In eight tight chapters, John Tirman's "Dream Chasers: Immigration and the American Backlash" sparks a fresh look at an issue ...
On Sept. 9, a constellation of former senior CIA officials published the book "Rebuttal" in response to a Senate report critic...
Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Who owns unfinished business?
By J. Randolph Evans, Shari L. Klevens
In mergers and firm dissolutions, who has rights to "unfinished business?"
International
The unbearable lightness of being the European Union
That some of its member states have defaulted to xenophobic politics of the past — the very thing that the EU was created to p...
Military Law, Letters
Suggesting Bergdahl has been punished enough already is premature
By Peter A. Lynch
As an Afghanistan and Iraq veteran, suggesting Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has been punished enough already is premature. ["Bowe Bergda...
Voters took a big step in reforming California's criminal justice system last November when they passed Proposition 47. But it...
On Oct. 6, the European Court of Justice struck down an agreement that allowed companies to move personal electronic date betw...
The courts should conclude that California can have a death penalty even with lengthening delays and the increased likelihood ...
Civil Rights
At Stanford University, an affair reveals accusations of discrimination
By David Streitfeld
SeaSpine Holdings Corp., a spinal hardware technology company based in Vista, announced Tuesday Patrick L. Keran will fill the...
On Oct. 9, Jerry Brown signed three bills collective known as the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act. By Aaron Lachan...
Civil Litigation
Legal malpractice should be subject to anti-SLAPP
By Timothy D. Reuben
Putting aside arguments about the anti-SLAPP statute's flaws, it is simply true that by its terms, it should apply to a case a...
A review of two recent books on mass hysteria in American history. By Barbara Kate Repa ...
What is a reasonable hourly rate for a lawyer's time? By Gerald G. Knapton ...
Military Law, Criminal
Bowe Bergdahl has been punished enough already
By William W. Bruzzo
Last year's trade of Bergdahl for five Taliban detainees set off a firestrom.
Drawing different conclusions from the same basic facts is not good for the law.
Labor/Employment
Equal pay will benefit us all, so get on board
By Arthur F. Silbergeld
The California Fair Pay Act becomes effective Jan. 1, 2016.
Seven concrete ways to improve your performance at a mediation. By Shirish Gupta ...
It is often unclear whether a court will exclude a party's experts on timeliness grounds if the party makes a belated disclosu...
Attorney-mediator Frederick Hertz reviews "Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA." ...
Timothy Sandefur of the Pacific Legal Foundation discusses Robert Scheer's "They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collectin...
Oral argument was once unquestionably necessary because briefs were exactly what their name implies: "a short abstract of the ...
Law Practice
SMICASPA, the privacy ninja, in the marketplace of ideas
By Rafael Chodos
A battle to save privacy is underway in our hyper-commercialized world. By Rafael Chodos ...
Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate
The battle of business judgment and entire fairness
By Marc Boiron
A discussion of the the Delaware Supreme Court's Corwin decision.
Law Practice, Law Office Management, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Ethically navigate law firm downsizing
By J. Randolph Evans, Shari L. Klevens
Every termination should be treated with the same level of formality to protect the law firm from any issues arising out of it...
Insurance
Insurers may want to think twice about delaying defense
By Joan Marie M. Cotkin
Trial courts fortunately are starting to confirm that a delayed defense is a breach of the duty to defend, by which the insure...
Civil Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation confidentiality, good news and bad news
By A. Marco Turk
At their Oct. 8 meeting, the California Law Revision Commission again conducted a series of votes and arrived at a number of d...
The phrase "go set a watchman" is a directive to have someone serve as the moral compass for society. It is clear that Atticus...
Assembly Bill 555 creates new rules for expedited jury trials, while Senate Bill 383 creates a new meet-and-confer requirement...
California's Fair Pay Act is a windfall to lawyers more so than a landmark law for pay equity at this point. By Steve L. Herná...
Twenty years later, what did we learn? A few things.