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
US high court to hear arguments on race-based admissions policy
By Ben Armisteadn
The case challenges a university's use of race as one factor for admitting applicants to some of its undergraduate slots and p...
The Obama administration recently announced that immigrants who qualify for deferred status are not covered by Affordable Care...
The latest experiment cooked up in California's laboratory may just be the second largest carbon market in the world. By Willi...
Litigation
Judge pulls the plug on Ticketmaster class action settlement
By Brian Sumersn
Lawyers on both sides of a long-running class action between Ticketmaster and aggrieved consumers must go back to the drawing ...
Large Firms
Three attorneys join Crowell in health care practice group
By Ameera Buttn
Crowell & Moring LLP added three partners to its health care practice group in Los Angeles, in part to adapt to the nation...
The co-owner of the beauty salon where Orange County's worst mass murder occurred last year sued her insurance company Tuesday...
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
New State Bar building in Los Angeles will cost $50 million
By Don Debenedictisn
The State Bar will pay $50 million to buy a new headquarters building in downtown Los Angeles, mostly in cash. The deal could ...
Litigation
Phone and camera makers can pursue price-fixing claims, judge rules
By Saul Sugarman
Plaintiffs who sell products with liquid crystal display screens in phones and cameras notched a win Tuesday against several e...
Criminal
OC lawyer convicted of wire fraud sentenced to 37 months in federal prison
By Ben Adlin
Orange County attorney Stephen K. Chrysler was sentenced Tuesday to 37 months in federal prison for his role in an $8 million ...
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
Judges to hear arguments over "Who Wants to be a Millionaire"
By Jean Yung
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 counsels Penske Media on Variety buy
By David Ruiz
Jeffer Mangels, Butler & Mitchell LLP represented Penske Media Co. in the Tuesday announced acquisition of entertainment m...
Intellectual Property
Federal Circuit rehearing could redefine patent law
By Rachel Swan
A federal appeals court decided Tuesday to grapple again with whether some computerized business methods are patentable, a que...
Judges and Judiciary
Pending expiration of federal judgeship highlights lawmaker inaction
By Ben Adlin
Litigants could see their Central District cases slow even further if Congress fails to extend or make permanent a temporary f...
The Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP estate claimed a crucial victory Tuesday after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn approved a $70 m...
Gerald Jessop's long road to the bench began with him working in his family's jewelry store.
Environmental
Last-minute 'data dumping' an issue in Merced development fight
By Fiona Smith
A fight over a proposed Wal-Mart distribution center in Merced, which will be considered in a court hearing today, is raising ...
Despite attempts to streamline the process, appellate courts have repeatedly demonstrated that lawyers and trial judges are of...
The 2nd District held that encroachment or continuous use of another person's property is not required to establish an easeme...
The Board of Supervisors must understand, as did the Ethics Commission, that their decision will send a message to perpetrator...
When preparing the state budget, most items are important. Some are absolutely essential, i.e., proper elections and a working...
Any firm model is capable of falling into that Dewey "perversion." That is the stuff of which notorious failure is born, not i...
Litigation
McGuireWoods facing Hawaii malpractice suit over real estate settlement
By Brian Sumersn
An attorney at McGuireWoods LLP in Los Angeles is being sued for legal malpractice in Hawaii in connection with a settlement h...
Litigation
Facebook offers users a little money to settle class action
By Craig Andersonn
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
By Hadley Robinson
New rules proposed by the International Trade Commission are expected to limit the costs and scope of discovery while giving j...
Riverside County Superior Court has come a long way from having one of the worst trial backlogs in California. However, with c...