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As farms move from the analog past to the digital future, right-to-repair developments and agricultural data protections offer...


Muslim Americans have served in every major U.S. conflict since the Revolutionary War, overcoming religious and cultural chall...


The controversy surrounding Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang illustrates how even the most brilliant executives can exercise poor judgm...


Environmental & Energy


California's water conflicts are not new, nor are they simply a matter of "fish v. farms." The real issue is whether all branc...


Technology, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech


Every legal gate in the life sciences assumes a person stands behind it: an inventor who conceives, a clinician who reviews, a...


Immigration restrictions, currency fluctuations and potential conflict in the Middle East raise seven emerging issues Californ...


Law Practice


For Halloween, one lawyer shares his favorite horror movie quotes and the lessons they offer for practicing law, from greeting...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Moving from court settlement conferences to private mediation may seem like a natural and seamless progression in an ADR caree...


Arbitration rules may allow parties to choose their representatives, but applicable law can limit that choice. For California ...


Federal courts are drawing different First Amendment lines as states crack down on minors' social media use, with restrictions...


Constitutional Law


Supremely short sighted

Oct. 28, 2026

The Supreme Court missed two opportunities to remedy the injustice of SWAT takings. When government severely damages innocent ...



AI-generated evidence gives family courts a new credibility problem: How can judges distinguish genuine recordings from convin...


Like the Ghostbusters, personal injury lawyers may face public skepticism, but their advertising helps injured people find leg...


With increasing incidents of harmful AI misconduct, there is great uncertainty over whether resulting liability claims should ...


Civil Procedure, Civil Litigation


California litigators can use requests for admission followed by motions for summary judgment to establish key facts and poten...


Criminal


Gov. Gavin Newsom has three options for California's condemned inmates: do nothing, commute roughly half or attempt to commute...


California's new virtual representation statute gives trust counsel a useful tool to bind beneficiaries. But whether it works ...


California's Immigration Legal Fellowship remains funded but lacks permanent statutory protection, leaving law firms an opport...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


How to protect your client's interests without requiring humiliating concessions from the other side.


"But what about the arbitration agreement?" In Leeper v. Shipt, the California Supreme Court's answer will change how P...


Proposition 45 would go beyond streamlining environmental reviews by weakening protections for large development projects, res...


Constitutional Law


The ongoing epidemic of gun violence in America, compounded by expanded gun rights and protections for firearm manufacturers, ...


Plaintiff-side personal injury practice offers lawyers transitioning from Big Law more opportunities to gain hands-on litigati...


Propositions 41 and 42 appear to offer technical reforms, but their provisions are designed to undermine the billionaire tax a...



Employers own the outputs of the AI tools they deploy. They should audit those tools before errors replicate across every shif...


Lawyers have a duty to protect the rule of law. Encouraging voter registration and participation offers simple, tangible ways ...


Environmental & Energy


California's Proposition 45 promises faster development, but critics warn its fine print could gut environmental protections, ...


When sepsis goes undetected, the consequences can be catastrophic, raising questions about whether the failure lies with medic...