For beneficiaries considering a challenge to an estate plan, the substantive strength of a claim may not be enough to protect ...

Routine, meritless objections to written discovery delay litigation, increase costs and burden courts, and calls on lawyers an...

Legal reasoning can help presidents test assumptions, confront historical precedent and determine whether military force can a...

AI agents may soon remember our marriages better than we do, creating a powerful new kind of evidence--and forcing family cour...

The legal merits don't always drive litigation strategy. To be a true business partner, counsel must understand the leverage, ...

Generational differences are reshaping legal culture, requiring attorneys and mediators to recognize changing communication st...

The 9th Circuit is weighing whether California's "captive audience" law unlawfully restricts employer speech and conflicts wit...

Many families concentrate on minimizing estate tax, but families whose wealth is below the federal estate-tax exemption may fa...

A Japanese judge starved rather than violate a law he believed was unjust. His tragic choice raises enduring questions about w...

Jurisdictional priority among family law, juvenile dependency and probate courts must be reexamined to prevent conflicting or...

AB 2305 draws a bright line between funding litigation and controlling it, allowing certain financial arrangements while barri...

Policyholders can maximize recovery from network interruption claims by avoiding four common mistakes that can lead to dispute...

In the latest installment of his brief-writing series, Myron Moskovitz explains how he builds an appellate opening brief by as...

California's first Delete Act enforcement actions put data brokers on notice: Regulators are moving quickly, and companies tha...

The 9th Circuit BAP's proposed filing changes would streamline appeals, but aligning its record-excerpt rules with the 9th Cir...

SB 690 could wipe out most pending pen register claims and curb efforts to stack statutory damages, even as plaintiffs continu...

The California Supreme Court ruled that courts must provide indigent litigants with an official verbatim record, including thr...

California's failed Court Case Management System reflected poor management rather than a flawed goal, and the state continues ...

California's new child-safety laws create new avenues for holding social media and AI companies liable, but their effectivenes...

The Supreme Court's East Wing ruling casts doubt on decades of precedent recognizing aesthetic injury as sufficient for standi...

This second annual back-to-school quiz tests California attorneys' knowledge of hearsay and other evidence rules through 10 pr...

Choosing the right mediator is a lot like choosing the right dog: Attorneys should look beyond pedigree to find the temperamen...

Courts weighing whether to restrict a parent's social media activity during a custody dispute must balance the child's best in...

The Pandora litigation shows how comedians are challenging traditional copyright models as streaming and AI create new opportu...

From fraudulent transfers and strategic bankruptcies to hidden assets and sham entities, family law attorneys need actionable ...

Garbage-truck collisions are falling, but those dying are still overwhelmingly outside the cab, caught in routine backing and ...

"Billboard lawyers" is just the latest insult aimed at the plaintiffs' bar, following decades of others -- from "tasseled loaf...

The First District's ruling that San Francisco's Empty Homes Tax is preempted by the Ellis Act reinforces an owner's right to ...

Proposition 45's plain language, and millions of dollars in donations from data center developers, show that the measure will ...

When a celebrity divorce turns into a fight over posting the kids online, who decides--and who gets paid?