How in-house legal departments increasingly shape hiring, pricing and advancement opportunities within law firms.

For the first time in history, every chief judicial officer in the 9th Circuit and the Central District of California is a wom...

Rutgers' reported $516 million athletics deficit shows how quickly college football can become a financial sinkhole when spend...

FIFA aggressively protects its World Cup intellectual property and commercial rights, creating significant legal risks for adv...

Legal malpractice claims arising from personal injury cases generally require plaintiffs to prove, through a "trial-within-a-t...

Judge Lawrence Riff's "10 Principles for Fixing Civil Discovery" provide a strong blueprint for reform, but lasting change req...

What works for neurotypical children often fails--sometimes catastrophically--for children with autism. Yet courts continue im...

The SEC has proposed sweeping reforms to simplify reporting and offering rules, easing capital-raising for public companies wh...

As generative AI expands the ability to replicate voices and likenesses, trademark and publicity-rights law is becoming a powe...

California Court holds CIPA's pen register provision does not apply to websites: What the NetScout ruling means for you...

The Supreme Court's decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC keeps freight brokers in the crosshairs of truck...

A lawyer's prose used to be evidence of the lawyer's skill because you could not produce the writing without doing the thinkin...

AI-powered legal guidance platforms are emerging as a new client intake tool by helping confused consumers better understand t...

In In re Kowalczyk, the California Supreme Court narrowed the path to pretrial detention and reinforced limits on unaff...

The Department of Labor's proposed rule would standardize the joint-employer test under federal labor laws and expand clarity-...

Effective civil mediation succeeds when it recognizes that parties' deeper psychological needs--validation, control, trust and...

Judicial reference combines many of arbitration's advantages--party-selected neutrals and streamlined procedures--with the pro...

Los Angeles County's rising in-custody deaths amid overcrowding and inadequate care underscore a constitutional and moral cris...

The State Bar of California's updated guidance and proposed rule changes on generative AI emphasize that lawyers remain respon...

The housing crisis is about inequality, not environmental law.

A little-known agreement between the DOJ and VA will allow federally appointed VA attorneys to seek state court conservatorsh...

The California Supreme Court's decision in J.O. v. Superior Court preserves the important right to file a peremptory challenge...

The federal government's creation of a West Coast Health Care Fraud Strike Force reflects a significant expansion of coordinat...

In Guild Mortgage Co., LLC v. CrossCountry Mortgage LLC, the Court of Appeal held that CUTSA does not bar tortious inte...

The Sixth Amendment may require a new trial where a racially biased juror participates in deliberations, because removing the ...

Divorce litigation can operate like an addiction loop driven by revenge, trauma bonds, and other "sins," and warns that while ...

Generative AI is reshaping legal practice by improving efficiency, but it also introduces significant risks around privilege, ...

A high-profile U.S.-China summit marked a pragmatic step toward reopening dialogue and stabilizing relations amid enduring str...

California's 2025 Song-Beverly reforms aim to speed lemon law litigation and force early resolution through strict deadlines a...

When is a 60-day deadline only 20 days?