Insurance, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Tips for minimizing your firm's malpractice exposure
By J. Randolph Evans, Shari L. Klevens
In difficult economic times, current and former clients often look to attorneys — who they often perceive as "deep pockets" — ...
Government, Constitutional Law, Administrative/Regulatory
Panel set to weigh challenge to net neutrality rule changes
By Lee Rowland
This past September, the ACLU did something unusual, filing a legal brief taking the federal government's side in a First Amen...
Perspective
Tort case could impact interstate cooperation in enforcing tax laws
By Lila Disque
On Dec. 7, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt. On its face, Hyatt
A dispute involving an online media publisher has prompted to state Legislature and Gov. Brown to revise California's libel to...
Perspective
High court ERISA case has potential to limit health service research
By Carmel Shachar
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case on whether states can require all health insurers, including employers w...
U.S. Supreme Court
Federal government's approach to criminal expungement is draconian
By Eamon P. Joyce
At its Dec. 4 conference, the Supreme Court could decide whether to grant review of Mann v. United States, which presen...
Family, California Courts of Appeal
Ruling dishes on Family Code fee awards
By Claudia Ribet
A recent appellate ruling wrestled with whether a trial court must differentiate between fee awards under the cost-shifting pr...
The Justice Department has an opportunity to restore faith in our government's ability to controle those it is charged with ma...
National settlement and clearing systems rely on regulatory consistency and stability to cheaply and efficiently settle millio...
U.S. Supreme Court
Justices ask whether federal-tribal relations should affect claim timeliness rules
By Melody Mccoy
A fight over tribal contract health care costs may seem incongruous in the larger scheme of things. But it is the larger schem...
U.S. Supreme Court
Justices to consider key provision of Federal Tort Claims Act
By Paul Figley
The U.S. Supreme Court has granted certiorari in a case which will decide whether a final judgment in a Federal Tort Claims Ac...
Immigration
Deferred action is constitutional and essential for immigrant families
By Sharon Hing
On Nov. 9, a 5th Circuit panel placed another roadblock in the way of President Barack Obama's ability to implement his latest...
Perspective
Employment discrimination case illustrates importance of sensible deadlines
By John Paul Schnapper-Casteras
On Nov. 30, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that will decide when federal employees in a workplace discri...
Over 8 million Americans live and have bank accounts abroad. Many receive letters from their banks requesting U.S. tax ID numb...
Chaucer's proverb "better late than never" may provide a constructive maxim for human behavior, but it doesn't apply to an ins...
Thanksgiving is a time for reflection; it might be useful to spend some time this year reflecting on the history and role of l...
Perspective
Do registration requirements apply to sex offenders who move abroad?
By Paul J. Wallin
The Supreme Court will consider if a sex offender's move overseas violates the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act,...
There is no question that there is a law school debt crisis, but it can't be solved by pointing fingers and denegrating anyone...
Letters, Judges and Judiciary
Diversity discussion must include the disabled
By Peter A. Lynch
The failure to include the disabled in diversity studies provides an incomplete analaysis of law firm practices and perpetuate...
Courts generally summarily dispose of fraud and collusion defense when a neutral trial of fact is in play. By David B. Ezra ...
Intellectual Property
Who owns rights to art when a manager-artist relationship ends?
By Eugene Rome
When not properly addressed from the outset, a dissolution between manager and artist can lead to a costly legal fight and unc...
Two Supreme Court decisions have made it tremendously difficult for tribes to uphold the law on their land, but in a case bein...
Airbnb, launched in 2008 to connect people with space to those who want to rent it, means renters and landlords galore, which ...
Military Law, Civil Litigation, Law Practice
Litigating with service members
By Mark E. Sullivan
Courts from time to time encounter parties to a lawsuit who are on active duty in the armed forces.
Thanks to 3-D printing and other innovations, electronic data is a growing problem for owners of patents covering material goo...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
'Adaptive management' questions crucially important to environmental law
By Dave Owen
While the 9th Circuit's Alaska Wilderness League seems like a potential blockbuster, involving the oil industry and maj...
Labor/Employment
9th Circuit should protect workers' access to justice
By Glenn Rothner
Three cases at the 9th Circuit examine whether federal labor law protects the right of employees to pursue class actions for w...
Although the prospect of jury service was daunting, it was the most rewarding and educational month I've spent as an attorney....
To be successful, a mediation should start long before the formal gathering of the parties. By Louis M. Marlin ...
Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports
When is a car more than a car, Batman?
By Stephen M. Doniger
If Bruce Wayne tried to buy a replica Batmobile, he might just hear the SLAP! of a lawsuit for copyright infringment.