The most effective lawyers at cross-examination ask only questions calling for a “yes” or “no” answer.

Employers who round time adjust employees’ hours worked might have made sense in a pre-technology era in which handwritten tim...

Code of Civil Procedure sections 225 and 229 specify grounds for a cause challenge based upon bias, either implied or actual. ...

We see a surprising number of briefs that level ad hominem attacks on the opposing party, opposing counsel, and the trial judg...

The recent Minnesota district court decision suggests that a "data breach" triggering cyber coverage may occur where a bad act...

The Legislature could preserve daily overtime generally while providing scheduling flexibility by allowing individual employee...

The Commission voted unanimously on each of the names it recommended for renaming.

“[T]he Kartons [came] out swinging, apparently believing the best defense is a good offense. This approach demonstrates the tr...

With the Second Appellate District's partial publication of its decision in Allen v. Staples, Inc., 84 Cal.App.5th 188 ...

When a party acknowledges their mistakes and commits to correcting them, case settlement and better case outcomes are not only...

Though open-source software is offered for free, using it can carry hidden costs.

With stay-at-home orders and the limited availability of courts, we learned to negotiate – without threats.

One lesson is that a grant to a bare right to sue does not afford sufficient standing to assert copyright infringement.

The Class Action Fairness Act set off a “jurisdictional ping-pong game” where plaintiffs sought to have the case heard in stat...

Now is the time for the expanded use of special masters. Over the past two and half years, Covid-19 significantly disrupted ci...

If the Court follows Justice Thomas and narrowly reads Section 230 only to protect “distributors” from “publisher” liability, ...

If you care about a woman’s dignity and reproductive autonomy, you must investigate whether the state to which you are traveli...

The Supreme Court turned its attention to intellectual property in a big way in 2022, taking up cases that could significantly...

Two recently-accepted cases suggest that the Court is focused on assessing the power dynamics in common contracts and that ...