Littler Mendelson PC added Rebecca M. Aragon as shareholder. She will split her time between its Los Angeles and Century City ...
Litigation
Small business wins big verdict in pen marketing fraud case
By Ciaran Mcevoyn
A two-week civil trial featuring two Hollywood actors on the jury and a former state Supreme Court justice on the defense team...
U.S. Supreme Court
Review of immigration law could shed light on state rights
By Robert Iafolla
Even if the U.S. Supreme Court announces Monday that it will review Arizona's controversial immigration law, legal experts sai...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Blue Coat sold to private equity firm for $1.3 billion
By Robert Pierce
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP helped sell Sunnyvale-based Blue Coat Systems Inc. to private equit...
Airbnb Inc., a San Francisco-based vacation rental share service, recently hired its first general counsel.
The Mexican-American Bar Association and four other groups are expressing increasing frustration with Sen. Dianne Feinstein fo...
Giving the unemployed protected class status will cause more problems than it solves. By Janice P. Brown and Suzanne K. Roten ...
When the Riverside district attorney's office caught wind that Mowbray's Tree Service Inc. was making fraudulent workers' comp...
A Riverside litigator sued his former Van Nuys-based workers' compensation defense firm on Friday, claiming it enforced a mini...
Law Practice
Some law school graduates battle the odds and come out on top
By Don Debenedictisn
Law schools are under fire for their students' employment rates nine months after graduation, but some people who struggle in ...
Intellectual Property
Government faces setbacks in domain name seizure cases
By Craig Anderson
The battles over government seizure of domain names have taken different turns in two separate cases.
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial council to accept study showing need for more judgeships
By Laura Ernden
A two-year study measuring how long it takes judges to handle various types of court cases has identified a need for 345 new j...
Mediation could be the best environment for environmental law claims. By Cary Lowe of the National Conflict Resolution Center
Entertainment & Sports
Years after a strike, writer's guild owed money
By Brian Sumersn
Four years after the television writers settled a strike against entertainment studios, the Writers Guild of America, West is ...
Welcome to the new reality of family law in California. By Fred Silberberg of Silberberg & Ross
Citing unspecified personal reasons, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Carl J. West has announced his early retirement f...
State Bar & Bar Associations
In reorganization, State Bar employees take buyout or retire
By Don Debenedictisn
Today is the last day on the job for at least 5 percent of the State Bar's employees, who either have accepted a buyout or are...
Renewable energy projects on Native American tribal lands may begin accelerating soon, thanks to new rules proposed by the Uni...
A federal indictment accuses a former corporate partner at Nixon Peabody of altering documents to conceal misconduct by a clie...
The 9th Circuit speaks out about securities class certification. By William F. Sullivan, Peter Y. Cho and Timothy D. Reynolds ...
Law Practice
Sharpen your prose: Become a clear and convincing writer
By Karen Natividadn
For too long, legal writing has been riddled with redundancies. By Hirbod Rashidi of the University of California, Riverside
For the eighth year running, divorce lawyer Stacy D. Phillips invited 200 women leaders from the legal, financial, nonprofit, ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Health care systems settle overbilling charges
By Mandy Jacksonn
Two health care systems have settled allegations they overcharged Medicare for services.
Law Practice
High-speed rail hit with early lawsuits
By Jason W. Armstrong And Sean Win
California's highly controversial high-speed rail line is expected to generate years of work for land use lawyers, and it's al...
Longtime San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Tomar Mason has announced her retirement after 21 years on the bench.
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP is the most recent outfit that's announced plans to enter the economic and political...
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company has agreed to buy a 550-megawatt solar farm in San Luis Obispo County from Arizona-based s...
Entertainment & Sports
The Bowl Championship Series: It’s about power
By Genevieve Knollen
Academic values and student welfare are no longer priorities for the BCS bowl system. By Rodney K. Smith of Thomas Jefferson S...
As history proves, child labor laws are necessary to protect our kids and our future. By Joseph Sorrentino
Intellectual Property
Judge strikes some of Oracle's damages claims against Google
By Craig Anderson
A San Francisco federal judge continues to take a hard look at the damages report prepared by Oracle Corp.