The legal community has seen the emergence of a new law firm structure – virtual or distributed law firms – which allows lawy...

LA County’s talc litigation represents a colossal waste of taxpayer-funded time as public lawyers collaborate with private pla...

It is common for attorneys on boards to serve only in their capacity as board members. However, lawyers may feel tempted, ofte...

Today, the State Bar is likely to treat complaints about money, including bank reports of bounced checks, as worthy of a full ...

Legal work is very much a team sport these days, and optimally serving clients in complex matters almost always requires a tea...

Practitioners may wish to consider if the relation back doctrine applies to PAGA claims. The court in Hutcheson v. Superior Co...

How Trump’s fraud case could be an invasion of freedom of contract and a threat to market transactions

“Sell” your case in the brief and impress the mediator with your grasp of the facts and law. Do not rehash obvious legal princ...

Women’s collegiate sports are more popular than ever. A recent volleyball match’s attendance even broke a world record for int...

Chief Justice John Roberts was more insightful than he probably realized when, in 2011, he said that “at the end of the day, n...

Two cases pending before the Supreme Court are not examples of government infringing on free speech, and to rule otherwise cou...

California courts define sporting activities broadly. You name it; if it’s an activity that requires even a minor amount of ex...

The credit’s popularity unwittingly resulted in an uptick of ERC scamming companies that persistently misinform taxpayers of t...

A recent judicial opinion provides sobering guidance.

Although The Hague Convention is not a topic we deal with every day, the core values of the Convention are topics that we deal...

In the summer of 2019, I wanted to go beyond fiction and write a play where – through actors – I could more fully humanize the...

Human mediators have their own personal life experiences and in almost all cases, a successful outcome hinges on the parties f...

In Jarkesy, with oral argument scheduled for Nov. 29, the Justices will consider the legality of SEC administrative hea...

As online shopping continues to surge, nonparty e-commerce platforms can be held liable for helping merchants sell and adverti...

Due to the significance of the Second and Ninth Circuits in copyright litigation, the existing split has raised concerns about...

While e-discovery mediation can take many different forms depending on the scale and complexity of the discovery dispute, ther...

True, China exports chemical precursors to the United States. And true, that exportation can complicate and even exacerbate th...

Practitioners should keep an eye on the case because it has the potential to make it easier for so-called “innocent owners” to...

Employers may see the trade-off as an opportunity to trim budgets by eliminating jobs that can be done faster and cheaper by A...

Civilian structures lose their protected status under international law when they are used for military functions. Secretary o...

Chino Valley Unified School District’s policy and other similar ones target transgender and nonbinary students, in violation o...

The State Bar Board of Trustees recently approved and staff have submitted to the Supreme Court for its review several import...

Collectively, Assembly Bills 226 and 389 represent a substantial legislative response to the shortcomings of the UC and CSU Sy...

With the recent broadening of the joint employer definition, employers can now be liable for employees, even if they don’t dir...