Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC and Goodwin Procter LLP represented real estate search engine Trulia Inc. and its und...
Government
State prison critics seize on 2011 report in overcrowding debate
By Hamed Aleazizn
Amid allegations that overcrowding in state prisons has led to deficiencies in inmate care, a discovery dispute has uncovered ...
Los Angeles County residents facing eviction will soon have to travel farther to have their day in court. On March 18, people ...
Diamond McCarthy LLP, a national firm with a large presence in Texas, announced the opening of its first office west of Denver...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Television show clip is fair use in 'Jersey Boys' musical, 9th Circuit rules
By John Roemer
A seven-second clip of Ed Sullivan in 1966 introducing the Four Seasons - shown as part of the current touring musical 'Jersey...
Law Practice
Law firms give students real-world experience, tuition assistance
By Alexandra Schwappach
The Corporate Work Study at Verbum Dei High School, an all-male Jesuit preparatory school in Los Angeles, allows students to w...
The Heller Ehrman LLP estate scored a major victory Monday in its pursuit of millions of dollars from four law firms that took...
Latham & Watkins LLP on Monday welcomed a litigator who represents Chinese and Taiwanese clients in a move intended to enh...
Intellectual Property
Proposed FTC settlement with Google stirs divisions among technology companies
By Rachel Swan
The Federal Trade Commission's proposed settlement with Google Inc. has lawyers for technology companies buzzing about how the...
Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye warned of the consequences of recent budget cuts for the state's courts in her second ann...
Law Practice
Experts warn changes to immigration rules will spark fraud
By Don Debenedictisn
If Congress enacts major immigration reform, one thing is certain: It will be accompanied by widespread fraud targeting illega...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Government
Officials scrap plans for tunnel in San Diego courthouse project
By Katie Lucia
Court officials are nixing a small part of a costly and controversial San Diego courthouse project.
More employers may consider taking advantage of the program now that the IRS has expanded it. ...
Government
Bills targeting how courts handle environmental law face uncertain future
By Fiona Smith
As legislators debate altering the state's landmark environmental law this session, they are not just looking at the law itsel...
Perspective
New FTC Green Guides could put greenwashers in hot water
By Ben Armisteadn
The guides take a pragmatic, factually intensive approach that is based on the perception of the consumer and the factual basi...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Employers need to start getting to know pay or play rules
By Ben Armisteadn
For employers, the most important provision of health care reform is the "play or pay" mandate which requires large employers ...
Environmental
California Air Resources Board sees wave of litigation
By Ben Armisteadn
Since it began implementing AB 32, CARB has been sued by both regulated parties and environmentalists challenging the manner i...
Intellectual Property
Samsung aiming to stay Apple's second patent lawsuit
By Rachel Swan
Lawyers for Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. are jousting over a federal judge's suggestion to stay their second pa...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit approves warrantless search of U.S. citizen's laptop in major privacy case
By John Roemer
In a watershed privacy case, an en banc panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday approved - with conditions - ...
Startup founders, programmers, investors and lawyers from across the country gathered at the Computer History Museum in Silico...
Litigation
Judge rejects Apple's bid to kill privacy case, cites discovery violations
By Rachel Swan
A federal judge has denied Apple Inc.'s motion for summary judgment in a suit alleging that it gathered location data from unw...
Judges and Judiciary
Orange County judge being investigated for alleged sexual favors
By Alexandra Schwappach
Authorities said Friday they were continuing to investigate allegations that Orange County Superior Court Judge Scott Steiner ...
Litigation
Lawyers in porn video copyright infringement case get heat from judge
By Henry Meier
Porn, offshore holding companies, allegations of stolen identities, copyright infringement lawsuits and a highly unusual order...
Litigation
Johnson & Johnson to pay $8.3 million in first hip implant case
By Ryne Hodkowski
A Los Angeles jury awarded $8.3 million to a victim of a defective all-metal hip implant in a bellwether case against DePuy Or...
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC added labor and employment shareholder David H. Raizman to its Los Angeles off...
A federal judge shut down Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.'s efforts to punish lawyer Marc Toberoff for misconduct while repres...
Cooley picks up two corporate lawyers from Sheppard Mullin
Rick Climan and Keith Flaum of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP discuss indemnification provisions in the M&A context.
Mediation offers tremendous benefits. To get those benefits, you must recognize that, when you go to mediation, you have right...