A $303 million settlement over the NCAA's 31-year ban on compensating volunteer coaches signals that coordinated wage-fixing a...

As large language models like ChatGPT and Claude proliferate, attorneys must balance their promise for efficiency and insight ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Arbitration Act, a cornerstone of American arbitration that has remained ...

California's SB 940 has transformed arbitration from a streamlined alternative to litigation into a process nearly as cumberso...

When the SEC comes knocking, corporate counsel must call in reinforcements, guard confidences, spot conflicts and tread carefu...

California's Evidence Code Section 801.1 requires all medical causation opinions -- whether from plaintiffs or defendants -- t...

From Halloween to New Year's, America's four major holidays form a deliberate cultural scaffold that lifts a diverse nation fr...

Jonathan Demson, a quietly brilliant and fiercely dedicated solo appellate attorney who handled over 400 cases, argued four ti...

Lawyers can't ignore generative AI, but they also can't abdicate their professional responsibilities to verify accuracy and pr...

Democracy depends on shared facts, fairness and the rule of law; when trust erodes, it falls to citizens and leaders to rebuil...

The law shapes every stage of a work of art's life -- from its creation and sale to exhibition, reproduction, donation, and ev...

Negotiating Hollywood deals and mediating disputes rely on the same timeless principles: do your homework, build relationships...

Military bases previously renamed to remove Confederate associations have been renamed again to their original surnames, now h...

Meteoric rise of deepfake AI-generated content creates risks for attorneys.

ABA Opinion 518 restricts how mediators can use the mediator's proposal but makes lawyers responsible for enforcing the bounda...

California law requires landlords to remediate hidden black mold (Stachybotrys chartarum) and structural decay rather than mer...

In his final column as a sitting justice, Arthur Gilbert reflects on five decades of judicial service, the colleagues and staf...

The Racial Justice Act promises to root out racial bias in California's criminal justice system, but that promise will remain ...

California is facing a dual crisis as the engineered stone silicosis epidemic among immigrant workers grows -- now over 435 co...

False AI citations are rising, and the court must act with a rule holding lawyers accountable.

After 44 years in litigation and mediation, the most effective briefs aren't courtroom arguments -- they're practical tools th...

A California divorce decree is binding throughout the U.S., but enforcing it abroad -- particularly in countries like Iran -- ...

Noland v. Land of the Free makes clear: AI can assist, but lawyers remain fully accountable for every word they file.

In probate law, only those with a genuine, sustained relationship or legal stake can petition to override another's autonomy, ...

A new U.S. military campaign targeting alleged drug-smuggling vessels raises profound constitutional, statutory and internatio...

Effective Jan. 1, 2026, California will no longer allow survivors to recover damages for a deceased loved one's pain, sufferin...

Civility, grounded not in mere politeness but in the ethical discipline of listening, serves as the foundation of justice by e...

A recent amendment to California's data breach law imposes a firm 30-day notice deadline, limiting companies' discretion to po...

AI tools are transforming mediation practice, from document analysis to settlement predictions, but the distinctly human eleme...

Thomas More chose conscience over the king, paying with his life and teaching that law, faith and principle must sometimes def...