Neighborhood Law Programs are a way to get young lawyers experience to deal with nuisances that senior attorneys do not have t...

The separation of powers doctrine has been described by the courts as both “important” and “fundamental.” But how important is...

The California Lawyers Association recently issued its first formal advisory opinion tackling the practical issue of what cons...

Starring ace trial lawyer Flash Feinberg and his trusty sidekick Professor Plato.

These days most lawsuits settle in the trial court and therefore never go up on appeal. Code of Civil Procedure Section 998 is...

The tension between the definition of public injunctive relief — a remedy that inures primarily to the benefit of the general ...

A fundamental aspect of private property is that the owner can choose whom to let onto the property and who to exclude as a tr...

To paraphrase Obi Wan Kenobi, in the hands of unscrupulous and unethical attorneys, legal billings can be a wretched hive of s...

California’s groundbreaking gender parity law for public company boards is the subject of two legal challenges, one of which c...

In our practice advising California law firms, one of the questions we hear most often from our clients, in some form or anoth...

Special masters are nominated by counsel or appointed through a court, arbitrator or other decision-making body with a mandate...

People with disabilities who make up 20% of California’s population are not being proportionately appointed to the California ...

If both the common and legal meaning of “gift” are the same, why are gifts given during marriage not always a gift? Because in...

On Feb. 26, Judge Amy Berman Jackson granted Sherwin’s motion, and entered an order vacating the court’s earlier decision dire...

Toby Ord whisks us in and out of environmental ethical puzzles with the speed of a Formula One racer — that exhilaration and ...

Later this term, Geiser v. Kuhns will present the court an opportunity to clarify what must be shown to establish anti-SLAPP p...

The California Supreme Court last month determined that the practice of rounding meal period time was impermissible under stat...

Law as code is bandied around as a crucial determiner of the future for lawyers and the practice of law. Depending upon which ...

The reality is that consumers just do not have the bandwidth to spend the time reading the notices. Even if consumers spent th...

Does the military really want women in its ranks?

Demystifying COVID-19 health order enforcement

The U.S. Department of the Interior plays an outsized role in California natural resources law and policy. Two examples: The f...

An excerpt from “Of Courtiers & Princes: Stories of Lower Court Clerks and Their Judges.”

The conceit of a regular columnist is to be published even when one has nothing to say. For this, I cite Myron Moskovitz's "On...

If prejudicial and properly preserved, these errors can result in reversal.

Only about once in a decade does the U.S. Supreme Court decide a case on First Amendment rights of students. This year, the co...

The right of a woman to use the extracted sperm of a deceased partner is a fairly new concept in California, and with the rapi...

Two rules can help avoid penalties.

The recent GameStop/Robinhood stock trading saga has proved resistant to easy analysis or quick conclusions, both dividing and...

A recent 9th Circuit decision was the first appellate ruling to permit a lawsuit to proceed on a challenge to forced membershi...