Last week three women became the first ever to successfully complete the punishing U.S. Marine Corps infantry course.

Can the IRS come along and claim that a "loan" you received isn't a loan at all and was actually income? Yes, it can.

Earn MCLE credit reviewing the rules for calculating restitution for victims of crimes.

When I sat down to read Dwight Golann's "Sharing a Mediator's Powers: Effective Advocacy in Settlement," I was struggling to r...

Sometimes people simply are not who they say they are.

The state high court recently held that an insured can maintain a suit for violations of the unfair competition law based on c...

The landscape of trade secrets in China is fraught with contradictions.

As the state high court seemed to be indicating in their comments at the hearing, Glass will in all likelihood remain a parale...

When it comes to literary characters - including Sherlock Holmes - it's not so easy to detect when something enters the public...

States are divided when it comes to the greenhouse gas cases pending before the U.S. high court. ...

I recently had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion on the topic of stresses on our courts and how they may inc...

Should divorcing spouses who mediate their case have the right to opt out of procedural requirements that are an integral part...

The NSA's sweeping phone surveillance programs may have just sounded the death-knell for lawsuits brought under California's I...

The changes between 2013 and 2014 tax rates and rules - let alone the entire economy - make it rough. ...

Some mediators are unhappy that persons with minimal or no training can hold themselves out as mediators.

A Kenyan court recently sentenced several gang rapists to cut the grass at the local police station. I wish I could say this s...

Actual authority is the easy part; ostensible authority is where it gets tricky. ...

The time has come to rethink arbitration in order to retain the merits of an expeditious and inexpensive method of dispute res...

All of us in the legal profession make legal decisions. But like everyone else, we also are compelled to make moral decisions ...

What if Mom and Dad are a healthy 85 and 80, and they do not wish to wait that long to liquidate their investment? ...

Since the enactment of the FAA in 1925, the role and scope of arbitration has slowly evolved. ...

There's no reason a "good settlement" has to mean that both sides leave a little unhappy.

On Oct. 1, the SEC announced the largest whistle-blower award yet since launching its whistle-blower program in 2011.

Pressure from the U.S. government to curb corrupt business practices and China's privacy laws have created collision course, w...

There is confusion whether transactions in bitcoin should be treated as property, barter, foreign currency, or a financial ins...

In a historic groundbreaking move by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Justice, last week four Saudi women were grante...

Re: "Offsetting Damages in a Nonallocated Settlement," Oct. 21. ...

Earn MCLE credit learning the basic rules and cases that govern the use of spoken language interpreters in California courts.

A new ordinance aims to "reduc[e] family flight" from San Francisco. ...

The court is poised in Iskanian to overrule Gentry. Whether the majority can hold onto their sole long-term idea...