Privilege logs are expensive. And as any junior associate will confirm, they are tedious and an absolute pain to compile. Emai...
Law Practice
Can juries award prejudgment interest in malpractice suits?
By Ben Armisteadn
The California authority on point suggests that a jury does not have discretion to award prejudgment interest as damages in a ...
Sotomayor shares her life story - from her youth in a South Bronx housing project, to her challenges as one of a handful of La...
Litigation
Twitter's bid to remove state lawsuit against it to federal court is rejected
By Saul Sugarman
U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen has sent a lawsuit against Twitter Inc. back to state court and awarded costs to the plaint...
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC will welcome David H. Raizman as shareholder in its Los Angeles office Friday,...
Los Angeles County Superior Court's alternative dispute resolution department, which its officials tout as the largest in the ...
Finishing up a two-day meeting, the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California voted to move forward with a legislative ...
Government
Inmate population will break pre-realignment levels by 2015, report says
By Hamed Aleazizn
A forthcoming analysis projects that by 2015, the number of inmates in correctional control will be nearly equal to the popula...
Shearman & Sterling LLP advised the lead underwriters in Milestone Apartments REIT's Toronto Stock Exchange $200 million i...
Perspective
Preserving judgment liens after a debtor's bankruptcy filing
By Ben Armisteadn
A judgment lien is one of the most powerful tools in the creditor's arsenal, but its effect can be severely curtailed by a ban...
Litigation
Judge skeptical about letting former Hausfeld partner avoid arbitration
By Hadley Robinson
A federal judge expressed skepticism Thursday that an arbitration agreement at Hausfeld LLP is unconscionable, making it unlik...
An Orange County doctor was convicted Thursday of fraudulently billing medical procedures and prescriptions, bilking nearly $3...
Cooley LLP advised retailer Hot Topic Inc. in its $600 million cash sale to Sycamore Partners, announced Thursday.
Some small legal shops claim they're wrongly excluded from accelerators and incubators, which give coveted sponsorship opportu...
Latham & Watkins LLP looks poised to strengthen its intellectual property litigation practice after weathering some partne...
California Supreme Court
Will the composition of the state high court affect California arbitration law?
By Ben Armisteadn
In the past two years, two members of the Gentry, Discover Bank and Sonic-Calabasas majority have retired...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court grants reprieve to defendant, reverses appellate court
By Emily Green
A man who received a 25-years-to-life sentence after a stove he stole fell from the back of his truck more than an hour after ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit reverses Oakland judge who granted habeas relief
By John Roemer
A man who has been on San Quentin's death row since 1980 will stay there after a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel voted...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquistions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Government
Business increasingly turning to lawyers to sort out implications of 'Obamacare'
By Alexandra Schwappach
With just under a year until the federal Affordable Care Act takes full effect, businesses are weighing their options when it...
Perspective
Confusion over limitations period for suits over promissory notes
By Ben Armisteadn
Many practitioners believe that the limitations period for bringing suit on a promissory note is four years. But there is more...
Perspective
Time to expand the food industry's menu of defense strategies
By Ben Armisteadn
The food industry is the new target of choice for class action plaintiffs. But the torrent of class actions in 2012 was merely...
Perspective
Securities fraud plaintiffs need not prove materiality at class certification stage
By Ben Armisteadn
Although the court's decision in Amgen is interesting, its significance remains to be seen. By Eric S. Waxman and Virgi...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar committee backs dues surcharge, but not without dissent
By Craig Andersonn
A State Bar committee vote on Wednesday moved the agency one step closer to levying more dues annually on all licensed Califor...
After leaving Adobe Systems Inc. and taking some time off to travel, Karen Cottle has landed as senior counsel at the Palo Alt...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, visiting the state capital Wednesday ahead of the unveiling of a library in his na...
Fenwick & West LLP announced Wednesday that the latest version of its Series Seed documents have been hosted on the widely...
Law Practice
Litigator captures highest honor from American Friends of the Hebrew University
By Alexandra Schwappach
Litigator Patricia Glaser of Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP was given the National Scopus Award on ...
Lawyers from game publishers, developers and outside firms will be among the roughly 50 panelists in an inaugural gaming law c...
Richard D. Henick of Appel & Henick LLP helped Alder Law PC ink a two-year sublease for the 15th floor of The Plaza in Cen...