California's new Treatment-Mandated Felony reshapes how repeat hard drug possession cases may be prosecuted, creating a treatm...
Administrative/Regulatory
ATF must provide more notice about online gun purchases
By William Slomanson
The proposed ATF rule changes that would expand online firearm purchases and allow direct mail delivery raise questions about ...
Intellectual Property
Louis Vuitton's $1.4 million trademark wake-up call for global brands
By Judy Yen
A Chinese court's RMB 10 million trademark ruling against a milk tea chain shows why global brands must think beyond product c...
Environmental & Energy
Emissions or energy use? The 9th Circuit's fine line in Rinnai
By Molly Calhoon Silva
Rinnai may have saved zero-NOx rules for now, but the future of gas regulation will turn on how governments frame the f...
Consumer Protection Law
The new website shakedown model: ADA accessibility claims meet California's wiretapping law
By Aaron Plesset, Marc Jacobs
Businesses with customer-facing websites face growing litigation risk as plaintiffs increasingly combine ADA website accessibi...
Immigration
The Alien Terrorist Removal Court awakens: Secret evidence, due process and a historical first test
By William M. Paparian
After 30 years of dormancy, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court now faces its first real test--and with it, whether due process ...
Tax
California's ballot compromise leaves Measure ULA standing - for now
By Michael Wippler, Alex Kaplan
Although Los Angeles' ULA Tax remains in effect, ongoing legislative, legal, and local policy developments continue to reshape...
Immigration
National interest waivers under increased scrutiny: What practitioners should know
By Michael Ashoori
EB-2 national interest waiver petitions remain a valuable immigration pathway, but declining approval rates underscore the nee...
If you suffered a wildfire loss, you probably have a long and difficult road ahead, from finding a place to live to navigating...
The Supreme Court's latest campaign finance ruling gives national party committees a powerful new tool, allowing them to spend...
Effective deposition preparation strikes a careful balance between ensuring a witness is informed and confident without crossi...
The legal profession's AI conversation began with fictional cases; its next challenge is defining what responsible use looks l...
Family
Divergence, not deficit: Disability and neurodiversity in family court
By Abbas Hadjian
The 14th Annual Cultural Competency in Family Law Practice Seminar will explore how disability and neurodiversity affect famil...
A deposition in a wrongful death case illustrates how compassion and professionalism can foster healing without compromising z...
Torts/Personal Injury, LA Fires
The wildfire docket wave: Lessons the plaintiffs' bar keeps relearning
By Federico Lathrop
The lessons from California's mass fire litigation show that early evidence preservation, careful evaluation of compensation p...
California's piecemeal approach to resentencing reforms has created uneven opportunities for incarcerated defendants, raising ...
Environmental & Energy
With great power comes great responsibility
By Soovya Nagin, Kipp Mueller
California's public utilities must do more than check compliance boxes--they must embrace a culture of prevention and accounta...
Military Law
Upholding fairness in military justice: guarding against unlawful command influence in California
By William M. Paparian
The 2025 federalization of the California National Guard sparked legal questions over military authority while underscoring th...
One vowel unraveled a $6.5 million default judgment against Jermaine Jackson--but the real lesson is service by publication, w...
Law Office Management
Building the firm of the future: a modernization checklist for managing partners
By Monica Washington Rothbaum, Sandra Vives
Firms that integrate technology into their core operations--rather than treating it as a support function--free up staff time ...
Torts/Personal Injury
The injury happened off campus, the negligence didn't
By Michael E. Rubinstein
In negligent supervision cases against schools, it's the act, not the injury, that courts want to identify.
Intellectual Property
When brand disputes become false advertising cases
By Julie Scheipeter, Joe Saleh
Brand disputes are not always just about trademark confusion; businesses can gain strategic advantages by identifying when mis...
Data centers are the backbone of America's AI future, and the federal government must ensure short-term local politics do not ...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education
The bar exam fight is over. The real test starts now
By Susan Smith Bakhshian
California's decision to adopt the NextGen bar exam is only the first step; the greater challenge is designing a California-sp...
Torts/Personal Injury
Rethinking liability in the age of outsourcing
By K. Chike Odiwe
Cal/OSHA's trench safety warning underscores a broader legal reality: organizations that fail to assess foreseeable risks befo...
Wills, Estates & Trusts
Designing continuity: Governance tools for the modern family enterprise - part two
By Holly Gilani, Barry Resnick
As family wealth increasingly consists of closely held businesses and other complex assets, succession planning has become les...
California companies do business around the world. Their disputes should stay here.
Law Office Management
The making of a modern litigator, part five
By Bahram Seyedin-Noor
AI will transform the early years of litigation by reducing tedious tasks, providing on-demand coaching and expanding opportun...
Technology, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
How AI rewrites the medical malpractice script
By Paul J. Molinaro
AI is reshaping medical malpractice litigation and creating new liability risks for physicians who don't adopt widely used dia...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Skipping the dance: Moving past the opening ritual in mediation
By Jill M. Manning
Effective mediators can overcome the familiar pattern of extreme opening demands and incremental concessions by using strategi...