The suit challenging teacher tenure laws disregards the beneficial purposes of those laws and ignores the full context of prob...
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has lured three partners away from Bingham McCutchen LLP, including a celebrated w...
Last week, the state Senate unanimously passed SB 477, which attacks the rampant exploitation temporary foreign workers suffer...
Orthotec LLC won a unanimous $48 million jury verdict against a European company this week over claims that the defendants fra...
California Courts of Appeal
Homeowners win right to sue Engstrom firm over allegedly withheld funds
By John Roemer
Homeowners who claim their former lawyers at Engstrom, Lipscomb & Lack withheld almost half the funds from a $100 million ...
Top Verdicts
Top Appellate Reversals: Overview Chart
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP
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Top Plaintiffs' Verdicts by Impact: Overview Chart
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP
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Top Defense Results: Overview Chart
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP
Payers of state and local tax have broad standing to bring suits to restrain the waste of public funds. Of course, the plainti...
A judicial panel's order Monday granting California a two-year extension to cut its prison roll could cede more control of the...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit to reconsider whether drug lawsuit belongs in state court
By John Roemer
Legal observers said plaintiffs, in seeking to keep the case in state court, may have tripped over a California civil procedur...
Entertainment & Sports
Los Angeles taps entertainment attorney for new film czar
By Joshua Seboldn
Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday named entertainment law maven Kenneth Ziffren as a senior adviser charged with helping to slow t...
Litigation
Student, parent testify in landmark teacher quality trial
By Chase Scheinbaum
An ineffective teacher turned an ambitious student into a nervous and demoralized ball of nerves, said the father of a 13-year...
Large Firms
Law firm re-equitization: doubling down with someone else's money
By Ben Armisteadn
"Re-equitization"is a term, and more importantly a process, which relates to law firm partnership and capitalization structure...
Litigation
Lead Toyota counsel ask judge for 8 percent 'common benefit' cut
By Omar Shamout
The plaintiffs' steering committee overseeing state litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. over sudden acceleration claims want...
Intellectual Property
Judge approves Apple's $290.4 million jury award over Samsung
By Kevin Lee
U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh had reservations over the closing argument of Apple's lead trial counsel, but not enough to de...
Litigation
Orange County Bar Foundation receives record $15.3 million
By Alexandra Schwappach
The gift is the largest in its 45-year history and one of the largest ever to a California bar group. ...
Several major education cases of the past five decades in which plaintiffs prevailed have each made constitutional claims. But...
A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
The plaintiffs in Vergara v. California have not publicly received support from advocacy groups experienced in litigating majo...
Newly appointed Judge Peter Hernandez has shown himself to be flexible and reasonable, lawyers say.
Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Privacy Officer Clarient Diagnostic Services, Inc. Aliso Viejo...
Re: "Put the Demurrer Out to Pasture?," Feb. 4. By Garth M. Drozin ...
California Courts of Appeal
Public officials, private emails, public records
By Ben Armisteadn
You will not be shocked to learn that many government officials try to avoid public disclosure by using their personal email a...
Policyholders and their attorneys had cause to celebrate in 2013, as the year culminated with several notable policyholder-fri...
Homegrown San Francisco law firm Sedgwick LLP will move many of its administrative functions to a central Kansas City office i...
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Louis M. Meisinger retired Friday after six years on the bench to return to his post at ADR S...
Law Practice
California legal job market remains sluggish, data shows
By Alexandra Schwappach
But the nationwide legal sector saw a slight uptick in jobs last month, according to employment data released Friday. ...
Cisco Systems Inc. and a Chicago-based patent holding company both claimed a favorable result after the Silicon Valley-based ...