With climate change at our doorstep, our state leaders know we don’t have time to wait until the next drought to create a more...

Based upon a long line of California cases, a new ethics opinion acknowledges the potential dual benefits to both clients and ...

Sometimes, a lawyer might be the first responder

In a recent case of first impression, the California Supreme Court considered whether settling with a party in a multiparty to...

Assembly Bill 1270 (Stone) is an attempt to expand the False Claims Act to allow the attorney general, local prosecutors and p...

The California Supreme Court has rejected the government's attempt to require a youth probationer, as a condition of release, ...

The shore defining the boundary of indigent defendants' constitutional right to forestall or forego liability for certain asse...

States are increasingly recognizing that lives can be saved by Extreme Risk Protection laws, which enable people who exhibit ...

Are we in the midst of a similar trend in formal legal writing, relaxing the use of contractions? Are the few judicial contrac...

August — the month that many of my readers are on vacation. So why write an August column? Other columnists take off a month o...

We send them there. We break them. Then we take away their benefits.

Our country can uphold both national security and its commitment to refugee protection. Indeed, it's done exactly that for dec...

Last month, the San Francisco City Council voted to prohibit city agencies from using facial recognition software on municipal...

Currently pending before the California Supreme Court is an issue that calls into question the motivations of California offic...

Now that California has adopted its own version of ABA rule 8.4, Misconduct, it is increasingly apparent that an attorney´s of...

The California State Bar Ethics Committee recently joined the discussion regarding legal services to cannabis clients in a pro...

There may now be three justices open to moving away from substantive due process as the basis for incorporating the rights the...

In May 2015, The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board asked readers, “Could you live in L.A. on $221 a month?” The answer then, a...

Ethical lawyer advertising can be like a high-wire act.

They profoundly influence our lives. They can be found all over the world. When not fulfilling their mission, they blend in wi...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed at the end of 2017 doubled the estate and gift tax exemption. With much aplomb, it was announ...

On the morning of September 28 last year, Sen. Jeff Flake announced he would be voting to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. A few hours...

Many veterans believe that government benefits are only available if they were wounded in combat or suffer from a disability r...

You won't find a better close-up audience experience to hone your trial skills than by watching and hearing the state's very b...

For 30 years -- since Avis Ridley-Thomas founded it in 1989 -- the Dispute Resolution Program has been providing free mediatio...

Last month, the Department of Housing and Urban Development published a proposed rule which would terminate housing assistance...

I recently attended a talk by Judge Jeffrey Sutton who sits on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The subject was a book h...

Julian Assange. Bryan Carmody. Each incident is a troubling incursion on First Amendment freedoms. One is a flat-out violation...

California’s new Rules of Professional Conduct, effective Nov. 1, 2018, put new two factors at the top of the list of 13 eleme...

In the past few years, private advocacy groups that intervene to defend challenged laws have successfully sought hundreds of t...