Even for a bank too big to fail, $2 billion is a lot of money to lose. That’s what the largest U.S. bank reported last week. JPMorgan Chase stirred bank regulators and stockholders into action as they demanded heads to roll for the colossal goof.

Even for a bank too big to fail, $2 billion is a lot of money to lose. That’s what the largest U.S. bank reported last week. JPMorgan Chase stirred bank regulators and stockholders into action as they demanded heads to roll for the colossal goof.

Even for a bank too big to fail, $2 billion is a lot of money to lose. That’s what the largest U.S. bank reported last week. JPMorgan Chase stirred bank regulators and stockholders into action as they demanded heads to roll for the colossal goof.

This commencement address is a work of fiction.

It is comforting that our media and politicians are focused on gay marriage. After all, little is more important. We would not want them to waste their time on that pesky global debt problem or a nuclear Iran.

I am sick of the argument that cold-calling still has a valuable place in selling. Someone please show me the value.

The stench of Chicago cronyism over the White House just got fouler. Inhale this: A shadowy $10 billion Obamacare agency with zero oversight just awarded first lady Michelle Obama's pet patient-dumping scheme at the University of Chicago Medical Center a $5.9 million taxpayer-funded grant. It will enable Michelle Obama's cronies to build a government-sponsored electronic medical record-sharing system.

Most lawyers in today’s world have set aside their fountain pens and yellow legal pads and opened their laptops. Many lawyers have taken paperless practice to the extreme, carrying all of their data in a flash drive that hangs around their neck and storing all of their files in the cloud. With the disappearance of physical client files and related materials, what ethical rules can potentially apply within the contemporary world of the Green Law Office? The answer is: the same ethical rules that apply to a lawyer practicing law with a yellow pad and fountain pen. The difference is in the application.

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed another bill aimed at disenfranchising voters. Passed by Democrats catering to the demands of organized labor, SB 829 joins SB 922 in repudiating public votes. Union leaders must be cackling in their smoke-filled back rooms, or more likely, in the offices of their legislative puppets.

As the “top-two” primary election system embodied in 2010's Proposition 14 was being debated exactly two years ago, backers tried to comfort skeptics by pointing out that Californians already had experience with the system. The two leading vote-getters, they noted, have long advanced to runoffs whenever there’s been a special election anywhere in California.