A discussion about mediating emotionally complex cases.

The first impulse of an attorney on the receiving end of a legal malpractice claim may be to panic. Here are some helpful tips...

If the Supreme Court rules that the Medicaid Act does not preempt state law, laws like those in California that do not permit ...

While driving on a particularly winding stretch of road, professional golfer Tiger Woods sustained multiple injuries as a resu...

Gaveling out last week, the justices issued their final opinions of the October 2020 term, drawing to a close one of the most ...

In a first, a California Court of Appeal has issued an opinion that holds that the governor has the power to unilaterally legi...

There is a bit of nebulousness when it comes to talking about AI and the law. Different experts or pundits seem to refer to th...

On the bench now for 26 years, Kim Wardlaw tells us about becoming a federal judge and about life on the 9th Circuit. She also...

There has been much buzz about the surprising loquaciousness of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a statement regarding...

A number of years ago, it dawned on me that takings decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court generally seemed to come down in Jun...

Activities of shareholder activists this proxy season at oil and gas companies have been widely reported. The successes of the...

The pop singer’s conservatorship case is a perfect example of why laws that “protect” the right to counsel have too many looph...

Part of the For the People Act (H.R. 1) would attack the FEC’s problem of not being able to form a quorum.

Appellate folklore -- borne out by statistical reports -- is that at least 3% of all California appeals are dismissed for proc...

To date, no corporation itself has challenged either law. And in March 2021, more than two years after the enactment of SB 826...

A few points about how judges think and operate.

Suppose you have a consumer class action involving thousands, or millions, of consumers who ingested a tainted supplement. How...

In Pakdel v. City and County of San Francisco, the Supreme Court spoke with one voice. Knick v. Township of Scott means what i...

Some California jurisdictions are experiencing increases in their local minimum wages rates, effective this week.

Hats off to Public Counsel's Amanda Pertusati and Paul Hastings' Andy LeGolvan

The U.S. Supreme Court in a recent case sided with credit reporting agency TransUnion in ruling that thousands of consumers im...

The Supreme Court is considering whether to review a case involving a long-running dispute over water rights in the Imperial V...

The majority opinion encourages Congress to amend Section 230 to legally mandate that platforms adopt automated content filter...

Unfortunately, the pop star’s experience is a common one for people with developmental disabilities or mental illness, whose f...

The U.S. Supreme Court held that the administrative patent judges of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, which decides inter pa...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently addressed important substantive and procedural questions for class certification in federal se...

A win in a class action is a win for many. It is not only the members of the class action who are directly part of the settlem...

On June 18, the IRS released Chief Counsel Advice 202124008, asking and answering a question: Does an exchange of (i) Bitcoin...

I read with great interest my colleague Judge Michael Stern’s June 29 column, “Service by process by email: A modest 21st cent...

With the latest emergency temporary standards for vaccinated and unvaccinated employees in the workplace and many employees re...