An appeal is not a chance to retry your case. But — with experienced appellate counsel — it may be an opportunity to fix what ...

Law firms are viewed by the Department of Justice and other enforcement agencies as gatekeepers subject to a higher standard o...

Amidst all of the discussion of Georgia’s very restrictive new voting law, the institution that is largely responsible is esca...

For once-in-a-hundred-year events such as the pandemic — with uncertainty over the solution to the crisis and even its duratio...

On April Fool’s Day 2021, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court put an end to a 30-year old ruse proliferated by the TCPA plaintiffs’...

The IRS has been hunting crypto hard for more than five years now, and the pace is getting faster.

What a long strange trip it's been

Following on Peter Lynch’s Letter to the Editor on March 11 about the disproportionately low rate of sitting judges in Califor...

Reliance on binding precedent may no longer be enough

Building investor trust while mitigating litigation risk

What are the keys to success for lawyers representing clients in mediation? There are many possible answers to that question, ...

Los Angeles County Superior Court’s restraining order courts in a year of emergency.

Only in the last decade have California courts recognized as tortious conduct the intentional interference by one person in th...

The Supreme Court is poised to review the standard for a defendant to successfully show that an error in federal constitutiona...

Explanations are part of our daily lives. The advent of AI has brought the nature of explanations to the forefront of ongoing ...

The author of the March 31 Daily Journal column “Is the 3rd District slacking?” wonders why I went public with my recent compl...

Ralph Baxter and Zachariah DeMeola believe the legal system is broken. Their arguments for why and how nonlawyer ownership of ...

Wanna bet which proves more effective in speeding up justice for veterans… more government regulations or class action lawyers?

In the years leading up to the pandemic, many high-profile allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination were in the hea...

Construction lawyers, and, indeed, many legal practitioners, are familiar with the mechanics’ lien.

Music venues, motion picture theaters and museums decimated by COVID-19 restrictions received a boost last month when the Amer...

Joel Lopez died of COVID this January. Apart from his wife Maria and his 2-year-old daughter Julieta, few people noticed. I di...

On March 26, MSCHF’s collaboration with Lil Nas X to produce “Satan Shoes” was announced via Twitter — and caught the attentio...

Under California law, there is a rebuttable presumption that an award of sole or joint physical or legal custody of a child to...

If the Supreme Court addresses public carry, and if it concludes there is some such unfettered right under the Second Amendmen...

Time was not on John Metzger’s side. The 72-year-old Californian was seeking justice after being diagnosed with malignant meso...

Mayor London Breed and the San Francisco County board of supervisors misunderstand the role of the probation department, seemi...

Professor John H. Minan’s March 26 column, “Quest to reform libel laws continues in recent dissent,” discusses how President D...

Back in the 1980s, Huey Lewis crooned about wanting a new drug. If Weird Al were a successful appellant’s lawyer, he’d transfo...

On March 30, the federal court in California Chamber of Commerce v. Becerra issued a preliminary injunction enjoining Proposit...