When any of us fail to “take actions that place the good of society above self-interest,” the public perception of the integri...

A ballot measure in San Francisco would require the city to fund and run a program to provide tenants facing eviction with ful...

The Supreme Court decided a case on Monday that has played-out in a back-and-forth between the 9th Circuit and the high court...

Lawyers have done a lot of good things for baseball down the years. But, like everything else lawyers touch, there is some ill...

President Trump recently signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, which includes a section on tipped employees tha...

The powerful general rule favoring affirmances is subject, naturally, to several exceptions. There are some specific instances...

Individual tax returns are usually due April 15, but this year you get until April 17. Should you rush to file on time or go o...

Note to valued readers: What appears in the following column is not an April Fools' joke. Please observe that the publication ...

Most lawyers who represent appellants lose. In recent years, the statistics are pretty consistent.

We are deeply disappointed by the inaccuracies and untrue statements in the March 21 CLAY Award profile of Jessie C. Kornberg ...

I have read with interest, and a sense of bemusement, headlines about the 9th Circuit's decision in much-watched copyright inf...

As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders compelled payment of agency fees, labor unions prepare for the outcome.

On April 2, new regulations from the California Department of Motor Vehicles go into effect. Starting very soon you may see an...

A consumer group recently sent the California attorney general a letter “urging” him to “investigate the practices of private ...

If you want an interested judge, you need to be an attentive advocate.

A 2017 survey of lawyers' professional liability insurers shows an upward trend in the average fees and costs incurred in defe...

How do we get back to accepting that it is possible for persons honestly and in good faith to reach conclusions we do not share?

We wait, hoping, for the sake of the music industry, that the court will hear this case en banc, and ultimately do the right t...

The California Supreme Court recently held that a dissolved law firm has no property interest in fees generated after dissolut...

Los Angeles residents will remember that in 2016, news agencies reported that anti-gentrification activists in the Latinx neig...

Absent a codified exception, party declarations in family law matters are now disallowed if there is no opportunity for cross-...

Argent Communications Group held its Fourth Annual Conference on California Land Use Law and Policy on March 5 in Los Angeles.

Defense attorney David Katz sheds some light on the secretive grand jury process.

In April, the United States, Canada and Mexico will hold their latest round of negotiations to revise the North American Free ...

The Oral Screening Panel is meant to help streamline the court's workload but often results in deportation decisions being mad...

A common sense conclusion lies at the heart of the Martins Beach case -- that is, the constitution does not distinguish betwee...

As Justice Anthony Kline reminds us, certain developments in recent years have threatened to make it more difficult for courts...

When she went to her UCLA chemistry lab on Oct. 8, 2009, Katherine Rosen didn't know her classmate was hearing voices in his h...

The 9th Circuit is asking the California Supreme Court to interpret the impact of a state law bearing on the parental status a...

If courts allow companies to use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to block automated access by competitors, it will threaten o...