Torts/Personal Injury
Roots and routes: Untangling tree-fall cases from trail immunity
By Robert Glassman, Joe O'Hanlon
Public entities often invoke trail immunity in tree-fall cases, but Toeppe v. City of San Diego draws a clear line--if...
Torts/Personal Injury, Civil Litigation
Lead and mercury exposure in firefighters: What to look for and what comes next
By Kathleen N. Mastagni Storm, Jonathan Drake Char
As urban fires grow more toxic, firefighters face mounting exposure to dangerous substances like mercury, lead, and carcinogen...
True democracy requires not domination or division, but humble, courageous collaboration across our differences.
Real Estate/Development
Replacing homes, replacing intent: LA's housing law dilemma
By Sheri L. Bonstelle
Real Estate/Development
Are condos a solution to underperforming commercial properties?
By Shannon Mandich, Brooke Miller
Real Estate/Development
Buyer-broker relationship overhauled: Key changes under AB 2992
By Bryan Mashian
Real Estate/Development
The 'abundance agenda' and alternative dispute resolution
By Gideon Kracov, Darrell Steinberg
Real Estate/Development
A tale of two policies: California's expanding regulatory reach and the selective deregulation of infill housing
By Benjamin Saltsman
Eyeing federal land use for new housing and its hurdles
Military Law, Constitutional Law
Judge Breyer got it exactly right
By Erwin Chemerinsky
In a powerful and meticulously reasoned opinion, Judge Charles Breyer correctly ruled that President Trump's unprecedented fed...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Words as weapons: Protecting the bench one word at a time
By Wendy L. Patrick
In response to escalating threats and violence against judges, California has proposed amendments to Rules of Professional Con...
Litigation & Arbitration
State Supreme Court takes on compelled arbitration and elder abuse
By Mike Arias, Uri H. Niv
The California Supreme Court is poised to clarify when arbitration agreements signed by nursing home residents can compel thei...
Constitutional Law
When the military meets the streets it's a dangerous step toward autocracy
By Dan Jacobson
The deployment of military forces to Los Angeles amid peaceful protests lacks constitutional or statutory justification and ra...
Who can't recover for defamation even though they may have been libeled?
Technology, Intellectual Property
Why AI's use of shadow libraries should alarm us all
By Margaux Poueymirou, Maxwell V. Pritt
For $100,000 in crypto, Anna's Archive is offering AI companies high-speed access to 140 million pirated books and articles--f...
Constitutional Law
The shaky foundation - Part I: 2nd Amendment weirdos
By Myron Moskovitz
If a legal doctrine rests on a flawed foundation, the rulings built on it will be unstable--and that's exactly what's happened...
Technology, Insurance
Will insurance coverage be kicked to the curb for state-sponsored cyberattacks?
By Richard DeNatale
As state-sponsored cyberattacks grow more disruptive, insurers are expanding the War Exclusion to deny coverage even in peacet...
U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Rights
Supreme Court rejects heightened standard in reverse discrimination cases
By Juan C. Enjamio, Meredith Gregston
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Ames v. Ohio that Title VII protects all workers equally, striking down the extr...
Law Practice, Class Action
The end of the golden era: Class Actions, PAGA and the future of wage and hour litigation
By Kelsey M. Szamet, Eric B. Kingsley
Wage and hour litigation has changed dramatically, shaped by the proliferation of arbitration, mega firms' growth, and the nee...
California law firms launch in many ways--from small local teams to all-in partner groups or relocated home-office squads. Suc...
Law Practice
Attorneys riding the wave of Southern California's legal growth
By Todd G. Friedland
Southern California's booming legal market demands law firms embrace innovation, holistic well-being, and strategic talent ret...
Technology, Law Practice
AI finds new footing in California's legal landscape
By Evan Pitchford
Despite its rocky introduction to the legal profession, generative AI is rapidly becoming integral to both the practice of law...
Law Practice
Law firm associate attrition and hiring: What's really happening in California and beyond
By Fiona S. Trevelyan
New data reveals surprising patterns in who's leaving law firms, when they're jumping ship, and where they're going
Law Practice
Entering the California market: Strategic expansion amid shifting ground
By Sarah Morris
California's legal market has shifted from flashy, large-scale launches to a strategic, measured expansion focused on targeted...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution
Navigating Kaiser Permanente's arbitration process
By Mark Pierce
When patients bring claims against Kaiser Permanente in California, they face a unique and complex arbitration system--one bor...
Civil Procedure
When and how to use deposition testimony in court
By Collin P. Wedel, Lauren M. De Lilly
Approaching depositions with trial in mind gives counsel an advantage--whether through testimony from unavailable witnesses, i...
Environmental & Energy, Administrative/Regulatory
Balancing the basin: Mono Lake's legal legacy and California's water future
By Roberto Escobar
National Audubon reframed water rights as conditional privileges, establishing that environmental values are core cri...
Constitutional Law
Does the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act' violate the Byrd Rule?
By Selwyn D. Whitehead
The Trump administration's sweeping "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" may be doomed to fail because it illegally stuffs non-budgeta...
President Trump's second-term immigration agenda marks a sharp escalation from his first, with an aggressive revival of civil ...
In mediation, talk of "good faith" and "bad faith" often serves more to posture or vilify than to promote resolution--what tru...