The objective of this article and accompanying self-study test is to review the rules regarding the requirement that testimony...

California's Rules of Professional Conduct are primarily about one thing: communication. And communicating effectively with cl...

The story behind the State Bar oath become more.... civil.

A recent 9th Circuit decision affirms that in the context of employer-sponsored benefits, the employer is the agent of the ins...

The State Bar of California Provisional License Working Group released a memorandum last week supporting a proposal to impleme...

If you are a plaintiff, you should care about taxes, and if you are a plaintiff’s lawyer, you should make sure your client tak...

Just what makes a decision “final” enough to support a Fifth Amendment takings claim?

You have marshalled your evidence, tagged your exhibits, scheduled your witnesses, and drafted your motions in limine. Now it ...

Mallika speaks to a deputy public defender about what the last decade of indigent defense work has taught her about the diffic...

In recent years I have had the good fortune to obtain large verdicts for my personal injury clients, including three of the to...

The pandemic has affected virtually every aspect of the practice of law. But we have heard little about how intellectual prope...

A common assumption is that the law ought to be readily codified into a form of pure logic and thus amenable to easily being e...

While Assembly Bill 3234 has been touted as a saving grace for first-time misdemeanor offenders who may be offered diversion b...

Twitter is once again making headlines after blocking users from tweeting two New York Post articles on the basis that the art...

This term, the U.S. Supreme Court will address whether 28 U.S.C. Section 1447(d) permits a federal court of appeals to review ...

Ransomware attacks are carried out by cyber criminals who hack a company’s computer systems and encrypt or otherwise block acc...

2021 seems likely to hold big tax changes, but how much higher will they go, and on what specifically?

As quarantine restrictions loosen around the country and people have access to family members, cases of financial elder abuse ...

The courts informed the public that the pandemic was not a time to change agreements and hard-won orders and to deviate from l...

Over the past few months, a spate of shareholder derivative actions and new California legislation have focused on diversity a...

Earlier this month, a federal district court issued a ruling largely upholding the constitutionality of Assembly Bill 32, a la...

The 9th Circuit recently issued yet another opinion seeking to clarify what constitutes a “corrective disclosure” of fraudulen...

On Oct. 6, litigation over access to documents related to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election too...

We are all being inundated with news coverage of the presidential race and information about the candidates. However, far less...

As he wrote in two recent decisions, consequences of federal laws unforeseen by their drafters are no reason to decline to app...

In my salad days, I went through something similar to what we’re seeing on the courts today. It requires adjustments, not surr...

Congress appears ready to enter the ongoing battle for control over the NCAA’s amateurism rules with the introduction of the b...

On Oct. 13, the Supreme Court denied the plaintiffs’ petition for certiorari in a case accusing the president of violating the...

There’s a sound physiological reason that teens on average are less prudent than adults. The prefrontal cortex governing behav...

This bill makes nonjudicial foreclosures slower, more expensive, and a less appealing remedy against defaulting trustors-debto...