There are many ways to answer the question of whether the drug wars are racist, and all of them are “yes.” In California, spec...

I am optimistic that Supreme Court justices who read this column will take my advice and write shorter opinions.

Mexican-Americans faced horrifying discrimination in this country. In her book “All For One & One For All,” author Amy Wat...

A court reporter’s gavel-to-gavel account of a four-month Zoom trial during COVID

A recent appellate court opinion that is now certified for publication resolves some open questions about how membership inte...

After agreeing to settle some 2,600 separate lawsuits over the company’s involvement in fostering the nation’s opioid crisis, ...

The burden of overwhelming debt is hurting many new graduates — including lawyers — and that affects the American economy. You...

Discover some effective terms for seeking and obtaining indemnification that protect both parties and reduce the likelihood of...

Decades of underbuilding, largely due to red tape imposed by prohibitive land use laws, has pushed California into a housing c...

Quite often the thing that your client fears will harm the case is irrelevant and not be admissible at trial to begin with.

America’s longstanding antitrust policy is under fierce attack. What was once a relatively insipid area of law characterized b...

S.B. 8 sets procedural traps, but providers and advocates can overcome them through the ordinary processes of presenting const...

How fortunate we are to have Professors Paul Bergman and Michael Asimow again offering invaluable insights into the movies we ...

I’d like to think Judge Romero was my friend. When I thought about applying to the bench, his was the first advice I sought. H...

Today, perhaps more than any other day, we mourn the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

"Be the Jury" pilot program can help diversify juries.

Training programs, like a mandatory training on limited conservatorships conducted last week by the Los Angeles County Bar Ass...

If trends continue, California could lose Colorado River water supply.

As COVID-19 forces counsel to make remote court appearances, an inadvertent casualty of the pandemic is that some attorneys ar...

As we face the most challenging public health crisis of our lifetime, we should not forget how that crisis interacts with and ...

The revered professor has been for 40 years one of the nation's preeminent constitutional scholars. He's known as a great teac...

In a groundbreaking lawsuit, the Mexican government filed suit against eight American gun manufacturers, accusing them of bein...

Only days after admitting it needed Congress to help extend the eviction moratorium, the Biden administration went and did it ...

If California is proud of its position as the nation’s progressive bastion, it is absurd that it lets its residents go bankrup...

Titles can be misleading... even my own

While technology gurus have praised Tesla’s autopilot feature, the feature has put Tesla in uncharted legal territory. A recen...

Our nation and our people are strongly but fairly evenly divided. Both sides claim the high ground. Too many of us irrationall...

A five-justice majority of the California Supreme Court recently held that appellate courts owed no deference to a trial court...

It is time to approach the officials with ultimate responsibility over legal ethics and the delivery of competent legal servic...

In Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, a six-justice U.S. Supreme Court majority sent a message to the country: If you...