Despite a perceived slow start to appointing judges, data shows Gov. Jerry Brown is within reach of his predecessors' records....
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Confidentiality: red flags and the dangerous client
By Michael Leen
Under certain circumstances, lawyers have the option of revealing confidential client information. By Wendy L. Patrick of the ...
Perspective
Deleon v. Verizon Wireless provides guidance on commission advances
By Karen Natividadn
A Court of Appeal reaffirmed that employers may recover chargebacks against commission advances where the employee has not ear...
It is vitally important that the outcome of the JOBS Act not be the creation of a market that is so lax that fraudsters and ch...
Litigation
Judge orders Google and Oracle to identify journalists who were paid
By Michael Leen
Does the court have authority to request more information, such as the amount, the timing and the purpose? What about the atto...
With two rulings issued late Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney dismissed the bulk of a lawsuit accusing the Federa...
The FBI has arrested a Los Angeles federal court clerk and her husband for their alleged leaking of sealed documents to defend...
Hon. Ollie Marie-Victoire, the second woman to serve on the San Francisco County Superior Court bench, died Saturday at the a...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Silicon Valley lawyers bring in $3.3 billion Getty deal
By Kevin Lee
Silicon Valley-based lawyers from three law firms have their hands full with the $3.3 billion sale agreement of photography ag...
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates took a cut of the legal work in what could be the priciest going-p...
A suspended lawyer who let courts, partners, clients and opponents think he could still practice law should be disbarred, the ...
Criminal
Death penalty foes endure hits to cause in wake of recent crimes
By Henry Meier
After a strong start in their campaign to abolish the death penalty in California, supporters of Proposition 34 have seen publ...
Intellectual Property
Judge asks Apple, Samsung to settle patent case
By Saul Sugarman
U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh on Wednesday made a final plea for attorneys to settle a high-profile lawsuit between Apple In...
Long & Delis, a litigation firm specializing in business, construction, products liability and medical and legal malpracti...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar moves closer to buying LA headquarters
By Don Debenedictisn
A State Bar committee decides today whether to pursue formal negotiations to buy a new headquarters building in Los Angeles. ...
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