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Torts/Personal Injury

Roots and routes: Untangling tree-fall cases from trail immunity

Jun. 18, 2025
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

Jun. 18, 2025
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...


Government, Civil Rights

True democracy requires collaboration

Jun. 18, 2025
By Sidney Kanazawa

True democracy requires not domination or division, but humble, courageous collaboration across our differences.


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate/Development

Are condos a solution to underperforming commercial properties?

Jun. 18, 2025
By Shannon Mandich, Brooke Miller


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate/Development

The 'abundance agenda' and alternative dispute resolution

Jun. 18, 2025
By Gideon Kracov, Darrell Steinberg




Military Law, Constitutional Law

Judge Breyer got it exactly right

Jun. 17, 2025
By Erwin Chemerinsky

In a powerful and meticulously reasoned opinion, Judge Charles Breyer correctly ruled that President Trump's unprecedented fed...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility

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

MCLE
Jun. 17, 2025
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

The deployment of military forces to Los Angeles amid peaceful protests lacks constitutional or statutory justification and ra...


Torts/Personal Injury

The libel-proof plaintiff

Jun. 16, 2025
By Lee S. Brenner, Casie M. Orellana

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

Jun. 16, 2025
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

Jun. 16, 2025
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

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

Jun. 16, 2025
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

Wage and hour litigation has changed dramatically, shaped by the proliferation of arbitration, mega firms' growth, and the nee...


Law Practice

Bridging coasts, building California's legal future

Jun. 16, 2025
By Kate Reder Sheikh

California law firms launch in many ways--from small local teams to all-in partner groups or relocated home-office squads. Suc...


Law Practice

Southern California's booming legal market demands law firms embrace innovation, holistic well-being, and strategic talent ret...


Technology, Law Practice

Despite its rocky introduction to the legal profession, generative AI is rapidly becoming integral to both the practice of law...


New data reveals surprising patterns in who's leaving law firms, when they're jumping ship, and where they're going


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

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

Jun. 13, 2025
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

National Audubon reframed water rights as conditional privileges, establishing that environmental values are core cri...


Constitutional Law

The Trump administration's sweeping "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" may be doomed to fail because it illegally stuffs non-budgeta...


Immigration

The quiet revival of denaturalization in America

Jun. 12, 2025
By Nancy K. Canter

President Trump's second-term immigration agenda marks a sharp escalation from his first, with an aggressive revival of civil ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution

We're here in good faith

Jun. 12, 2025
By Robert S. Mann

In mediation, talk of "good faith" and "bad faith" often serves more to posture or vilify than to promote resolution--what tru...