This second installment explains how combining private mediation with a privately compensated temporary judge can streamline c...

AB 1897 would rewrite California's Mentally Disordered Offender law by lowering the standard for civil commitment from "substa...

Civility isn't just good manners -- it's a strategic advantage that can enhance your credibility, persuade judges, and ultimat...

Stipulations can streamline custody cases, even in domestic violence matters. But as the Court of Appeal reminds us, in Sectio...

The crumbling infrastructure of federal courthouses is not merely a crisis of bricks and mortar but a profound human tragedy t...

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Generative AI may speed up legal work under tight deadlines, but overreliance risks creating hallucinated case law, profession...

California courts keep citing the "roughly 1 in 200" armed-robbery-death statistic, originally from a single 1980 Supreme Cour...

A promissory fraud claim lives or dies on facts showing the promisor never intended to perform when the promise was made--mere...

Artificial intelligence systems can reason their way to a clean, confident answer -- and still get it wrong in ways that matter.

Names--whether of institutions, leaders, or individuals--carry lasting influence on reputation, authority and personal identity.

Kratom and 7-OH products have been on shelves for years, but as sales pick up, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage...

With clearer pathways for AAM certification and operation, at least enough legal infrastructure now exists to support a real-w...

The Uber initiative is far more harmful than the 1975 Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA), threatening the rights o...

Many view California as a leader in tenant protections, but its primary unsafe-housing statute remains frozen in 1985, trappin...

The NO FAKES Act would close a critical gap by prohibiting the nonconsensual use of digital replicas of an individual's voice ...

A new Court of Appeal decision confronts a first-impression question: What obligations remain when a class-action release is r...

The question is not whether you will encounter international arbitration in California; it is whether you will be ready when y...

California treats divorce neutrally, regulating its consequences rather than judging the decision, so courts should stop inval...

When a demand letter becomes a "claim": examining a novel offensive use of New York's anti-SLAPP law--and why the same strateg...

In Los Angeles County, too many veterans who fought for us came home broken--only to be met with jail cells instead of healing...

The fat lady has not sung: At a Feb. 20 press conference responding to the Court's ruling, President Trump--after launching a ...

The Supreme Court's Learning Resources tariffs ruling proved Justice Kagan right -- a bipartisan majority used a strict textua...

In a rare 6-3 rebuke of the Trump administration, the Supreme Court--relying on the International Emergency Economic Powers Ac...

Advanced Air Mobility is racing toward initial operations, buoyed by capital and political will. From a lawyer's perspective, ...

The entertainment industry is at the forefront of innovative claims arising from the intersection of media and generative AI t...

Bivens actions, once a key tool for victims of federal excessive force, are now largely foreclosed in immigration and...

The use of consumer generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT and Claude may not be protected by attorney-clien...