An important legal question involves the role of federal copyright law and Machine Learning applications. Some have called it ...

Beyond cost, the attorneys surveyed by the State Bar seemed to feel that a malpractice claim just wouldn’t happen to them. But...

The crime-fraud exception stems from a letter Trump’s legal team sent to the Department of Justice that was arguably used in f...

Training AI “artists” with copyrighted material is no different than human painters’ access to thousands of landscape oils, wa...

In addition to the typical duties of an estate administrator, the courts tend to use the Public Administrator in their role as...

The Bar doesn’t recognize crimmigration as a specialist area. Without a specialist, attorneys and defendants get stuck between...

To comply with Gideon, most states have established public defender offices, but they are often drastically underfunded...

What the newest round of federal court hearings means for student-athletes’ employment status and their colleges.

Several members of the Blue Ribbon Commission missed as many as a quarter of the meetings, and the absenteeism rate was highes...

Commissioners were selected to participate and deliberate the complex issues surrounding the attorney licensure in California ...

Studies show that doctors who give apologies in serious medical malpractice claims pay less to settle their claims compared to...

Given the extraordinary capabilities of artificial intelligence and the much-touted ChatGPT, there will be much thornier probl...

Imagine being able to log into an app on your smartphone to buy and sell different litigation tokens on an unregulated, decent...

Notwithstanding the magnitude of decades-long lawsuits and complaints against Girardi, the consistent failure of the Bar to ...

Zoom has provided the perfect platform for ADR and a prime opportunity for time and cost-cutting efficiencies.

Insurance carriers have declined coverage on the basis of the Fraudulent Instructions Exclusion, presumably arguing that the r...

Employers may need to revise their severance and other agreements with non-supervisory/managerial employees.

In short, the opinion held that a non-patient passenger harmed by an EMT’s negligent driving was a professional negligence act...

Businesses should review their agreements to ensure that any arbitration provision meant to govern “all disputes” is expressl...

The attorney in a cultural divorce is more than a legal shepherd and fact finder. Attorneys are hired to do justice and stop c...

If you are a lawyer, does moving out of state make your practice income free of California tax? In many cases the answer will ...

If you engage in income or capital gains tax planning during the year which, at the end of the year, does not look quite as at...

What happens if an insurance carrier is required to post an appeal bond as part of its contractual obligation to an insured s...

Government speech seems like a relatively simple doctrine, and yet its simplicity can be deceiving, especially in the context ...

If Good Guy/Bad Guy affects how judges decide cases, they should talk about it – and allow the rest of us to watch the debate...

Agency actions that have been allowed for decades now are vulnerable to challenge.

The recently published report of the Jan. 6 committee includes sworn testimony that strongly supports a criminal prosecution o...

We are speaking openly about the State Bar’s mistakes to underscore our deep commitment to being both transparent and accounta...