New rules clarifying that bitcoin users must report capital gains from buying and selling bitcoins initially sparked concern a...
Perspective
For better or worse, it seems the estate tax is here to stay
By Ben Armisteadn
The last 13 years prove that Congress only acts on the estate tax in a crisis, and there is no crisis on the horizon. By Chadw...
Entering the U.S. starts the clock for many tax filing and compliance deadlines, one of which involves choosing which type of ...
Perspective
Can we trust the latest guidance on material participation?
By Ben Armisteadn
A court recently addressed whether a complex trust can materially participate in a real estate trade or business for purposes ...
Nonprofits considering the installation of solar power systems must take their property's tax exemption into account. By Ofer ...
Los Angeles-based public interest firm Bet Tzedek will begin searching for a new chief operating officer and president followi...
Public employers have a right to push the employee's portion of pension contributions onto workers, a San Bernardino County j...
Partners at enterprising American venture capital funds that scour overseas markets in search of new investment opportunities ...
Edwards Lifesciences Corp. obtained a preliminary sales ban against a line of artificial heart valves produced by Minnesota-ba...
The longtime Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. intellectual property attorney, the studio's go-to for trademark matters, died We...
A California and other states relax marijuana laws, legislators and enforcement officials are grappling with ways to better po...
State Bar & Bar Associations
A dozen lawyers are running for spots on State Bar board
By Don Debenedictisn
Current State Bar treasurer Heather L. Rosing might run for vice president in a few months - if she can win another term as a ...
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is pushing forward with a Sacramento County Superior Court battle over whether a fire ...
A wide range of multistate businesses will be affected by the decision, which may have a big impact on how much of their incom...
Litigation
Plaintiffs in Michael Jackson suit agree to stomach $800,000 in defense costs
By Chase Scheinbaum
The expenses add to the singer's family's already expensive loss in the high profile wrongful death trial that wrapped up in O...
California Supreme Court
Judge's handling of death penalty case did not hurt client, state high court rules
By Emily Green
A Los Angeles judge's shortcomings as a lawyer representing a capital defendant more than three decades ago didn't harm his cl...
Just a generation after his father cleaned courtrooms as a janitor, Joseph Porras sits on the bench.
A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Environmental
Lawsuit over the Scott River sparks debate over groundwater regulation
By Fiona Smith
A fight over dwindling flows in Northern California's Scott River is raising the question of how much power the state has to l...
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Smile Brands Inc. Irvine ...
In a recent list, the ABA overlooked the play that theatrically created the court and jury system, and explained its fundament...
Perspective
What to know about Obama's executive action on pay equity
By Ben Armisteadn
President Obama recently issued an executive order and a presidential memorandum addressing pay transparency and equity by gov...
Labor/Employment
Class waiver provisions are today's yellow-dog contracts
By Katharine Malonen
The Iskanian decision - whether class action and PAGA prohibitions in employment arbitration agreements are enforceable...
Andrew Greene claims he was the inspiration for a character in the motion picture "The Wolf of Wall Street," and has filed a $...
A federal judge has dismissed a case in which a defense lawyer unsuccessfully sought National Security Agency phone records to...
With steady growth and expanding practices, the firm's L.A. office is making headway in accomplishing its goal: turning Decher...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Senate postpones Friedland's 9th Circuit confirmation
By John Roemer
The U.S. Senate has postponed until April 28 final confirmation of Michelle T. Friedland to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...
Litigation
Appellate panel upholds lawyer's conviction for extortion, obstruction
By Don Debenedictisn
Alfred Nash Villalobos got three years for offering to have his client lie to a grand jury investigating alleged immigration f...
Real Estate/Development
Salesforce inks landmark deal to lease half of new 61-story tower
By Sarah Parvinin
The lease - valued at $560 million over 15 and a half years - begins the first quarter of 2018. By value and square footage, t...
Thomas V. Girardi of Girardi Keese joins such notable figures as Clarence Darrow, Thurgood Marshall and Johnny L. Cochran in t...