So there has been a mishap, now what?

This column marks the 30th anniversary I have been grinding out, I mean writing, columns for the Daily Journal.

With the coming national holiday of self-determination, and national elections beyond, it is a welcome moment to consider demo...

Back in the 1980s the California Supreme Court was depublishing a large number of Court of Appeal opinions. It prompted an art...

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

In one of his final opinions before announcing his retirement, Justice Anthony Kennedy called on the U.S. Supreme Court to re...

Earn MCLE credit reviewing the decision, as well as its potential impact on employees and employers, including the likely effe...

A little known decision from the U.S. Supreme Court this month will have a very big impact on immigrants facing deportation.

For several years, a Los Angeles landlord tried to force his tenant in a Boyle Heights rent-stabilized apartment to pay an ill...

Whatever one may think of Justice Anthony Kennedy's jurisprudence as a whole, there is no doubt that he possessed extremely st...

A June 23 headline in the New York Times says it all: “Young Children Taken from Their Parents: It Doesn’t Just Happen to Immi...

This season the California Legislature is considering several bills that tackle issues related to increased variable energy re...

A Court of Appeal held that parties may not contract around the formal service requirements of the Hague Service Convention.

The Supreme Court now will need to figure out a principle for which disclosure laws are unconstitutional compelled speech and ...

In an effort to mitigate against the financial impact of stopping mandatory service fees, labor has promoted, and the Califor...

The Supreme Court’s decision in China Agritech offers key insights on the competition arising from multiple class-action filin...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed “each United States Attorney’s office along the Southwest Border ... to adopt immediat...

Now and then you come across a case where the underlying facts are so ludicrous you wonder what possessed the defendant to pre...

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration's travel ban in a now familiar 5-4 alignment.

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed both the critical importance — and difficulty — of defining the product market in...

These include (1) a bill intended to limit the use of deadly force by police, (2) a bill requiring online access to local poli...

The act would penalize a company for suffering a preventable data breach; entitle a consumer to learn what data a company has ...

A Court of Appeal recently reversed an approximate $14 million judgment, concluding that the county was not vicariously liable...

The California Supreme Court's recent decision immediately made "Chicken Little" headlines, but I think it's important to high...

Victims and advocates must overcome societal stigma and make do with a patchwork of state laws.

The season for wildfires is already here and insurance companies are running for the hills, telling homeowners they no longer ...

Today’s impressive aviation safety record did not happen overnight or by itself.

Whether an attorney has insurance coverage for a legal malpractice claim can turn on the attorney’s own knowledge and conduct ...

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Federal Circuit’s application of the presumption against extraterritoriality ...

It may be time to move away from a precedent set by the California Supreme Court over two decades ago.