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...

Lawyers have a duty to communicate with their clients. And they have many options regarding the means they use to do so. These...

As the asset-light business model for hotel companies has become de rigueur, long-term management contracts have taken on incr...

“What am I supposed to do, just die in prison?” I was seated just outside the dilapidated holding cell adjacent to the courtro...

So am I going to go ahead with my novel? I’m thinking about it.

To produce sufficient food and fiber to feed California, the nation and the world, Central Valley farmers use synthetic and o...

From ancient times, people have erected statues celebrating significant figures of their eras. As times change, such monuments...

Imagine being a teenage girl and locked up in a juvenile detention facility. Now imagine being sexually assaulted up to 10 tim...

Mediators persist in efforts to rebuild and renew. The destroyers and innovative creators of the last 856 years in the evolvin...

It is not enough to be competent with the “black letter” principles. Lawyers will be competent only if they are aware of the ...

There’s a legitimate debate about how best to balance public coastal access with private property rights. But there should be ...

Yet another example of the sacrifices military families make

On April 17, the Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association will celebrate its Forty Fourth Anniversary at a dinner at th...

“Our Selma” is an apt description of this person we so love and respect. This affectionate possessive was how retired Supreme ...

New York did it. San Francisco and Newark did it. Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Connecticut and other jurisdictions are considerin...

Manufacturers may soon find themselves back in the hot seat after a March 14 decision from the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Brenda F. Harbin-Forte, a judge on the Alameda County Superior Court, has researched and written about African-American women ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom made history by declaring a moratorium on executions in California and even tweeting out images of the execu...

The 9th Circuit recently upheld a Santa Monica ordinance regulating short-term rentals companies. This decision is a win not j...

The Bible may say, “No one can serve two masters.” But do these words of wisdom apply to the Sixth Amendment’s right to counsel?

A July 2017 paper on quantum mechanics suggests the future influences the present. Our Supreme Court appears to have to come t...

The new tax law created an incentive program which encourages investors to make long-term financial investments in opportunity...

The funds may be used to defray the travel expenses of law students and graduate students needing to access archival materials...

In recent years, courts have shown little hesitation in imposing severe sanctions on attorneys if the court determines that th...

In the battle between desire for public access and environmental preservation, respecting property rights is the best solution

When I use commas, it’s so the reader can take a break.

In September, California became the first state to ban the sale of most cosmetics tested on animals. The passage of Senate Bil...

On Wednesday, in the first part of this series I urged dissolving barriers among members of the legal profession. Here, I note...

The Patent Office’s new guidance aims to upend the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS Bank on two fronts.