Courts must fulfill statutory duties while safeguarding the well-being of the public they serve. Some courts in California are...

A conversation with international human rights expert and UC Hastings Professor, on writing about traumatic events to trauma-c...

As a public interest legal organization, Pacific Legal Foundation litigates in multiple ways: Primarily, we initiate, defend a...

As fiduciaries, trustees are typically guided by the responsibilities and obligations imposed on them under the law and/or pur...

A discussion with a Fresno-based immigration lawyer on the importance of giving clients more control and on the imperative of ...

This is a good time to re-read — or for some to pick up for the first time — materials on implicit bias, and in particular how...

The asylum system is under attack. Over the past few years, we have seen policy after policy, fueled by racism and xenophobia,...

For nine years, I ran over to the local Veterans Treatment Court, VTC, on Tuesday afternoons to act as a mentor, primarily to ...

It’s all different. More so than any of us can remember. Lesson we all know, but many have stored in the back of a mental clos...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the recent civil unrest are having a disproportionate effect on people in California's low-income co...

Because current patent laws do not allow artificial inventors, we address two questions: (1) What can we do right now if a dev...

A society’s budget reveals its moral values, and by that metric, 21st century America barely hovers above bankruptcy. Our budg...

A conversation with a civil rights attorney about how she navigated intersecting traumas and gifts of growing up in Berkeley a...

Even the best tax planning tends to be complex and unpredictable. Recently, however, planners have become interested in a simp...

There would seem to exist a wide chasm between the constitutional protections afforded by the contract clause to protect again...

It’s a funny thing about the Rule of Law: It’s not a rule, and it’s not a law. It is, rather, a set of principles, a body of n...

State Sen. Susan Rubio has a venerable history of authoring legislation addressing the issue of domestic violence. However, un...

In a decision issued June 1, the U.S. Supreme Court missed an opportunity to address an important question: Does the abuse of ...

The commonly used methods of valuation are categorized into three primary approaches. The three approaches are the asset, inco...

On June 1, the Historic Courthouse in Auburn re-opened for business after being closed for two and one-half months due to the ...

On May 21, the SEC published its final rule regarding Amendments to Financial Disclosures about Acquired and Disposed Business...

Many of my white friends have called to express their disgust at what they are seeing and to see how I am doing. Often the con...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently handed California local governments a major victory in what is likely the most ...

A recent decision from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California serves as a helpful reminder of the imp...

The Pentagon has already issued COVID-19 guidance, and then reversed itself. Before further COVID-19 policies are formulated, ...

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Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order with far-reaching implications for regulatory agency enforcement p...

Legal fictions are problematic because we’re in the truth-finding business. These fictions are dangerous for judges, because ...

On May 7, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to prosecutors policing public corruption under federal property fraud statutes ...

A discussion about lawyering and trauma during the shutdown.