Attorney General Kamala Harris spoke at a statewide summit in Anaheim on Wednesday, addressing an audience of judicial officer...
USC School of Law's Institute for Corporate Counsel held its annual seminar on Tuesday at the California Club in Los Angeles. ...
The product liability firm opened an office this week with two former Morris Polich & Purdy LLP trial attorneys who specia...
Students from Theodore Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights acted as attorneys in mock trials held at Reed Smith LLP on Wedn...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit approves high attorney fee award in low-damage case
By John Roemer
An award of almost $700,000 in attorney fees to a prevailing plaintiff in an employment discrimination case is acceptable even...
Corporate
Cooley advises San Diego anti-bacterial drugmaker in $140M sale
By Andrew Mc Intyre
The Rempex Pharmaceuticals acquisition is expected to help The Medicines Co. fill a gap in its offerings pipeline and compleme...
Criminal
Prisoner, sentenced as a juvenile to life without parole, seeks early release
By Hamed Aleazizn
A 2012 law that allows those sentenced as juveniles to life without parole to petition for resentencing will face what experts...
Intellectual Property
House of Representatives approves Silicon Valley-backed patent bill
By Kevin Lee
Lawyers who favor reducing frivolous patent infringement claims filed by patent holding companies are treating legislation pas...
Education
State Bar announces members of skills training task force
By Don Debenedictisn
Thirty lawyers, judges and legal academics drew the job Tuesday of figuring out how to ensure future California lawyers have m...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Some legal malpractice causes of action may be transferrable
By Ben Armisteadn
Decades after the creation of the general rule that such claims are not assignable, a court has carved out a narrow exception....
Gov. Jerry Brown announced the appointments of 18 new trial court judges Thursday, including eight to Los Angeles County Super...
California Supreme Court
State high court debates whether man who possessed child porn can practice law
By Emily Green
For the second time in two months, the State Supreme Court is wrestling with the question of when to ban a wrongdoer from bar ...
Interactions with this type of opposing counsel can trigger all kinds of reactions in us, and it can be difficult to know what...
A roundup of recent merger and acquisition 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...
General Counsel of Argonaut Investments Corte Madera ...
International
Singapore beefs up infrastructure to woo IP-rich companies
By Caitlin Johnson
The island nation, which has long pushed for multinational corporations to make it their base of operations in Asia, hopes to ...
Victims of child pornography explain that knowing that people all over the world are watching the video footage feels like bei...
Here are some highlights of bills enacted in 2013 that will become effective next year. By Christine Spagnoli and Nancy Peveri...
A federal judge's ruling this week could allow pension-saddled municipalities across the nation - including in California - to...
Litigation
Trademark battle over skull-shaped liquor bottles ends in defense win
By Henry Meier
Lawyers representing the maker of Crystal Head Vodka failed to convince a jury that the maker of Kah Day of the Dead Tequila -...
A San Jose judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the company's privacy policy for sharing user data, but left plaintiffs one m...
Litigation
Attorney 'robosigned' collections complaints for JPMorgan, suit says
By Chase Scheinbaum
A lawsuit echoing Attorney General Kamala Harris' robosigning litigation provides insight into how the bank allegedly filed hu...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Defendants entitled to relief if appellate counsel ineffective, 9th Circuit rules
By John Roemer
Convicted clients who fall victim to ineffective assistance by their appellate counsel may be entitled to relief even if their...
A nightmarish scenario has unfolded in Massachusetts, where a forensic technician who handled 40,000 criminal drug cases over ...
Law Practice
At Wilson Sonsini, the firm's leader grapples with changes, globalization
By Jill Patton
In an interview, Larry Sonsini discusses the major forces affecting law firm business and what advice he has for corporate cou...
Criminal
Proposal would give defenders abilty to record witnesses without their knowledge
By Hamed Aleazizn
The Project for the Innocent at Loyola Law School has drafted legislation that would provide criminal defense attorneys and th...
A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.
Nonbank lenders, from private equity firms to insurance companies, often lend alongside banks, which creates a host of issues ...
Whatever the cause of the recent accident claiming the lives of Paul Walker and Roger Rodas, the event is likely to ignite a f...