FOCUS COLUMN - In July began a trial period of the Patent Prosecution Highway, a cooperative effort between the U.S. Patent an...

Federal courts of appeals in June 2006 created or deepened conflicts of authority on important questions relating to anti-disc...

FORUM COLUMN - The state Supreme Court's decision in Copley Press Inc. v. Superior Court, 2006 DJDAR 11839 (Aug. 31, 2006), un...

Doggone it (a euphemism for what I'm thinking). To stay with the metaphor, I am dogged by complaints of people I know unleashi...

FORUM COLUMN - Curiously, a male candidate for a job at a law firm repeatedly asked the firm interviewers about the firm's tre...

Forum Colmn - The Sixth Amendment right to counsel means that a criminal defendant who can afford to pay for an attorney gener...

A while ago, California courts started to summarily adjudicate out (that is, before trial) a bad-faith claim; that would happe...

With all the ink that has been spilled in the wake of the 9-0 Supreme Court's Burlington Northern v. White decision, 2006 DJDA...

Forum Column - Although a single year is too little basis for drawing broad conclusions about the Roberts court, one trend see...

Forum Column - Hooray for Gov. Schwarzenegger! Did I just say that, me, a Democrat? I voted for Gray Davis three times for gov...

Letter to the Editor - The recent judicial profile of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Antonio Barreto, "The Hardest Working G...

Governor Schwarzenegger, fearing further federal court takeover of the state's prison system, recently called for a special le...

By Benjamin G. Shatz A notice of appeal is one of the simplest documents a lawyer can prepare. Usually the only serious att...

Practical tips for preparing for the worst--losing an important motion--and getting relief through a writ petition. by Benjam...

A notice of appeal is one of the simplest documents a lawyer can prepare. ...

-Anyone with even a passing interest in punitive damages is aware of the U.S. Supreme Court's blockbuster decision in State Fa...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The Supreme Court's decision in Garcetti v. Ceballos, 126 S.Ct. 1951 (May 30, 2006), den...

In January this year, the California Court of Appeal issued a decision that creates the potential for extended malpractice lia...

Criminals should be punished, and unborn life is precious. Both propositions are central tenets of conservative politics. But ...

Forum Column - By Magdalena Reyes Bordeaux - The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention Consumer Protection Act was signed into law by Pr...

Focus Column - By Benjamin G. Shatz - A common defense tactic in litigation is to inject procedural complication to delay reac...

Sometimes hard cases produce brilliant opinions. This certainly was true in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' recent deci...

I read with interest the article written by Jeffrey Lowe, "Single-Payer Bill Must Be Passed to Provide Health Care for All" (A...

Just before the opening statements in the government's case against former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, I empan...

R. Clarke Schultes was one of those influential teacher-coaches who leave their mark in a way so blunt, yet so subtly, that fu...

Ask lawyers and their clients this question: Judges know the law - true or false? Their answer depends upon whether they won o...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Anatole France remarked that the "[t]he law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich ...

According to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell , 538 U.S. 408 (2003), an award of punitive damages "more ...

Focus Column - By Christopher K. Pelham and Ronald C. Cohen - The Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution protects parties...

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Historically, American rates were essentially stable until ...