Two cases are pending before the California Supreme Court: One involving the learned intermediary doctrine; the other whether ...

There are far too many cases in which the Contractor’s State License Board has wrongly failed to suspend related licenses, ins...

For those interested in statistics, the median test taker’s score has declined by about one-third of a standard deviation. Whe...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

The intersection of AI and trademarks may include rights holders seeking to select marks using machine- generated output, uses...

It is redundant to refer to facts as true. It is illogical to refer to facts as false. If they are false, they are not facts. ...

California considers custody of children as a matter of public policy. It is closely legislated and diligently enforced. As a ...

The new law requires virtually all employers to implement a workplace violence prevention plan by July 1, 2024, and expands th...

Many trial lawyers did not see an end to fair and just jury verdicts. Instead, we realized that trial lawyers needed to stop r...

Voluntary cessation in No-Fly-List cases: Will the Supreme Court let a more lenient standard for the government fly?

The U.S. Supreme Court should seize the opportunity to adopt the Restatement with respect to maritime contracts.

The discourse surrounding generative artificial intelligence tools, including those that imitate celebrities’ vocals, has prim...

There are steps you can take to proactively protect yourself from clients seeking to exploit you and your CTA for nefarious pu...

It’s easy for the defense to see large verdicts as the result of vindictive, angry jurors. But this ignores the fundamental co...

These three cannabis bills are meant to encourage participation in, and the lawful operation of, the licensed market by increa...

In September, the U.S. Supreme Court said it will consider expanding the Nollan/Dolan test for exactions on legislative...

California must invest in community mental health services and housing – with input from people with lived experience of menta...

There is no easy solution and there are competing interests creating a constant political “tug of war.” Only time will tell ho...

An open letter to the widow and son of murdered Family Law Judge Andrew Wilkinson of Hagerstown, Maryland.

Every other jurisdiction has in place a version of American Bar Association Model Rule 8.3, and California’s rule includes the...

Because of the way that streaming services compensate artists, there is a real concern that a flood of AI-generated content wi...