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Government


A brewing California Supreme Court case is expected to determine how local governments can use the images of drivers captured ...


In reality, whether Romney or Obama wins the election, there will be tax increases next year. Lawyers and all others in busine...


U.S. Supreme Court


The case challenges a university's use of race as one factor for admitting applicants to some of its undergraduate slots and p...


Immigration


The Obama administration recently announced that immigrants who qualify for deferred status are not covered by Affordable Care...


Environmental


California carbon market set to launch

Oct. 11, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

The latest experiment cooked up in California's laboratory may just be the second largest carbon market in the world. By Willi...


Litigation


Lawyers on both sides of a long-running class action between Ticketmaster and aggrieved consumers must go back to the drawing ...


Large Firms


Crowell & Moring LLP added three partners to its health care practice group in Los Angeles, in part to adapt to the nation...


Litigation


Owner of scene of massacre sues insurance company

Oct. 11, 2012
By Don De Benedictis

The co-owner of the beauty salon where Orange County's worst mass murder occurred last year sued her insurance company Tuesday...


Litigation


Defendant:Latinos under-represented on juries

Oct. 11, 2012
By Riley Guerin

An alleged gang member seeking to have his twin conspiracy convictions thrown out has filed a motion charging that Latinos are...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The State Bar will pay $50 million to buy a new headquarters building in downtown Los Angeles, mostly in cash. The deal could ...


Plaintiffs who sell products with liquid crystal display screens in phones and cameras notched a win Tuesday against several e...


Orange County attorney Stephen K. Chrysler was sentenced Tuesday to 37 months in federal prison for his role in an $8 million ...


Large Firms


Sheppard Mullin adds new IP partner in LA

Oct. 11, 2012
By Alexandra Schwappach

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP hired a new partner in its IP practice group at the firm's Los Angeles office, in an...


Entertainment & Sports


A panel of federal appellate judges in Pasadena will hear oral arguments on the eight-year-long fight over profits from the hi...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Jeffer Mangels, Butler & Mitchell LLP represented Penske Media Co. in the Tuesday announced acquisition of entertainment m...


Intellectual Property


A federal appeals court decided Tuesday to grapple again with whether some computerized business methods are patentable, a que...


Judges and Judiciary


Litigants could see their Central District cases slow even further if Congress fails to extend or make permanent a temporary f...


Law Practice


The Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP estate claimed a crucial victory Tuesday after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn approved a $70 m...


Judicial Profile


Gerald C. Jessop

Oct. 11, 2012
By Pat Broderick

Gerald Jessop's long road to the bench began with him working in his family's jewelry store.


Environmental


A fight over a proposed Wal-Mart distribution center in Merced, which will be considered in a court hearing today, is raising ...


Perspective


Despite attempts to streamline the process, appellate courts have repeatedly demonstrated that lawyers and trial judges are of...


Perspective


The 2nd District held that encroachment or continuous use of another person's property is not required to establish an easeme...


Government


Facts are what really matter in Mirkarimi case

Oct. 10, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

The Board of Supervisors must understand, as did the Ethics Commission, that their decision will send a message to perpetrator...


Perspective


Some budget items are indisposable

Oct. 10, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

When preparing the state budget, most items are important. Some are absolutely essential, i.e., proper elections and a working...


Large Firms


Firm culture, a valuable asset when tended to

Oct. 10, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

Any firm model is capable of falling into that Dewey "perversion." That is the stuff of which notorious failure is born, not i...


An attorney at McGuireWoods LLP in Los Angeles is being sued for legal malpractice in Hawaii in connection with a settlement h...


Litigation


Hoping to placate a federal judge, Menlo Park-based Facebook Inc. offered to pay unhappy users $10 to settle a publicity right...


United States M&A activity rose 11.7 percent in the third quarter of 2012, but is down for the first three quarters of the...


Intellectual Property


New ITC rules will trim discovery, attorneys say

Oct. 10, 2012
By Hadley Robinson

New rules proposed by the International Trade Commission are expected to limit the costs and scope of discovery while giving j...


Judges and Judiciary


Some fear Riverside backlog could return

Oct. 10, 2012
By Katie Lucia

Riverside County Superior Court has come a long way from having one of the worst trial backlogs in California. However, with c...