Homeowners looking to take advantage of long term loans from local governments to help pay for energy efficiency improvements ...
Criminal
Court brushes back ex-governors' effort to speed up executions
By Henry Meier
Pete Wilson and George Deukmejian want the state to use a one-drug method of execution that has not been approved by the U.S. ...
Panel didn't agree that a bank reached an oral agreement with Ted Stein to extend a loan on a development deal. ...
Summer associate Rebecca Simon shadows her father, managing principal Craig S. Simon at Berger Kahn ALC. ...
In a move that bolstered the firm's real estate practice, Shartsis Friese LLP hired on two partners from Morrison & Foerst...
His past two firms imploded. Can longtime intellectual property litigator Henry C. Bunsow have found his last stop at Bunsow D...
Part One of a five-part series. By Edwin B. Reeser ...
Judge Roland Candee says he adheres to the law, regardless of personal beliefs.
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Entertainment Studios Inc., a Los Angeles-based broadcast syndication company, named Mark P. DeVitre as its first general coun...
Judge Oswald Parada started out as a criminal defense attorney because he wanted to help people.
Two events in the past week have helped me conclude that arbitration is about to become very popular in California. By Michael...
The law has been shifting away from an objective standard for many years. By Joseph Sorrentino ...
Richard Jaffe's "Quest for Justice" is provides powerful insight for observers of and participants in America's criminal justi...
Health Care & Hospital Law
While partisan politics lay siege to the ACA, change takes hold
By Ben Armisteadn
Lines in the health care struggle are not clearly drawn, and as a result, each faction is forced to pay a price. By Craig B. G...
If such a law is to be enacted, I hope Congress makes it clear that its application is very narrow. By Joel Drum ...
Tiny patent boutique maintains global footprint by quickly marshaling contract lawyers when need arises ...
Government
Deal for Golden Gate bridge project closes
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
A $1.1 billion financing deal to improve access to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco - California's first public-private...
The union proposed to have its members work for free one day per month if the court would call off some layoffs set for today....
California's film tax credit program has propped up entertainment spending and jobs in the state, but its credit pool is still...
K&L Gates hired partners Ellen L. Darling and Brendan M. Ford and three associates from Snell & Wilmer LLP for its Or...
Apple is encountering the same problem experienced by other technology company plaintiffs in intellectual property cases: New ...
Would-be foster parents prevailed in a Sacramento County Superior Court case against the California Department of Social Servi...
A lawsuit just tossed out of the Central District underscores the conflict between wind energy project developers that arises ...
In an unusual argument, a medical marijuana advocacy group today will try to convince a judge to overturn a county ordinance l...
G3 Holistic Inc. in Upland is embroiled in a state Supreme Court battle over a city ordinance banning medical marijuana shops....
Local government agencies fighting off environmental lawsuits won a victory Thursday from the state Supreme Court, which ruled...