In 1986, California’s electorate passed a voter initiative called Proposition 65, or “Prop 65,” which was later enacted into law as the “Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986.” The goal of the initiative was to improve the overall health of California’s residents...

More often than might be imagined, clients ask whether they can have a partnership with only one partner.  A recent case from the California Court of Appeal has held, for the first time, that a partnership (not surprisingly) must have at least two partners. In Corrales v. Corrales, decided...

Last month an advocacy group calling itself the American Tort Reform Association published its annual list of what it calls "Judicial Hellholes," and California earned the dubious distinction of coming in toward the top of the list (having been narrowly defeated for first place by the court system in...

The Journal of the American Bar Association recently reported that 295 judges at a judicial conference were given a three-question test, as part of a study to determine how judges make decisions.  The questions, devised by a professor at MIT, were geared toward assessing whether judges are...

Lawyers are trained, from the first day of law school and continuing throughout their careers, to be precise with their words, both spoken and written.  Attention to verbal precision -- or the lack thereof -- often spells the difference between winning and losing in litigation cases. Consider the...

Nothing diminishes the entrepreneurial spirit like an unjust lawsuit . . . except, perhaps, for the six-figure legal costs that often come along with hotly-contested litigation.  Wouldn't it be great if someone else paid those hefty legal fee bills? Here is a rule of thumb that...