Locke Lord LLP continued its expansion into California with the hiring of insurance regulatory attorney Elizabeth A. Tosaris a...
Century City-based Silver & Freedman APLC, a well-established and highly-respected business law firm, announced Monday tha...
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP led an international deal team for San Jose-based VeriFone Systems Inc. on its $818 million acquis...
Litigation
Attorney of the Year honors for lawyers who took on nursing home industry
By Amy Yarbroughn
A team of attorneys who took on the nursing home industry in a landmark case over staffing has won Consumer Attorneys of Calif...
California Supreme Court
Liu looks back on the legacy of his seat on the state Supreme Court
By Laura Ernden
State Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu spoke to the Consumer Attorneys of California on Saturday, focusing as much on the leg...
Federal prosecutors became ensnared in a rare standoff Monday with a district judge who rejected a plea agreement in the prose...
Washington D.C.-based McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP is now in ongoing merger negotiations with San Diego-based Luce Forward ...
Judge Ioana Petrou sought a seat on the bench to have a more active role in her community.
A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
A roundup of cases agreed to be reviewed by the high court.
Law Practice
Former partner can be sued for failing to disclose discipline proceedings
By Don Debenedictisn
A law firm can sue a former partner who didn't disclose he was about to be suspended from law practice when the partnership wa...
Labor/Employment
New employment legislation is about more than just credit reports and independent contractors
By Karen Natividadn
Going into effect in Jan. 1 2012, employers should review their policies to check for compliance. By George S. Howard Jr. of J...
Corporate
How advertising can be a source of inter-office conflict
By Genevieve Knollen
For a company's legal and marketing teams - advertising can be a source of contention. By Steve Atlee and Nicolas Jampol of Wi...
Intellectual Property
Overseas markets create debate over first sale doctrine
By Sharon Liangn
Debate over application of the first sale doctrine may reach the U.S. Supreme Court again. By Timothy J. Toohey and Keith M. G...
A California appellate court held Thursday that managers cannot be held personally liable for discriminating against members o...
For municipalities in trouble, filing for bankruptcy is no longer the only option. By Karol Denniston of Brownstein Hyatt Farb...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Private contractors help prosecutors combat health care fraud
By Mandy Jacksonn
As the government continues to crackdown on health care fraud, private contractors play an important role in separating out ho...
Real Estate/Development
Big mixed-use project clears another obstacle
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
An appellate panel has removed another hurdle for the second phase of one of the largest mixed-use developments in west Los An...
Bratz manufacturer MGA Entertainment Inc. is taking another stab at trying to make Mattel Inc. pay $3 billion in damages for a...
Realtors and housing experts say new federal requirements and a relentlessly sour housing market are making the routine stage ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Sale of EMI leaves record industry much smaller
By Robert Pierce
The $1.9 billion purchase of EMI Group's music business by Santa Monica-based Universal Music Group and its parent company Viv...
Washington D.C.-based McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP is now in ongoing merger negotiations with San Diego-based Luce Forward ...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear constitutional challenges to the new health care law. ...
Forfeiture cases are on the rise, both in California and nationwide, and legal observers say prosecutors are savvier than ever...
Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary for City National Bank Los Angeles ...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are using prosecutorial discretion erratically, despite a promise by the Ob...
Circuit Judge 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
Latham & Watkins LLP elected seven lawyers to partner and one to counsel in California.
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Judge Akemi Arakaki is the shortest ball player on her team and a rare public defender on the bench.