In an effort to expand its private equity practice in Southern California, Jones Day snagged mergers and acquisitions and SEC ...
U.S. Supreme Court
High court mulls whether Santa Ana company can be sued
By Robert Iafolla
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over whether plaintiffs can sue a Santa Ana company for violating an anti-kickba...
Entertainment & Sports
Hollywood weighs how to screen casting staff
By Erica E. Phillips
After a successful casting director was discovered to be a convicted child molester, Hollywood studio lawyers are pondering ho...
A roundup of cases granted or denied for review by the U.S. Supreme Court
In a rare lateral hire, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP has plucked the chief of the criminal division in the San Diego U.S. at...
For such a tiny county, Del Norte's legal community has a lot of drama.
The chair of Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP's intellectual property practice group is decamping her firm after 17 years and...
A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Tension on high in ADA litigation
By John Roemer
A 9th Circuit ruling spotlights a battle that long has raged within the circuit among judges, lawyers, plaintiffs in wheelchai...
General Counsel for JM Eagle Los Angeles ...
A reader responds to "Senate committee approves new judgeships." ...
Patricia Sturdevant and Naomi Dewey of California Women Lawyers comment on the "Top 100 Lawyers" list. ...
U.S. asylum law should accommodate, not hinder, former child soldiers seeking our protection. By Leanne Heine ...
Perspective
Proposed juvenile court order subjects youth to more harm
By Sharon Liangn
This order circumvents the legislative process, contradicts current law and disregards privacy interests. By Maureen Pacheco o...
Search warrants - the last barrier between law enforcement and an individual's privacy. By Robert J. Schuit of the L.A. County...
Investors who sued subsidiaries of UBS AG accusing them of hiding mismanagement within a technology company have settled their...
Judges and Judiciary
Commissioners, court reporters take buyouts in L.A.
By Ciaran Mc Evoy
Nine court commissioners have agreed to take voluntary buyouts as part of Los Angeles County Superior Court's ongoing efforts ...
The U.S. Supreme Court hears argument today in a case that could rework standing requirements to effectively nullify a number...
A San Francisco elected official has introduced new legislation aimed at helping businesses avoid disability access suits by m...
A Virginia federal judge has ordered Verizon Communications Inc. to pay nearly $11 million per month in royalties to San Jose-...
Community activists opposed to the expansion of a waste handling facility in the San Fernando Valley saw a judge dismiss their...
In Sacramento, where relationships can prove key to getting things done, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye's friendship with t...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the State Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
James Lafferty, executive director of the local chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, is hopeful the Occupy movement sweeping...
Most federal judges do not take kindly to taking orders from litigants or lawyers. That may help explain why prosecutors saw t...
Holme Roberts & Owen LLP, a Denver-based 170-attorney global law firm with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, is in...
Micrel, Inc., a company that develops, manufactures and markets semiconductor devices, promoted Colin Sturt to vice president,...
Superior Court Judge Kern County (Bakersfield) ...
Frederick N. Wapner, son of the famous TV judge, said his father inspired him
The prediction that corporations would rush to add class-limiting language to employment agreements in the wake of a Supreme C...