In the early 90s, the California Supreme Court ruled that the contact information for persons arrested could be released. This...

After the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in November, will Alaska prove to be the exception or the rule for the future of ...

Chevron deference has been a quite controversial doctrine, both on and off the courts. The controversy has encompassed the doc...

As we have seen, sometimes appellate courts do get their hands dirty with facts and will entertain a new fact for the first ti...

The California Supreme Court is considering whether to hear a case that could require the nation’s largest water agency to rel...

There are plenty of opportunities for attorneys from any practice area or background to get involved in pro bono service year-...

In a case of first impression, the court in In re Marriage of Macilwaine, 18 DJDAR 8490 (Cal. App. 1st Dist., Aug. 28, 2018), ...

Let’s hope Mark Judge can be a better man than the belligerent drunk he at least tried to stop from escalating a sexual assaul...

Last week’s hearings on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court cost many of us some billable hours. Inst...

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan held that Sen. Richard Blumenthal, and some 200 other members of Congress, ha...

Prior to the 1970s, material containing asbestos was widely used in construction. From insulation, to plaster, to siding, to t...

The ancient Greeks told a myth of Scylla and Charybdis, a pair of sea monsters on opposite sides of a narrow strait and lured ...

When the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down its decision, it was not a big surprise. The news is not all good for U...

Investors who hold real property tax lien certificates sometimes find that the real property to which the lien attaches is aff...

The ripple effect of an early disclosure of the likely actual penalties to be incurred by first time DUI alleged offenders wil...

Take a look around you. Consider what is occurring throughout the country. An uneducated citizenry and one predominantly educa...

This article urges lawyers to put down for a moment the electronic legal menus we now rely on, check out some of these volumes...

There are countless reasons why people who are sexually assaulted or abused do not report what happened: It’s painful. It’s em...

This article not a judgment on the merits of capital punishment or its appropriateness in these cases, which include defendant...

SB 954 appears to be driven by our Legislature’s desire to offer consumer protection to clients who choose to settle their dis...

Effective Jan. 1, 2019, AB 2084 adds Section 8050 to the Business and Professions Code to limit the business practices of lic...

Evidence of confusion and tarnishment often tip the balance.

Earn MCLE credit reviewing a recent Supreme Court case dealing with a conflict waiver that didn't quite get the job done.

Many California lawyers may not be aware of the Malpractice Insurance Working Group or what it’s currently studying.

Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 3249, the State Bar bill. The bill amends over 100 various statutory provisio...

Given the requirement to promptly refund unearned advance fees, once the disputed funds are identified and segregated, lawyers...

We have a seasoned prosecutor cross-examining a victim of a violent crime for the whole country to see. Yet, the cross-examina...

Dive into some California Supreme Court statistics to examine how the retirement Justice Kathryn M. Werdgar— which has led to ...

“Norman Mailer: The Sixties: A Library of America Boxed Set” (2018) shows Mailer as really one of the inventors of what came ...

The almost absolute protection for mediation confidentiality stems from California’s Evidence Code Sections 1115-1128 enacted ...