision could have a significant impact on the way patent claims are litigated. By Blaine Evanson and Taylor W. K...
U.S. Supreme Court, Judges and Judiciary
The coming fight to replace Scalia
By Eric B. Kingsley
News of Scalia's death had barely sunk in before Sentate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell began politicizing it. ...
I come to praise Justice Antonin Scalia, not to bury him. By Dana M. Cole ...
This past weekend, we lost a great justice, American and individual. Scalia applied his approach to the law in a principled ri...
Unsurprisingly, the intense political fight over Justice Antonin Scalia's successor began within hours of his death. ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Scalia's passing may change the ADR landscape
By Steven H. Kruis
The Supreme Court justice's recent and unexpected death may change the alternative dispute resolution landscape, at least as t...
A Supreme Court decision last month and several cases still on the court's docket could have a big impact on class action liti...
Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye is a logical choice to replace Scalia
By Terry B. Friedman
Our nation should not suffer a deadlocked, eight-member Supreme Court unable to resolve major cases for a year or more. Obama ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Court of Appeal decision highlights exceptions to five-year statute
By Steven H. Kruis
Trial counsel are well aware of the five-year statute within which to bring a case to trial after the complaint is filed. By S...
Businesses are bracing for a new rule from the Obama Administration that would require companies to report employee pay data b...
California Supreme Court
A stunning about-face from the state Supreme Court
By Michael B. Salerno
On Jan. 4, the California Supreme Court decided its most significant separation of power case in decades. By Michael B. Salern...
Experienced counsel, understanding the risks of litigation and benefits of resolution, come to the mediation fully prepared wi...
Attorney solicitations tell the client what to do, but does the attorney know what to do? By Howard Smith ...
The California Supreme Court is currently reviewing several cases involving the state's anti-SLAPP statute, Code of Civil Proc...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
The Final Word: the state high court on attorney conduct
By Joseph M. Lipner
In recent months, our state Supreme Court has resolved controversial cases that bear directly on the conduct of lawyers. By Jo...
Like love, being the Los Angeles County jail means "never having to say you are sorry." By Robert L. Bastian Jr. ...
Labor/Employment
Productions facing wave of wage and hour actions
By Kirstin E. Muller
Nothing is worse than a bad sequel. Unfortunately for the entertainment industry, productions in New York City have become the...
As the number of residential "short sales" skyrocketed as an alternative to foreclosure, California enacted legislation in 201...
Only two years after doing so in the context of patent cases, Supreme Court will address the correct standard for awarding att...
On Jan. 28, the California Public Utilities Commission voted in favor of a net metering successor tariff for customers of Cali...
Today in California, there are more than 300 prisoners serving life without parole sentences as well as more than 6,000 with l...
U.S. Supreme Court, Criminal, Constitutional Law
What juvenile LWOP ban really means
By Cyn Yamashiro
Montgomery should be interpreted for what it is - an acknowledgment that juveniles are different from adults and that those di...
Although it would be easy to place all of the blame on SoCal Gas, the story and context are a bit more nuanced. By Sarah Duffy...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
Eyebrows raise with 'take care' question
By Charles S. Doskow
The Supreme Court threw in a zinger in a new case, asking whether President Obama's actions on immigration violate the take ca...
Criminal
Courts start off new year by affirming death sentences
By Lawrence Waddington
For the families, friends and relatives of the 13 innocent people murdered in the Wichita Massacre, a sentence of life in pris...
In the recent Trump Entertainment Resorts case, the 3rd Circuit addressed two potentially conflicting provisions of fed...
California's lack of "affordable" housing has been the focus of a flurry of policy proposals aimed at increasing the stock of ...
Perspective
Act unjustly deprives uninsured motorists of damage recovery
By Christopher Dolan
In the 1990s, California voters were duped into dismantling the rights of innocent people injured by the fault of another. By ...