For the third straight year, attorneys and staff at all nine national Best Best & Krieger LLP offices partnered with affil...
More than 50 people attended the southwestern regional Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) conference at Whittier La...
Judges and Judiciary
Ousted commissioner claims retaliation by Contra Costa County judges
By John Roemer
A former Contra Costa County court commissioner who claims local judges ganged up to fire her after she unsuccessfully challen...
Administrative/Regulatory
Attorney General lauches consumer privacy protection unit
By Ameera Buttn
California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Thursday the formation of a new unit aimed at protecting consumer and indi...
Judges and Judiciary
SF judge stops taking on externs as workload increases
By Saul Sugarman
Beginning in January, law-and-motion Judge Harold E. Kahn will no longer take on externs. ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday tapped agency veteran Michele Wein Layne to head its regional office in Los...
A former personal injury attorney-turned-neutral, Michael D. Ranahan mediates a significant number of "lemon law" cases that a...
Community News
Pro bono attorneys and volunteers honored for service
By Caitlin Johnson
Nearly 160 pro bono attorneys, board members, staff and community members gathered at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles on July 12 t...
Government
Homeowner’s Bill of Rights: a fairer foreclosure process for California
By Ben Armisteadn
As this legislation is the first of its kind in our nation, homeowners should anticipate a drastic change in how lenders pursu...
Trusts & Estates
Jury awards former deputy DA, wife in accident case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
A San Bernardino Count jury Thursday awarded former Los Angeles County deputy district attorney David Evans and his wife, also...
Keith C. Wetmore is stepping down from his post as chairman of Morrison & Foerster LLP this fall and will be replaced by N...
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved two California judicial nominees on Thursday, setting the pair up for possible confirm...
Community News
California’s top labor and employment attorneys honored in Los Angeles
By Caitlin Johnson
The Daily Journal held a reception Tuesday night to honor the leading labor and employment lawyers in California. Attorneys fr...
Random audits of several 2010 California judicial candidates - some now on the bench - reveal noncompliance with campaign fina...
As California debates renewing its film tax credit, one lesser known fact is that part of the subsidies never go to film proje...
In an unusual and particulary heated probate battle, a Riverside County judge barred an elderly couple's two adult daughters f...
Criminal
Cell phone privacy expectations don't always mesh with rulings
By Robert Iafolla
Recent UC Berkeley School of Law research found that a vast majority of Americans consider their cellphones to be private, rev...
General Counsel for RAND Corp. Santa Monica ...
Criminal
Cell phone privacy expectations donÂ’t always mesh with rulings
By Robert Iafolla
Recent UC Berkeley School of Law research found that a vast majority of Americans consider their cellphones to be private, rev...
The State Bar is demanding that 2,600 lawyers prove they completed their minimum continuing legal education requirement last y...
Individualized solutions are more likely to meet a child's need than a forced decision between various custody arrangements. B...
Perspective
Don’t sue the messenger: the limits of online tort liability
By Ben Armisteadn
Technology has blurred the line between facilitating access and creating content, but courts are slot to adapt. By Chris Chiou...
or many of us watching developments in China, the puzzle is whether Chinese firms and the overall economy exhibit innovative b...
Los Angeles-based Palmer, Lombardi & Donohue LLP has been hiring lawyers to handle all of the extra work needed to comply ...
Litigation
California lawyers help plaintiffs challenge Arizona sheriff's policies
By Hadley Robinson
An Arizona sheriff's efforts to crack down on illegal immigration will go before a federal judge today as Latino citizens and ...
Many attorneys have had to deal with a dropoff in work because of the real estate bust, and the market is still trying to reco...
David M. Robinson admitted stealing nearly $370,000 dollars from 11 clients and one employee between April 2007 and April 2010...
Three veteran business trial attorneys have formed a practice group at Clark & Trevithick aimed at aiding firms, accountin...
Litigation
Judge bars insurance company from increasing rates on certain customers
By Ben Adlin
A federal judge in San Francisco has barred Conseco Life Insurance Co. from increasing rates on 100 policyholders - part of a ...
Veteran white collar litigator Neal Stephens joins from Cooley LLP while emerging companies lawyer Greg Chin joins from Latham...