Law is a rules-based profession for a reason. Attorneys are trained to understand and interpret basic to complex rules that in...

The harms to the unhoused and to all of us have become too severe to be excused by doctrines of federal deference.

A recent appellate ruling may come as a surprise to the defense bar, which might have assumed that general, even categorical, ...

As much as any federal judge in the country, Milan D. Smith, Jr. of the 9th Circuit represents the ideal in public service, go...

I’m often asked: When examining witnesses, my opponents like to ask questions that have nothing to do with the case. Why don’t...

A dressing room invasion and a dispute between neighbors are the subjects of recent appellate decisions.

One of the more interesting outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the reluctance of many workers to go back to their prio...

A year ago, the country was led by someone who railed against climate change as a hoax, and whose underlings were forbidden to...

Our nation and our people are strongly but fairly evenly divided. Both sides claim the high ground. Too many of us irrationall...

The Smartnail is being offered by a nail Salon called Lanour Beauty Lounge in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The wearer can shar...

When the 15 agencies of the executive branch unite behind a core goal, it is time to take notice.

A longstanding parable in AI is that there might someday be a super-intelligent system that would seek to attain a human-provi...

Led by its conservative majority, the U.S. Supreme Court has actively reshaped takings jurisprudence in recent years.

A five-justice majority of the California Supreme Court recently held that appellate courts owed no deference to a trial court...

It is time to approach the officials with ultimate responsibility over legal ethics and the delivery of competent legal servic...

No one plans a pandemic, but ultimately someone must pay for it. In the United States, lawmakers have responded to the crisis ...

In Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, a six-justice U.S. Supreme Court majority sent a message to the country: If you...

Sisters Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian won their suit for royalties from the makeup line Kardashian Beauty.

In these bi-monthly columns, I pontificate on appellate brief writing from my lofty perch as an appellate know-it-all. But do ...

The objective of this article and accompanying self-study quiz is to familiarize readers with California law and motion proced...

Part 2: The duties owed by partners of afflicted lawyer

Many attorneys anticipate the meet-and-confer process as eagerly as a dentist visit, but it can nonetheless prove useful; in m...

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld your constitutional right to privacy of association. On July 1, in a 6-3 opinion in American...

In my many years as a litigation and trial lawyer, I recommended and helped select a lot of mediators. I also participated in ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has another opportunity to finally end the battle over the enforceability of pre-dispute arbitration ag...

Candace Cooper, formerly of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, discusses her experience on the bench.

California’s historic adoption of new ethics rules in 2018 is now behind us, but the switch to the American Bar Association’s ...

Some assert that the advent of AI has increasingly become unruly and is precipitously veering toward lawlessness. AI systems a...

Typically, subrogation is a matter of contract and the rights and responsibilities of parties are set forth within the terms o...

According to data from the last Homeless Count in 2020, the city will have to house more than 66,000 people. Now it’s time to ...