This article analyzes the recent court of appeal decision on the case, Hernandezcueva v. E.F. Brady, Co., Inc., which expands contractors' potential exposure to strict liability claims on California construction projects.

Sedgwick LLP Los Angeles partner Marilyn Klinger's article, "The Basics of Bonding: Part 1 — Guiding Principles to Help Navigate Construction Surety" was published in the June 13, 2017, issue of Construction Business Owner magazine.

Earlier today, I had the pleasure of joining the Appellate Lawyers' Association lunchtime meeting to talk about Litigation Analytics and Appellate Law ...

DRI is the largest international membership organization of defense attorneys and in-house counsel.

The article discusses class action litigation against organizations that have experienced data breaches, and how the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on Robins v. Spokeo is affecting outcomes for data breach...

The article, although written specifically for the entertainment industry, contains valuable cyber resilience information relevant to all businesses ..

While all of these steps may not necessarily apply to all situations, we recommend that HIPAA covered entities and business entities review their current IRP and procedures and compare...

Please join us for an innovative exploration of data analytics and how it can enhance your appellate practice.

In my C-Suite Risk Report posting in March, I discussed the UK's Serious Fraud Office's (SFO) investigation into Rolls-Royce (RR) and the UK Court's approval of a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA).

The FCA defines a platform service as a service which offers access to third-party investment products.

We recalculated the criminal case statistics, dividing the data into non-death penalty and death penalty cases.

This week, we look at the Court's civil and criminal cases between 2008 and 2016. We begin with the Court's civil docket.

Our database contains 304 affirmances and 209 reversals. Affirmances have averaged 2,255.743 days from allowance of the petition for leave to appeal to oral argument, but only 1,117.471 days for reversals from allowance to argument.

This week, we'll address the data for 2008 through 2016, beginning today with the civil docket.

Today, we announce a substantial expansion of the Illinois Supreme Court database.

Today, we continue our ongoing series of posts about the originating jurisdictions of the California Supreme Court's civil docket with the years 2009 and 2010.

Washington state can be a difficult jurisdiction for insurers.

On July 10, 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a rule (full text here), which prohibits many financial institutions from including mandatory arbitration provisions...

What can be inferred from the average time a case remains pending at the Court, from the allowing of the petition for leave to appeal to the oral argument to the decision?

Fifty weeks (and just over a hundred posts) ago, we started the California Supreme Court Review, applying statistical and data analytic techniques to studying the decision making of the California Supreme Court.