Chile's Minister of Justice Patricia Pérez Goldberg addressed 226 graduates from California Western School of Law at a ceremon...
San Diego-based Higgs Fletcher & Mack provided a $3,500 scholarship to California Western School of Law student Thomas Wan...
Rutan & Tucker LLP hosted an alumni reception on April 26 to honor past and present attorneys at the Orange County-based l...
The dental implant developer has been battling USC for more than a decade in a case that went to the Supreme Court and back. ...
With lots of experienced former judges, commissioners and lawyers to fill the role of neutral, one has to stand out to succeed...
While Bob King's firm, Legally Nanny, is booming, the Orange County attorney is also wrestling with increasingly complex legal...
Environmental
LA battery recycling plant faces legal headaches after state agency suspends operations
By Fiona Smith
A lead acid battery recycling plant just south of downtown Los Angeles is under growing legal pressure after regulators report...
Publicly traded drug giants have taken an interest in the high-risk-high-reward game of very early stage drug development. ...
In the nonfiction legal thriller "The Price of Justice," bestselling author Laurence Leamer traces the 14-year struggle of two...
Litigation
Judge to weigh bond insurer's suit against state over redevelopment law
By Katie Lucia
A judge is set to hear arguments in a case in which a global debt insurer claims California's redevelopment dissolution law im...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Litigation
At San Joaquin County Superior Court, justice delayed in small claims cases
By Emily Green
San Joaquin County Superior Court hasn't set a trial date for the more than 800 small claims cases filed since September, and ...
General Counsel of Conceptus Inc. Mountain View ...
Law Practice
10 years after housing boom, end of strict liability statute for latent defects nears
By Ben Armisteadn
The California housing boom that occurred in the mid-2000s means that hundreds of thousands of homes are about to reach the en...
This summons requires Wells Fargo to hand over data on U.S. taxpayers with accounts at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Firs...
Perspective
9th Circuit injects confusion into collateral order jurisprudence
By Ben Armisteadn
While the court reached the right result, it omitted to analyze recent U.S. Supreme Court authority on a key issue. By Maytak ...
Litigation
Craigslist lawsuit against aggregator companies can move forward, judge rules
By Hadley Robinson
A lawsuit filed by Craigslist Inc. against several technology companies that aggregate and republish its online advertisements...
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC is in the process of scooping up intellectual property partner Paul Davis from Go...
Litigation
$6.5 million Actos verdict overturned, expert testimony inadmissable
By Chase Scheinbaum
Asia's biggest drugmaker won an unexpected victory Tuesday when a judge overturned last week's ruling that its blockbuster dia...
Entertainment & Sports
Dreamworks gets online TV network AwesomenessTV
By Ryne Hodkowski
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. has agreed to purchase teen-oriented YouTube channel AwesomenessTV for roughly $33 million in ca...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Munger Tolles helps Berkshire with $2 billion buy
By Andrew Mc Intyre
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP helped Warren E. Buffett's comglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc. with its $2.05 billion purchase...
A major push to reform a state environmental law that has spurred thousands of lawsuits stalling development projects reached ...
New York-based Sorgente Group of America Corp. purchased the Santa Monica Clock Tower for $34.3 million from a private investor.
U.S. Supreme Court
Plaintiffs' lawyers gird for fight following decision on Alien Tort Statute
By Alexandra Schwappach
A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling put an end to an interpretation of the Alien Tort Statute that for the past 30 years has al...
Environmental
As fracking accelerates, state legislators introduce bills to ban or monitor it
By Fiona Smith
The fight over regulating fracking is heating up in Sacramento as the Legislature has introduced a raft of bills proposing eve...
Insurance
Insurance brokers' duties to third parties continue to shrink
By Ben Armisteadn
A new appellate decision clarifies the duties owed by insurance brokers to third-party claimants. By Robert J. McKennon and Vi...
Labor/Employment
Plaintiffs look to PAGA as class certification gets tougher
By Ben Armisteadn
This generally results in fewer people being included in the representative action (though it might not mean less exposure giv...
Perspective
Central District consent programs: benefits to all parties
By Ben Armisteadn
No one expects Congress to approve additional Central District judgeships, so we are forced to do more with less. One solution...
Litigation
Orange County courts to reshuffle cases in response to cuts
By Alexandra Schwappach
In response statewide cuts to court budgets, the Orange County Superior Court announced a round of courthouse changes on Tues...
Litigation
Retrial ordered for plaintiff who amended complaint mid-trial ... and won
By Chase Scheinbaum
A state appellate court Tuesday ordered a new trial in a decade-long scuffle over unpaid legal fees after a Santa Monica attor...