Letter to the Editor
Au contraire, professor: Tough times bring out the best in judges
By Ben Armisteadn
By Judge Helios J. Hernandez of the Riverside County Superior Court ...
Perspective
Are hospital blood alcohol tests valid medical records?
By Michael Elliottn
Blood alcohol concentration results in a medical record, often times, have no evidentiary value in the context of civil litiga...
Many are critical of the usefulness of the AOC; small courts depend on it. By Richard Scheuler of Tehama County Superior Court...
SunEdison announced last week it had signed a $65 million loan agreement with North American Development Bank to develop a 20 ...
One of the most prominent bankruptcy attorneys at Stutman Treister & Glatt is leaving the Los Angeles boutique after 30 ye...
A Riverside County Superior Court judge ruled that the county didn't sufficiently analyze greenhouse gas emissions in approvin...
Personal injury case ends with $600,000 jury verdict, after insurer refuses to settle. ...
The tribe argues the wind project being development by Pattern Energy Group LP would irreparably harm archeological sites in t...
Entertainment & Sports
3-D company inks deal for China theater installations
By Jean Yung
Beverly-Hills-based 3-D technology company RealD Inc. has inked a deal to install its systems on 100 screens in theaters in Ch...
Litigation
Attorney ordered to pay $8 million over handling of case
By Don Debenedictisn
A Beverly Hills tax lawyer must pay the ex-wife of a top Fortune 500 executive nearly $8 million for taking millions from her ...
A federal judge has given two small political parties another chance to nominate presidential candidates for November’s genera...
The National Labor Relations Board named Mori Pam Rubin as its new regional director for much of Southern California, the age...
An intellectual property firm has asked the state Supreme Court to review an appellate court’s reversal of a $603 million jury...
Judges and Judiciary
Pair of Brown appointees are small firm employment lawyers
By Brian Sumersn
In news that reverberated through the plaintiffs' bar, employment lawyers Jeffrey K. Winikow and Virginia Keeny were named to ...
Seeking to capitalize on surging deal flow from China and emerging Asia, small law firms are finding the terrain can be inscru...
A state Senate committee formally confirmed Jayne Kim as the State Bar's top discipline prosecutor Wednesday. ...
Public Counsel and the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles joined mounting criticism of the voluminous environmental impact re...
In the wake of the 2007 merger that created Dewey & LeBoeuf, the new firm's leaders considered a traditional partnership m...
Intellectual Property
Keker wins defense verdict for Google on Oracle's patent claims
By Craig Andersonn
Google Inc. did not infringe two Java patents owned by Oracle Corp. , a federal jury concluded Wednesday in a verdict that was...
A newly constructed Whole Foods market and an adjoining apartment complex on the same Novato property secured financing as par...
Judges and Judiciary
Courts look at what's left to cut in light of latest budget proposal
By Saul Sugarman
After news broke of Gov. Jerry Brown 's proposed half billion dollar cut to the state's judiciary, the latest in a series of r...
A whistle-blower lawsuit that has entered its 16th year is once again raising questions about whether LA County transportation...
As one of the only government actions against mortgage bank officials headed for trial, the case of two former IndyMac Bancorp...
With less than six weeks until a new, autonomous criminal justice agency comes online, details are starting to emerge about wh...
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP are helping the Golden State Warriors navigate legal issues invo...
Hedge fund Paron Capital Management LLC won a $35 million verdict in Delaware Wednesday against a former employee. ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Jones Day, Gunderson Dettmer advise on $4.3 billion acquisition
By Craig Andersonn
Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP in Redwood City advised on another sale of a cloud computin...
Facebook Inc. has agreed to settle a would-be class action filed by plaintiffs who complained that the social networking site ...
Recent reports intensify concerns about the effectiveness of the whistleblower program. By Matthew Zandi of Steel Zandi ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit will not bypass panel in DOMA case
By John Roemer
The Obama administration's bid to speed the 9th Circuit's process in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Defense o...