Workplace investigators who skip rapport-building in favor of blunt fact-finding may be undermining their own interviews. Buil...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Principle, curiosity and the ground beneath a mediation
Effective mediation requires parties and counsel to balance principle with practical awareness, shifting between abstract conv...
Congress has rewritten the rules for Nazi-looted art claims, sweeping away decades-old defenses and setting the stage for high...
The Uber ballot war we were ready to fight was called off last week in a private deal. Here is what it taught the next generat...
AI is reshaping litigation by challenging traditional attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine and discovery rules, wh...
A Shakespearean phrase commonly used to describe ignored rules originally meant the opposite and its evolution illustrates how...
Public distrust of lawyers and judges, fueled by high-profile scandals and everyday misconduct, threatens confidence in the ju...
California could improve the peace-of-mind protection promised by title insurance by allowing title insurers to substitute the...
Heppner fired the warning shot. Morgan drew th...
A Justice Department opinion seeks to dismantle decades of employment discrimination protections by making it far harder for w...
Post-primary analysis of Proposition 50's redistricting shows a near-elimination of competitive California congressional distr...
California's environmental and land use laws have become so focused on process and litigation that they often fail to deliver ...
California's new Racial Justice Act decisions deliver an important victory against overt raci...
Criminal, Civil Rights
The Harry Raymond car bombing remains one of the darkest chapters in Los Angeles' legal history, offering a nearly century-old...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Lawyers should use visual aids and key evidence during mediation to clarify their cases early and increase the likelihood of e...
How in-house legal departments increasingly shape hiring, pricing and advancement opportunities within law firms.
FIFA aggressively protects its World Cup intellectual property and commercial rights, creating significant legal risks for adv...
Legal malpractice claims arising from personal injury cases generally require plaintiffs to prove, through a "trial-within-a-t...
Judge Lawrence Riff's "10 Principles for Fixing Civil Discovery" provide a strong blueprint for reform, but lasting change req...
The Supreme Court's decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC keeps freight brokers in the crosshairs of truck...
A lawyer's prose used to be evidence of the lawyer's skill because you could not produce the writing without doing the thinkin...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Effective civil mediation succeeds when it recognizes that parties' deeper psychological needs--validation, control, trust and...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Judicial reference combines many of arbitration's advantages--party-selected neutrals and streamlined procedures--with the pro...
The housing crisis is about inequality, not environmental law.
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
The federal government's creation of a West Coast Health Care Fraud Strike Force reflects a significant expansion of coordinat...
Intellectual Property
In Guild Mortgage Co., LLC v. CrossCountry Mortgage LLC, the Court of Appeal held that CUTSA does not bar tortious inte...
Divorce litigation can operate like an addiction loop driven by revenge, trauma bonds, and other "sins," and warns that while ...
As the nation turns 250, access to justice remains one of the clearest measures of whether America is living up to its foundin...