The duo behind the Law Offi ces of Lady Justice in Victorville employ an aggressive marketing campaign that they say is payin...
The Anti-Defamation League held its annual Helene & Joseph Sherwood Prize for Combating Hate luncheon and awards ceremony ...
Law Practice
Irvine firm joins forces with GC of Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange
By Alexandra Schwappach
The Busch Firm partnered with Michael W. Caspino to create a firm concentrating on business, estate and tax planning, corporat...
California Supreme Court
State high court to take up 'suitable seating' question
By Emily Green
Asked for their opinion by the 9th Circuit, state Supreme Court justices will look into whether employers are obligated to pro...
California Supreme Court
New red light cameras must come with 30-day warning, Supreme Court rules
By Saul Sugarman
California jurisdictions must make a public warning for each new red light camera installed, the state Supreme Court has ruled...
Labor/Employment
Fast food workers target McDonald's to test employment law theory
By Laura Hautalan
A group of lawyers filed several proposed class actions on behalf of McDonald's workers throughout the country, including thre...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Simpson Thacher, Skadden handle $1.1B sale of Renaissance Learning
By Salvador Mares
San Francisco-based private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC relied on counsel from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP i...
U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford of the Central District, left, accepts the American Inns of Court charter from Judge Ri...
Labor/Employment
NLRB asks for en banc rehearing on class action waivers
By Laura Hautalan
The National Labor Relations Board petitioned the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear a much-watched case over one of ...
Attorneys, managing partners and other law firm leaders gathered March 4 to hear from speaker and author David Avrin about bui...
Community News
Judges, politicians attend San Diego courthouse groundbreaking
By Ben Adlin
A ceremonial groundbreaking for the new San Diego Central Courthouse was held March 10 at the corner of Union Street and C Str...
Court leaders say the probe is duplicative and could complicate ongoing internal reform efforts, but audit proponents argue it...
Jordan recently won in a very different court when an appeallate court ruled that he could pursue claims against a grocery sto...
It's two years and counting since a Fresno federal judge announced he would take senior status. The Obama administration still...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Little fish scores big win before 9th Circuit
By Fiona Smith
The tiny fish, hovering near extinction, scored a big victory Thursday after a federal appeals court ruled the government is a...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit hands plaintiffs' labor lawyers a victory
By John Roemer
The court barred removal of certain overtime and other claims from state courts to federal. ...
A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Judge Cathcart initially bucked the family tradition and took a very different career path before turning to law ...
Chief Legal Officer for Goodwill Southern California Los Angeles ...
In Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist," Mr. Bumble proclaims, "The law is an ass." Jackass, he meant. By Robert S. Henry ...
Law Practice
Nelson Hardiman, Epstein Becker to work together on health care
By David Ruiz
After parting ways with a name partner and three of its attorneys, the health care-focused Los Angeles boutique now known as N...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Wednesday rejected gun owners' request for an emergency order to block a Sunnyva...
Criminal
Guilty verdicts bolster government's bid rigging crackdown
By Hadley Robinson
The government's crackdown on real estate investors who engineered lower prices in foreclosure auctions in violation of federa...
Squire Sanders no longer wants to be known as "that Cleveland-based firm." That's why, for the past several years, the firm ha...
A San Jose-based technology company must pay memory manufacturer SanDisk Corp. $28.5 million for breaching a patent license ag...
San Francisco now has the distinguished honor of being the first legislative body in the country to protect its citizens from ...
California's family law court system is underfunded, speakers testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, and l...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
First sale doctrine on copyright licenses argued at 9th Circuit
By John Roemer
In a tussle over how copyright licenses work in an era of eBooks, iTunes, Netflix and Shutterstock, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court o...
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee recently signed the Fair Chance Act into law, regulating the rampant use of background checks as a ...
A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.