The sustained automation of low- and middle-income wage jobs has given rise to a tension between the regulation of employment ...

I write in response to the article by the Judge William F. Highberger concerning arbitration. ...

In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control announced the eradication of measles. But a decade later and a half later, measles ca...

I despise the aphorism, "There is more than one way to skin a cat," but it is my opening to discuss the au courant practice of...

The criminal defense attorney best known for his work on behalf of the notorious.

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A recent decision represents a minority approach to a common pleading defect but, should this approach become common practice,...

The expansion of the law shows a continued legislative policy to close any loops that may have enabled construction to proceed...

Having consented to a settlement, a settling party who later develops buyer's remorse cannot simply back out of the agreement....

When can a default judgment be vacated for claimed lack of service of the summons and complaint? By Daniel Brenner ...

These days, being a partner in a law firm may not mean what it used to mean. Specifically, in law firms, at least, being named...

Since at least the 1940s, companies have monitored telephone calls between their customers and customer-service employees. So ...

The constant judicial struggle to resolve individual freedom and public safety continues endlessly in state and federal courts...

While 2014 started off with a bang for private equity, deal activity slowed after the first quarter as investors got spooked b...

Net neutrality is to the millennial online community what rock 'n' roll was to the young in the 1960s: it has changed the worl...

Because courts must enforce arbitration agreements, with or without express class action waivers, in an almost infinite variet...

In the second of a two-part series on notable appellate cases from 2014 affecting lawyers, we look at the statute of limitatio...

In a rare split decision by the 4th District Court of Appeal, Division 3, the court delved into an area of civil procedure tha...

Despite the attention paid to the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Teva v. Sandoz, there's an argument that it w...

In 2014, California courts once again issued several significant decisions on insurance-related issues. Three stand out for re...

2014 saw lawyers as litigants in several appellate cases with far-reaching implications. By Kenneth C. Feldman and Alex A. Gra...

After a long and sordid history of racial discrimination in the state, California emerged as a leader in state and judicial ac...

On Jan. 12, the 2nd District Court of Appeal addressed a "first impression case." While the facts were related to medical mal...

On Jan. 9, the U.S. Supreme Court invited the views of the solicitor general on whether to hear the Oracle v. Google copyright...

While convicted Californians are guaranteed assistance of counsel in an appeal, a civil litigant must fend for him or herself ...

Although we causally use words like "cause" and "provoke" in everyday conversation, their precise criminal law meanings can of...

Tribal sovereign immunity has confounded and frustrated many a lawyer and jurist. It has gotten so bad that in one case, four ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will decide whether laches will remain a defense to patent infringement, and...

Even in the best of times, the Board of Trustees of the State Bar faces a yeoman's task in complying with statutorily mandated...

The case that may be of greatest significance to litigation in the federal courts on the U.S. Supreme Court's January 2015 arg...