The Orange County Superior Court held an appreciation event in honor of its temporary judges on Nov. 7. This year 194 tempora...
Loyola Law School held its 12th annual National Civil Trial Competition last week at the school's downtown Los Angeles campus ...
A Morrison & Foerster LLP partner, Tarlton died Monday after battling gastric cancer for more than a year. She was a partn...
A Sacramento County judge has upheld a key part of the state's groundbreaking carbon trading market, ruling that the state is ...
Litigation
Plaintiffs show strategy in closely watched education suit
By Chase Scheinbaum
In court papers filed this week, plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging employment rules make it too hard to fire bad teachers detai...
Criminal
Prosecution hammers lawyer's credibility in case over planted drugs
By Don Debenedictisn
A prosecutor on Thursday got a former partner at a prominent Newport Beach law firm to admit that he lied repeatedly to police...
Lawrence P. Tu will succeed outgoing CBS Corp. General Counsel Louis J. Briskman, a 30-year veteran of the company who on Mond...
California Supreme Court
High court rejects appeal despite requests from both sides
By Emily Green
The state Supreme Court has denied an appeal in a death penalty conviction even though both the defendant and the attorney gen...
Loyola Law School welcomed more than 500 alumni and guests to its 2013 Alumni Grand Reunion, held Nov. 7 at the Petersen Autom...
Seventy-five local members of the Boy Scouts of America attended the organization's first annual Law Merit Badge Day at Loyola...
Litigation
Website postings could shed light on Snapchat ownership suit
By Omar Shamout
A plaintiff suing his college fraternity brothers over an ownership stake in red-hot social media service, Snapchat Inc., says...
Government
Senate committee approves San Francisco deputy city attorney's judicial bid
By Hadley Robinson
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-5 Thursday to send San Francisco Deputy City Attorney Vince G. Chhabria to the Senate ...
Katten in a statement said its attorneys no longer need the "level of administrative support they once did" because of increas...
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP hosted its fifth annual diversity and inclusion "dive/in" day on Wednesday. The firm's ...
Litigation
Former police advocacy firm hit with new allegations in ongoing litigation
By Katie Lucia
Lackie Dammeier McGill & Ethir APC faces allegations of illegally tracking a city councilman by placing a GPS device on th...
Law Practice
San Francisco lawyer to lead Consumer Attorneys of California
By Saul Sugarman
John M. Feder, who specializes in wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits, plans to stay the organization's course as pres...
Judges and Judiciary
Amid criticism, judicial branch airs rules to open meetings
By Paul Jones
Committee meetings would be more open under draft rules proposed by branch leaders. But transparency proponents say the new ru...
When craft brewers begin negotiating distribution agreements, they quickly discover that the system is designed to protect dis...
Search giant's scanning and online posting of copyrighted book excerpts are permitted, a federal judge ruled Thursday. ...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Litigation
Affordable Care Act to open new litigation landscape for plaintiffs' lawyers
By Alexandra Schwappach
Attorneys anticipate a bank of new litigation as the new health care law is realized beginning in January - everything from ba...
General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at IronPlanet Inc. Pleasanton ...
Judge Helen Williams has found her time as an appellate court staff attorney useful on the bench.
Many experts report that 90 percent of Fortune 1000 companies use captives, and we are anxiously waiting for California to get...
The ruling reconfirmed the pro-insured position that the duty to settle can be triggered even without a settlement demand. By ...
Insurers argue since the carrier is the one asking the questions, performing the underwriting, and taking the risk, it - and o...
While the insurance commissioner must stay within the boundaries of the Insurance Code, within those boundaries the commission...
Had the NFL been able to choose the forum for the dispute with carriers over the concussion cases, their prospects may have be...
Litigation
Jackson family to appeal AEG executives' dismissal from suit over singer's death
By Chase Scheinbaum
On Friday, Brian Panish and his team from Panish, Shea & Boyle LLP filed a notice of appeal of the dismissal of CEO Randy...