You undoubtedly know the famous saying is that we must remember the past to ensure a suitable future. Along those lines, a key...

On March 19, the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard JAssessment, known as OEHH...

On Tuesday, Senate Bill 467 failed by one vote to advance out of the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water.

The veteran community has unique needs as a client base which differ from civilian clientele. Consider some examples: A vetera...

In our last installment, we talked about the appropriate mindset and attitude advocates should have in mediation. In this inst...

In Cameron v. EMW Medical Center, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether Kentucky’s attorney general may intervene to defe...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it dramatic changes to the world of collegiate athletics, but the NCAA has fallen far behin...

3 myths about videoconference arbitration

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón says that “science and data” justify his criminal justice policies, includi...

When U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney dismissed charges against defendants in the Central District of California for the fail...

Is there a legal duty to protect others from harm caused entirely by third parties? “It depends,” goes the standard refrain.

The court issued a narrow ruling that correctly recognized the FCC’s commitment in the context of its Section 202(h) quadrenni...

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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.

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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

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

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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?