Government
Attorneys advise government contractors to diversify amid sequestration
By Alexandra Schwappach
Changes so far in 2013 have included the cancellation or reduction in awards, especially in base operating service and mainten...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Appellate court puts Newport Beach group home ordinance on shaky ground
By Fiona Smith
The 9th Circuit holds a city law limiting group homes likely discriminates against recovering drug and alcohol addicts. ...
Bingham McCutchen LLP's environmental, land use and natural resources practice in California has shed a dramatic number of law...
Law firms are increasingly considering Jewel waivers in partner contracts, but established law firms can have it harder than t...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Firms rarely face up to risks, costs of computer data leaks, malpractice lawyers told
By Don Debenedictisn
Cyber attacks and simple data breaches are more common and more expensive than many law firms recognize, experts said during t...
California Supreme Court
State high court justice hails short-term clerk experiment
By Emily Green
Justice Goodwin Liu's annual clerks have finished up their term and moved on, concluding the first year of a notable experimen...
Chief Legal Officer of TriNet Group Inc. San Leandro ...
Re: "Brown Names Eight New Superior Court Judges," Aug. 30.
How is workplace or combat efficiency enhanced by telling every woman warrior that she must be as much on guard against attack...
Off the bench, Philip Pennypacker tours the state lecturing on topics important to the judiciary.
A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.
Presiding Justice Robert Mallano took his rise through the state's legal ranks one step at a time.
Kathleen O'Leary enjoys being a highly respected fixture in the Orange County legal community.
New York-based Morrison & Foerster LLP pro bono counsel Jennifer K. Brown was promoted to senior pro bono counsel, filling...
Mergers & Acquisitions
VIDEO: Negotiating the testing of representations and warranties
By Rei Estrada
In a excerpt from a recent M&A Forum, Rick Climan and Keith Flaum of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP debate whether or not ...
A mediator proposed by opposing counsel comes to the process with an important plus - credibility in the eyes of the opposing ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Selecting a mediator: some expert advice
By Ben Armisteadn
So who is the best mediator for your case? A retired judge, an ADR legal expert, an industry expert? There's no single right a...
The Federal Bar Association of Los Angeles hosted a panel discussion on the legal quandaries surrounding the hundreds of thous...
Education
Judge deals tentative setback to ex-students suing law school
By Saul Sugarman
A judge has tentatively denied class certification for a group of law school graduates who accuse Thomas Jefferson School of L...
When David Hunter sits down for mediations or arbitrations, he not only has 34 years worth of cases he presided over to draw u...
San Francisco-based Durie Tangri LLP welcomed family and friends to the firm's recently renovated office space on Sept. 12 in ...
Santa Clara University School of Law held its annual Sports Law Symposium on campus Sept. 12. A series of ESPN reporters, form...
San Diego Superior Court Judge Cynthia A. Bashant was nominated to be the next federal judge in the Southern District on Thurs...
Justice Rebecca Wiseman, the senior jurist on the 5th District Court of Appeal in Fresno, is retiring at the end of October. ...
The USC Gould School of Law hosted a Sept. 11 luncheon discussion about the emerging field of space law. "There is pretty muc...
Attorney volunteers from the San Diego County Bar Association joined judges from the San Diego County Superior Court along wit...
California Supreme Court
Discrimination case against VC fund moves toward trial
By Saul Sugarman
Ellen Pao claims she was held back at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers because she is a woman. ...
A U.S. court has delayed Vivendi SA 's $8.2 billion deal to sell most of its stake in Santa Monica-based video game giant Acti...
Jorge Subero Isa, the former chief justice of the Dominican Republic's Supreme Court, was honored Sept. 11 by the internationa...
Legal work stemming from damage to residential developments in the 1994 Northridge earthquake helped Beaumont Gitlin Tashjian ...