Rushing to divorce is uncivil behavior. The extended time lag is required for the spouses to contemplate the consequences of d...

At judge’s meetings, in fact, at any gathering, when Norm (Justice Norman Epstein) spoke, everyone listened. I remember the fi...

The state is under attack by nature itself, and the road to recovery could require plaintiffs to arrive in courts.

What you write will be read and considered by the advocates and probably someone who works for the employer and the union. The...

The pressures on state executive and judicial officers charged with the administration of the criminal law are great, especial...

In 2019, the Trump administration rewrote the Title IX rules via a formal rulemaking process. Schools no longer had an affirma...

The legislature should make the change permanent, because doing so is both just and feasible.

If kept correctly, the ADL Impact Diary is an attorney-client communication that is 100% privileged and confidential. For this...

A term sheet or mediator’s proposal can be a valuable tool in moving the parties to agreement, even if its ultimate enforceabi...

Much about the Homelessness and Housing Solutions Tax remains unclear – even whether it will survive the current legal challen...

While the mediator’s job is not to evaluate the case, the best mediators help the parties adjust their altitudes, bringing the...

In 2022, the Ninth Circuit’s notable FCA rulings included one interpretation and application of the FCA’s scienter requirement...

Taking the time to make the eligibility determination and prepare the necessary filings will provide a company with the advant...

With the advent of the Internet and smartphones, the availability of video content has propagated exponentially over the last...

The State Bar is proposing significant changes to licensure admission in California. Attorneys should comment by April 10 to v...

Companies should benchmark communications and compensation policies in response to the revised Evaluation of Corporate Complia...

California was an early leader in professionalizing the discipline process with employed full-time discipline prosecutors. The...

California is a hotbed for “thermonuclear” verdicts, thanks in part to a legal environment that can often stack the deck in fa...

Spending time on MCLE’s can feel like eating glass, especially if it is not billable or applies to current caseloads. But the ...

The Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act has gathered sufficient signatures to be placed on the California st...

An important legal question involves the role of federal copyright law and Machine Learning applications. Some have called it ...

Beyond cost, the attorneys surveyed by the State Bar seemed to feel that a malpractice claim just wouldn’t happen to them. But...

The crime-fraud exception stems from a letter Trump’s legal team sent to the Department of Justice that was arguably used in f...

Training AI “artists” with copyrighted material is no different than human painters’ access to thousands of landscape oils, wa...

In addition to the typical duties of an estate administrator, the courts tend to use the Public Administrator in their role as...

The Bar doesn’t recognize crimmigration as a specialist area. Without a specialist, attorneys and defendants get stuck between...

To comply with Gideon, most states have established public defender offices, but they are often drastically underfunded...

What the newest round of federal court hearings means for student-athletes’ employment status and their colleges.

Several members of the Blue Ribbon Commission missed as many as a quarter of the meetings, and the absenteeism rate was highes...