Procrastinating on that year-end tax plan can cost you dearly.
Entertainment & Sports
Five important cases you should watch in 2012
By Genevieve Knollen
'Tis the season: Five entertainment cases to watch out for in the new year. By Ken Basin of Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman &a...
This year gives teeth to the Justice Department's vow to up the ante in FCPA enforcement. By Bethany Hengsbach of Sheppard Mul...
Ireland corporate law firm A&L Goodbody will open a new Silicon Valley office, the firm announced Wednesday.
Months after a coalition of solar manufacturers rose to challenge China's allegedly unfair solar industry subsidies, a new cad...
Zep Solar Inc. of San Rafael on Tuesday filed a patent infringement suit against Westinghouse Solar and several other companie...
San Francisco is moving forward with a plan to buy green power and create a large order of small-scale clean tech projects.
California Courts of Appeal
Panel orders disclosure in case involving execution drug
By Laura Ernden
A state appellate court Tuesday ordered the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to disclose the names of potential su...
Silicon Valley giant Google has made its first investment in large-scale photovoltaic solar, announcing Tuesday that it will p...
Toyota Motor Company faced a new lawsuit this week filed on behalf of an Iraq War Veteran who died in a fatal car crash in 201...
Redding sole practitioner Fredrick E. Clement has been appointed to the Eastern District bankruptcy bench, the 9th Circuit ann...
California workers are filing more workplace retaliation charges than ever with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a...
Oracle Corp. will likely have to wait until late next year for its patent and copyright infringement trial against Google Inc....
Victims in two Orange County criminal cases have filed suits demanding copies of police reports, witness statements and other ...
A little more than six months after a jury issued a $10 million malpractice verdict against Rutter, Hobbs & Davidoff Inc.,...
The House Judiciary Committee postponed Wednesday's hearing and expected vote on a controversial Internet piracy bill, giving ...
The executive program director for California's developing computerized case management system is stepping down at the end o...
The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a $295 million settlement of a class action that alleged South African diamond company...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Health care: the individual mandate and its critics
By Karen Natividadn
This January, the fate of the individual mandate will belong to the U.S. Supreme Court. By Timothy Sandefur of the Pacific Leg...
LBA Realty LLC bought four warehouses in Northern California totaling more than 1 million square feet.
Litigation
Diamond Foods accounting investigation generating a lot of work for California lawyers
By Jill Redhage
Trouble at San Francisco snack company Diamond Foods Inc. has meant an influx of litigation at Fenwick & West LLP and a ra...
Constitutional Law
Constitutional dilemmas raised by Occupy L.A. eviction
By Sharon Liangn
Was arresting the protestors a legitimate exercise of police power? By Shawn Khorrami and Alison Wilson of Khorrami Pollard &a...
Perspective
Is your financial institution ready for the new 'FIRM'?
By Genevieve Knollen
California passes a law requiring financial institutions to help collect delinquent taxes. By Stuart Simon and Daniel Wheeler ...
International
Franchise laws: What you should know before expanding internationally
By Karen Natividadn
Don't be fooled, running afoul of international franchise laws can carry severe consequences. By Susan Grueneberg and Joshua S...
A new wave of mobile applications created by legal professionals has made its way into the marketplace in an effort to streaml...
A Superior Court judge on Tuesday signed off on a settlement of a long-running insurance class action that could result in pla...
Judges and Judiciary
Bankruptcy judges named to Northern and Central districts
By John Roemer
Two California lawyers have been appointed bankruptcy judges for the Central and Northern Districts, the 9th U.S. Circuit Cour...
Randal I. Klein, a workers' compensation trial attorney and managing partner of Tobin Lucks LLP's Los Angeles office, died on ...
In the midst of a costly legal battle to outsource public employees, the city of Costa Mesa announced this week that it finish...
Borrowers and lenders find ways to adjust as the market continues to struggle. By John Easterbrook of the Silicon Valley Law G...