Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Key witness refuses to testify against Del Norte DA in State Bar corruption trial
By Saul Sugarman
Del Norte County's district attorney caught a possible break on Thursday when a witness refused to testify against him in a St...
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi has been selected to receive the Reggie Herber Smith Award, an annual honor presente...
Law Practice
Judge green-lights Dewey creditors committee's pursuit of mismanagement claims
By Kevin Lee
The federal judge overseeing Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP's bankruptcy gave the estate's unsecured creditors the authority to pursu...
Labor/Employment
Wal-Mart gets break in suitable seating suit with 9th Circuit ruling
By Laura Hautalan
A group of cashiers hit a roadblock in their case for seated workstations Wednesday when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
On Nov. 17, the Armed Forces Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) hosted its first annual full military...
Labor/Employment
Warehouse workers in Riverside County seek to add Wal-Mart to putative class action
By Laura Hautalan
Warehouse workers in Riverside County took their fight directly to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Friday when they sought to add the ret...
The Bar Association of San Francisco's (BASF) Equality Committee held a diversity summit on Nov. 13 to prepare for the 2015 Go...
Charles O. Thompson and Nicole A. Bolson joined the firm as partner and special counsel, respectively, in the San Francisco of...
A disbarred former in-house attorney at a large, national title company is set to be arraigned today in Orange County Superior...
Litigation
Special master denies sanctions motion against AU Optronics lawyers
By Saul Sugarman
A special master on Friday denied a sanctions motion against three prominent San Francisco defense attorneys accused of keepin...
San Bernardino County Superior Court officials Thursday announced plans to close a courtroom in the county's Joshua Tree divis...
Entertainment & Sports
Universal Goes To Court Over X-Rated "Fifty Shades of Grey" Flick
By Jean Yung
The author of "Fifty Shades of Grey" and Universal have sued an adult film studio over its unauthorized adaptation of the best...
Gov. Jerry Brown announced seven new judicial appointments Thursday, just a week after announcing 12 appointments. The picks i...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Sex offenses have been excluded from recent criminal justice reforms and have seen harsher punishments installed locally and n...
Judge Paul Seave, formerly an aggressive prosecutor, now decides sensitive dependency cases.
General Counsel for Stater Bros. San Bernardino ...
Appellate Practice
Cross-complaint results in lost attorney fees award
By Ben Armisteadn
Although the defendant prevailed on the underlying cause of action, she also lost on her cross-complaint. By Blair Schlecter ...
The U.S. high court has refused to hear one state's appeal asking for reversal of an unfavorable decision enjoining law enforc...
Can a website and its support staff become an in-house counsel of sorts for real estate brokerages and agents? A pair of law f...
Labor/Employment
Circuit grants Wal-Mart review of class certification in seating suit
By Laura Hautalan
A group of cashiers hit a roadblock in their case for seated workstations Wednesday when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Criminal
Prosecutors charge attorney, former Angels baseball star with insider trading
By Ben Adlin
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles filed insider trading charges against former baseball star Doug DeCinces, Newport Beach att...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit finds police illegally frisked teen and reverse conviction on drug charges
By Fiona Smith
A federal appellate panel on Wednesday reversed the conviction of a teenager on drug possession charges ruling that the police...
Education
Most law schools saw enrollment shrink this year, new ABA data shows
By Don Debenedictisn
Almost three-fourths of law schools nationally enrolled fewer students in fall 2012 than the year before, according to the ABA...
In a win for environmentalists who are pushing California to take a tougher look at the impacts of oil drilling, state regulat...
Law Practice
Heller estate pursues clawback claims against several law firms
By Kevin Lee
As the four-year anniversary of Heller Ehrman LLP's bankruptcy nears, the estate is mired in a complex legal battle against fo...
Government
San Bernardino County may sue San Bernardino to collect $1.5 million in debt
By Katie Lucia
San Bernardino County is seeking more than $1.5 million in debts owed by the city of San Bernardino as the city awaits a rulin...
The three-way merger between international firms SNR Denton, Salans LLP and Canadian firm Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP won final...
Litigation
Federal judges to consider challenge to state law banning gay conversion therapy
By Hadley Robinson
As federal judges consider a preliminary injunction on a new California law banning gay conversion therapy for minors, U.S. Re...
Intellectual Property
EFF hopes to use new law to challenge 3D printing patents
By Rachel Swan
The San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard University's Cyberlaw Clinic have joined forces to use a ne...