California Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4.1 was designed to prevent attorney discrimination and harassment, but First Amendm...

A dog custody dispute, a blogger named Sassafras Patterdale, and $5,000 in sanctions. A lesson about fabricated citations that...

Argueta v. Worldwide Flight Services demonstrates how portraying a plaintiff as "bad" through character evidence can u...

California's Workplace Know Your Rights Act consolidates existing workplace notice requirements and adds new obligations, cont...

The DOJ's new Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy consolidates previously fragmented guidance into a ...

Brackets, whether as conditional offers or mediator-driven ranges, are a powerful but underutilized tool in mediation that can...

In personal injury mediations, where plaintiffs and defendants often march to entirely different beats, a mediator's spreadshe...

A new proposed rule would reinstate weighted factors for determining independent contractor status under the FLSA, giving empl...

The assumption that metabolic health is a static backdrop in personal injury law no longer holds. Weight, diabetes, cardiovasc...

It's not the anti-DEI movement--it's misogynoir: How misogynoir manifests in the workplace and creates systemic barriers.

Courts are increasingly willing to hold individuals accountable for bullying when intentional emotional harm leads to foreseea...

Advanced Air Mobility operations may be structured under several existing federal aviation regulatory frameworks, each offerin...

In California's 2026 gubernatorial race, the eight-way Democratic field and only two Republicans creates a real possibility of...

A look at two cases (in Part 1) showing how courts abdicate judicial duty and allow agencies to be laws unto themselves.

Courts have long confined intentional interference with expected inheritance to situations lacking a probate remedy. ...

Junior lawyers must mind ethics, supervise staff, avoid conflicts, and be careful online or moonlighting--or risk career and f...

Family law is shifting from courtroom combat to collaborative resolution--cutting costs, reducing conflict, preserving relatio...

Over the last 20 years, cryptocurrency has evolved from a niche holding of technophiles to a common investment asset, and when...

Digital evidence can be powerful in custody, support and domestic violence cases--but only when attorneys navigate the privacy...

It is becoming more common for one party to have unlimited resources for attorney's fees while the other has none. Should that...

The graying divorce, often involving spouses over 60, has become its own specialty, requiring family lawyers, trust and estate...

Every day, practitioners enter courthouses built for a bygone society, facing disputes once legally invisible, raising the que...

Deepfakes are not merely a technological development but an evidentiary crisis, requiring family law practitioners to serve no...

The Supreme Court's pending decisions in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox will clarify the federal ...

Drawing on his decades of experience in international law and U.S. foreign aid, Matthew Cohen argues that while President Trum...

Proper planning in legal settlement agreements about IRS Form 1099 reporting--what forms will be issued, to whom, and in what ...

Women now serve in all branches of the military, including combat roles, yet in recent months many women in military leadershi...

This second installment explains how combining private mediation with a privately compensated temporary judge can streamline c...