Wendy Patrick of the San Diego District Attorney's Office advises those lawyers who do not see a problem mixing business and p...

Money for student organizations at a public university is provided by the state or by the students. Such funds should not be u...

Subjecting the U.S. health care system to the free market would drive down costs, says James Gray of ADR Services. ...

While mediation has evolved greatly over the years, the goal has remained the same - helping parties settle without resorting ...

James Gray proposes specific changes to our systems of criminal justice, health care, education and immigration, the source of...

Problematic lawyers are often well known to the bench and bar. Wendy Patrick of the San Diego District Attorney's Office discu...

Jan Frankel Schau of ADR Services Inc learned the hard way that mediators may be compelled to testify in federal court actions...

It's tragic and ridiculous that Pierce O'Donnell should go to jail or lose his law license over a small contribution to a fail...

The 9th Circuit, for the first time, weighs in on a major issue of CERCLA law that has divided federal courts around the nation.

After opening a law firm as a newly admitted attorney, Timothy Tosta of Luce Forward learned some lessons about dealing with c...

The state Supreme Court is set to review a case that seems to favor an attorney's personal freedom of speech over ethical cons...

Errors and omissions coverage is a real necessity for the careful neutral. ...

While teaching in the community college outreach program for prison inmates, Joseph Cooper of Quinnipiac University met the mo...

Effective advocacy should include the critical component of civility, writes Wendy Patrick of the San Diego District Attorney'...

John Stephens and Kanika Corley of Sedgwick Detert explore the issue of net neutrality and discuss arguments for and against I...

In Berguis v. Thompkins, the Supreme Court has taken a major step to lessening the Constitution's protection against se...

For those advocating on behalf of the individual against the might of the government, there is now another hurdle to overcome....

Examining the duty to disclose all information "material" to the Patent Office for their decision regarding whether to issue a...

Obtaining an appellate bond or depositing cash to stay execution of judgment isn't as simple as it sounds, write James Martin ...

Kent Wisner examines the Obama administration's agenda to reform U.S. tax laws that apply to international business. ...

Jay Kasner and Peter Morrison of Skadden provide an overview of securities litigation cases decided by courts in the 9th Circu...

The anti-SLAPP statute has become a huge factor in litigation over the past 15 years and its applicability continues to be deb...

Since the underlying concept behind mediation is the voluntary nature of the process, how does one enforce the settlement agre...

Jennifer Bush of Fenwick & West says a pilot program for patent prosecution has expanded into a full-fledged system of pat...

A lawyer's right to run against a judge is not the equivalent of an entitlement to do so. ...

Marco Turk asks whether the confidential sanctity of settlement negotiations includes settlement "tactics."

Judge Lawrence Waddington (Ret.) concludes his discussion on arbitration's legislative and legal developments as an alternativ...

Despite best efforts, sometimes the courts just get it wrong.