Judge Linda Colfax excels on the juvenile dependency court despite her heavy docket
A continuing recovery in key sectors of the California economy has contributed to a 4.7 percent rise in median general counsel...
Corporate
Lawyers reaping benefits of China's Los Angeles investment surge
By Andrew Mc Intyre
Last year's $250 million purchase of Los Angeles-based Riot Games Inc. by Shenzhen-based investment company Tencent Holdings L...
Interest in this memo intensified following a 2011 drone strike in Yemen that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen. By ...
Perspective
Ballot initiative to expand human trafficking definition
By Ben Armisteadn
Modeled in part after legislation in New York, Prop. 35 will expand the definition of human trafficking and increase prison se...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Drug database helps shield innocent physicians from 'doctor shoppers'
By Ben Armisteadn
It is important to take appropriate steps to avoid mistakes that can lead to overprescribing enforcement actions by the Medica...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Veteran 9th Circuit judge dies
By Laura Hautalan
Otto R. Skopil Jr., who served as a federal district judge and, since 1979, as a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal...
Morrison & Foerster LLP, a law firm that has garnered awards and acclaim for its pro bono efforts, has successfully levera...
Public Interest
Lawyers volunteer thousands of hours to defend prisoners' rights
By Henry Meier
In the wake of the ACLU's investigation last fall into conditions in Los Angeles County's jail system, more than 50 attorneys ...
Education
Law schools are becoming fashionable...in more ways than one
By Ameera Buttn
Far from being polar opposites, fashion and law go together like a hat and a pair of gloves. Now, they're about to head to the...
Intellectual Property
Emboldened by Federal Circuit ruling, Samsung attacks Apple's injunction motion
By Rachel Swan
Attorneys for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. are citing language in a successful appeals court ruling against Apple Inc. in one ...
Litigation
Graduates accuse law school of shredding documents, discovery abuse in suit
By Don Debenedictisn
Thomas Jefferson School of Law falsified its graduate employment figures and destroyed documents with accurate numbers, former...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Betty Binns Fletcher, liberal stalwart on 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has died
By John Roemer
Senior Circuit Judge Betty Binns Fletcher, a liberal lioness at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, died Monday night at a ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Del Norte DA defends himself against State Bar corruption charges
By Saul Sugarman
Del Norte County's district attorney took the stand in State Bar Court Monday to defend himself against seven corruption charg...
Days before assuming the leadership of the Administrative Office of the Courts, a retired superior court judge vowed to bring ...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP and its top litigator, Mark C. Holscher, have gone all in with their pro bono work on behalf of the c...
It's imperative to have policies that demarcate the boundary between professional and personal use of social media. By Julia E...
In a bid to further expand its reach, plaintiff's trial firm AlderLaw PC is opening an office in Orange County on November 1. ...
Litigation
Judge orders FBI to pay journalist's attorney fees over Reagan information requests
By Hadley Robinson
A federal judge ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to pay nearly half a million dollars to a journalist to cover the ...
Public Interest
With pro bono help, East Palo Alto agency seeks to help illegal immigrants
By David Ruiz
An organization in East Palo Alto, with the pro bono help of number of law firms in the area, is working to help illegal immig...
Constitutional Law
Federal judge strikes down California's political party recognition deadline
By Ben Adlin
Minor political parties won a major victory Friday with a federal court decision permanently barring the enforcement of state ...
Lawyers representing former Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP leaders claimed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court Friday that keeping litigator Hen...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
State Bar prosecutors play recording in Del Norte DA trial
By Saul Sugarman
Prosecutors in a State Bar corruption trial against Del Norte County District Attorney Jon M. Alexander on Friday played a rec...
Santa Monica attorney Christine D. Spagnoli has become the first woman to win the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angele...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit decides federal judges must follow restrictive immigration rules
By John Roemer
In a blow to illegal immigrants seeking legal residence status, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals en banc panel on Friday la...
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Kim Koopersmith as chairperson of the firm effective April 1, 2013. Koopersmi...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
A "technology-aware" mediator can expedite an agreement that allows both parties to maintain oversight of the keyword selectio...
Humboldt County (Eureka) ...