After two years of federal-state environmental justice initiatives, are state attorneys generals letting the feds do all the w...

Under the movie industry’s censorship code, which remained in effect from 1934 to 1968, homosexuality was a subject that didn’...

For the skeptics out there, AI’s impact on the legal industry is relatively nascent.

Staying in touch with your client on a monthly basis reduces the chance that you will lose contact with the client, increases ...

Research federal, state and local rules to determine if there are any specific requirements you must adhere to in drafting you...

Attorneys are expected to get a “win” for the client and must be seen as taking a strong stand on their behalf. This is laudab...

The harsh reality is that if one of our peers crosses a line, we generally turn a blind eye, many times for fear of reprisal.

The amendments are largely technical updates supported and advocated by many franchisee organizations, but represent significa...

The right to control theory may soon be history, but Ciminelli probably won't produce a single, unified guideline restr...

A recent federal district court decision illustrates the contours of the voluntary cessation doctrine and provides a roadmap o...

It’s been a bellwether year– procedurally – for the anti-SLAPP statute in cases involving lawyers.

Words are a lawyer’s stock in trade. Law is all about words: the interpretation of a statute or contract, the persuasion of a ...

Rarely in American history has the Supreme Court ever taken a right away, but 2022 taught us that precedent matters little in ...

Persuasive writers must use the same techniques as their trial lawyer counterparts who employ persuasion science to increase t...

Even though employers have raised wages and offered signing bonuses, there are still help wanted signs in almost every store a...

These so called “mini-TCPA” statutes affect businesses looking to electronically solicit customers in those states – even if y...

Judge William A. Fletcher, one of the judges in the original 2-1 panel majority upholding AB 51, switched sides on Appellant’s...

Going forward, although bonus depreciation is the first of the tax benefits being reduced or phased out, it is by no means the...

I thought I could persuade a Sutter County jury of conservative farmers to acquit a welfare recipient with the right ap...

The most effective lawyers at cross-examination ask only questions calling for a “yes” or “no” answer.

Directly bankrolling a client's funds will raise the ire of defense counsel and compromise a client's case. It can also raise ...

The IRAC formula is one surefire promise of success in litigation.

Employers who round time adjust employees’ hours worked might have made sense in a pre-technology era in which handwritten tim...

Code of Civil Procedure sections 225 and 229 specify grounds for a cause challenge based upon bias, either implied or actual. ...

If you like practicing in an area of law where you can go to a book and look up the answer, don’t become a water lawyer in Cal...

We see a surprising number of briefs that level ad hominem attacks on the opposing party, opposing counsel, and the trial judg...

The recent Minnesota district court decision suggests that a "data breach" triggering cyber coverage may occur where a bad act...

The Legislature could preserve daily overtime generally while providing scheduling flexibility by allowing individual employee...

One Supreme Court case could change the Internet as we know it