Briefs within the current California limits – 14,000 words for principal briefs and 28,000 words for combined briefs in a cros...

A review of ethical issues that can put your fees at risk.

Sometimes, the potential clash between new Legislature-enacted laws and prior voter initiatives is obvious, and the Legislatur...

Not surprisingly, conservatives challenging Biden administration policies choose to file in a division where there is just one...

Health and safety receiverships are a legal remedy to repair major nuisance properties and increase affordable housing.

Good estate tax planning is good creditor planning.

The California Supreme Court's recent decision, Yahoo Inc. v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, articulated...

Employers must now consider accommodation requests that reflect the workplace changes wrought by COVID. The world may have bee...

It is helpful to review the relevant rules governing the scope of depositions and the nature of permissible objections before ...

Girardi is already confined to an assisted living location. Moving him to another, even if it is prison, will not inflict much...

The judge’s comments are less a summing up than a dressing down of the defendants; he does everything but order the jurors to ...

Because the norms of professional ethics require lawyers to advocate zealously, deepfakes invite lawyers to raise new objectio...

If you are addressing the judge, listen closely. The court may be on your side and you do not want to make it difficult for th...

Lest it be assumed that current community-based policing is a political football, we should know it was not always so.

Gascón claims to rely on “data and science.” What the data reveals from this group of convicted murderers is that 66% have bee...

It is an understatement to posit that our penal system is utterly failing to reintegrate its offenders into society.

Many of the symptoms of PTSD, including avoidance and anxiety, often prevent veterans from facing their trauma for years. Yet ...

California Supreme Court protects rights of noncitizens seeking relief from consequences of uninformed guilty pleas.

The court martial of Black sailors for mutiny by the Navy.

The decision may not break much new doctrinal ground, but it likely will have a huge practical effect.

Unlike California, with its robust writs practice, federal writ practice is anemic at best, meaning that statutory interlocuto...

Life insurance has a benefit the other three lack: all the ways in which money comes out of a life insurance policy are income...

California cannabis businesses may walk the line – paying state taxes and obtaining licenses – but that doesn’t mean they will...

“No mere monkey business”: Why a federal judge rejected an artist’s First Amendment defense to trademark infringement, keeping...

When the employment relationship is severed the parties should have the same goal – to end the relationship smoothly and avoid...

Before the judge rules, you have an ethical duty to fight like hell. After she rules, you have an ethical duty t...

While the decision eliminated one potential tool for cannabis companies to protect themselves against predatory and unethical ...

Because the Court did not state that this was an exhaustive list of reasons why a provision contained in another document shou...

One can imagine the turmoil that will occur when ChatGPT decides to take credit for what it writes. Believe me, that is in the...

At any time after the commencement of the case, either the defendant, the prosecutor, or the court on its own motion may move ...