While the expense associated with sophisticated M&A counsel may seem excessive, especially to first-time sellers, the real...

Among the flurry of bills signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in October were Assembly Bill 61 and Assembly Bill 1493, which expand th...

The California Supreme Court recently brought welcome clarity to the law of the kill zone theory. But even after the latest ru...

Elijah Cummings, Daniel Goodman and George Washington.

Contempt for education threatens democratic institutions.

The Supreme Court should prevent further erosion of the lines drawn by the Constitution and strike down the CFPB's for-cause r...

Law enforcement agencies in San Diego County were early adopters of hand-held facial recognition technology. Now these SoCal c...

The system looks good on paper. However, in actual practice it is terrible. The rights of seniors and other adults with disabi...

Understanding the myriad sources of confusion

Even our friends who lack a J.D. know, a witness typically swears that she will tell not just the truth, and not just nothing ...

Bankers know to the penny how much money they are managing in their financial institution. Elections are based on the actual n...

The California Supreme Court’s strict circumscription of the “kill zone” theory in a recent case was no doubt designed to shor...

My radical proposal is this: Where a state court misapplies — or even cites and then ignores — Supreme Court precedent, the Su...

How to stay golden when migrating from the Golden State

Shouting and blasting from synagogues to Washington DC

The Judicial Council has been misinforming the judiciary about the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act since t...

Over the past 230 years, patent law has adapted to accommodate new types of technology. The adaptations can be slow, inconsis...

In a 4-3 decision, and after many months of deliberation, the Arizona Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling on Sept. 16 in Bru...

Judges should be held to the highest of ethical standards, and there's no reason they should keep a reward, like a pension, if...

A bankruptcy proceeding isn’t ordinarily what you think of as a Supreme Court blockbuster. But when the bankruptcy proceeding ...

The Los Angeles City Council is on the verge of enacting our own Right to Counsel Program, providing legal counsel to tenants ...

The California Judicial Council is scheduled to adopt new rules requiring conservatorship attorneys to receive education on a ...

With climate change at our doorstep, our state leaders know we don’t have time to wait until the next drought to create a more...

Sometimes, a lawyer might be the first responder

In a recent case of first impression, the California Supreme Court considered whether settling with a party in a multiparty to...

Assembly Bill 1270 (Stone) is an attempt to expand the False Claims Act to allow the attorney general, local prosecutors and p...

The California Supreme Court has rejected the government's attempt to require a youth probationer, as a condition of release, ...

The shore defining the boundary of indigent defendants' constitutional right to forestall or forego liability for certain asse...

States are increasingly recognizing that lives can be saved by Extreme Risk Protection laws, which enable people who exhibit ...

Are we in the midst of a similar trend in formal legal writing, relaxing the use of contractions? Are the few judicial contrac...