Consumer Protection Law
Uber's proposed "fee cap" initiative disguises limiting injured people's access to legal and medical resources as consumer pro...
Family
In family court, the sharpest move isn't shouting--it's staying civil, staying organized, and letting strategy outmaneuver the...
Space Law/Aviation/Aerospace
Early implementation of advanced air mobility will require a wide range of transactional work--from MOUs, leases, and financin...
Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
The 9th Circuit puts ideology above women's privacy, forcing a Korean spa to abandon centuries-old traditions, religious belie...
Labor/Employment, Civil Rights
Workers diagnosed with autism and attention deficit hyperactive disorder are reshaping how the law understands disability, mer...
Criminal
The DOJ's decision to hire prosecutors straight out of law school throws rookies into federal court before they've ever taken ...
Judges and Judiciary, Civil Procedure
Is it time to consider making court fully remote?
Courts already function largely online; completing the transition to a near-fully remote system would deliver meaningful cost ...
ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 518 does not ban mediator's proposals; rather, it requires that any proposal be vetted and negotiate...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Torts/Personal Injury
Early immersion in the courtroom and jury box yields lasting lessons about litigating health care negligence cases--lessons th...
Test your knowledge of hearsay rules before spring break.
In 'The Uncool,' Cameron Crowe recounts his early rock journalism, including 18 months with David Bowie and reporting on legen...
Space Law/Aviation/Aerospace
Advanced air mobility flights will operate within existing FAA and DOT rules for charters, public charters and commuter air ca...
Why SBA guidance encouraging bypassing permits doesn't relieve fire victims or builders from California's legal obligations.
Constitutional Law, Administrative/Regulatory
In Trump v. Cook, the Supreme Court will decide whether President Trump can remove a Federal Reserve Board governor d...
Administrative/Regulatory
Senate Bill 707 expands access to California public meetings by requiring eligible agencies to offer online and telephonic par...
Civil Procedure, Technology
A dog custody dispute, a blogger named Sassafras Patterdale, and $5,000 in sanctions. A lesson about fabricated citations that...
Evidence
Argueta v. Worldwide Flight Services demonstrates how portraying a plaintiff as "bad" through character evidence can u...
Space Law/Aviation/Aerospace, Administrative/Regulatory
Advanced Air Mobility operations may be structured under several existing federal aviation regulatory frameworks, each offerin...
Technology, Law Practice
Administrative/Regulatory, Constitutional Law
Agencies taking power Congress never gave them
A look at two cases (in Part 1) showing how courts abdicate judicial duty and allow agencies to be laws unto themselves.
Every day, practitioners enter courthouses built for a bygone society, facing disputes once legally invisible, raising the que...
Family, Alternative Dispute Resolution
This second installment explains how combining private mediation with a privately compensated temporary judge can streamline c...
Criminal, Constitutional Law
AB 1897 would rewrite California's Mentally Disordered Offender law by lowering the standard for civil commitment from "substa...
Technology
Civility isn't just good manners -- it's a strategic advantage that can enhance your credibility, persuade judges, and ultimat...
Family, Alternative Dispute Resolution
Stipulations can streamline custody cases, even in domestic violence matters. But as the Court of Appeal reminds us, in Sectio...
Judges and Judiciary
The crumbling infrastructure of federal courthouses is not merely a crisis of bricks and mortar but a profound human tragedy t...
Technology, Intellectual Property
Federal courts are the right venue for IP disputes, but they are not well positioned for AI-driven conflicts. A mediator with ...