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The process used to determine whether a person is competent in felony cases. ...

Know thy adversary - what the State Bar considers when deciding to close an inquiry or investigation. ...

Acknowledging and examining a party's feelings of guilt can clear the air for a successful mediation.

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Congress and various presidents have only paid lip service to protecting our veterans.

Questioning children on which parent they want to live with will do more harm than good.

U.S. Supreme Court unanimously allows government to arrest persons on pretext of being a material witness. By Erwin Chemerinsk...

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Your integrity and moral character have been attacked, how do you set the record straight? ...

How to convince parties to a lawsuit that their version of the facts and law is not the only possible version.

In the practice of contract litigation, stark and simple facts rarely present themselves. By Dan Jacobson of Pacific West Coll...

How we spread the illusion of equality in the way we address one another. ...

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A city's rent control ordinance produces just the result it was meant to prevent - rent gouging of low-income tenants. ...

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A review of statutes and appellate cases governing child witnesses.

Professor Ira L. Shafiroff of Southwestern Law School responds to "Restorative Justice: When Victims Forgive." ...

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What businesses should know when under investigation by the government for illegal hiring practices.

Battling out e-discovery disputes in the courtroom can end up doing more harm than good. ...

One appellate court sidesteps the state Supreme Court and calls the shots in dispute over the meal break standard.

Not even the government, when it invokes national security, is above the law. By Erwin Chemerinsky of UCI School of Law ...

The current term of the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the 9th Circuit for the 15th time.

Are the Dodgers' financial problems a case of delayed retribution for how Dodger Stadium came about? ...

How to manage electronically stored information without getting involved in a time consuming and costly discovery war. ...