White-collar defense attorney Michael W. Fitzgerald sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee on a voice vote Thursday, pu...
GlaxoSmithKline PLC will spend $3 billion to resolve a federal investigation into off-label drug marketing and other alleged f...
While jurors once may have been willing to give recession-bitten companies the benefit of the doubt, experts say many have bec...
Entertainment & Sports
Will California take the lead in online gaming?
By Genevieve Knollen
The first guests to this party could reap the greatest rewards. By Mitchell A. Kamin and Jessie Kornberg of Bird, Marella, Box...
The issue of whether a letter of intent creates any legally enforceable obligations is not black-and-white. By Marshall P. Hor...
Perspective
Employee or independent contractor: One way of thinking it through
By Karen Natividadn
Figure out whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor before the government does it for you. By John McLachlan ...
Intellectual Property
Web hosts: Handle notices of infringement with care
By Seena Nikravann
Ignoring or improperly responding to a notice of infringement can cost a company millions. By Gene Folgo of McDermott Will &am...
Perspective
How gaming companies can protect innovation from litigation
By Karen Natividadn
For social gaming companies, internal disputes can have crippling effects. By Benedict Hur of Keker & Van Nest LLP ...
Some police and sheriff agencies say Twitter and Facebook are effective investigative tools but privacy advocates are crying f...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Obama taps Arizona justice to 9th Circuit
By John Roemer
President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated an Arizona Supreme Court justice to serve on the 9th Circuit. ...
A trial date has been set in a case that could determine whether Costa Mesa and other general law cities have authority to out...
After a few rocky years of bankruptcy and indebtedness, Irvine-based Freedom Communications Inc. has made a clean break after ...
Solar panel maker SunPower announced Wednesday it settled a lawsuit over the environmental impacts of its planned solar farm o...
A contract court reporter who vanished with his notes from a grand jury hearing in a closely watched San Francisco murder case...
Another prominent patent attorney has left a big law firm to take a position at Ovidian Group, an intellectual property busine...
In Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's efforts to play catchup with its fellow United States-based competitors that have more exp...
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has been retained to assist a sports and entertainment company with the formation o...
An Irvine lawyer who won a $43 million business fraud verdict in 2008 has joined forces with a small firm that includes a prac...
Two key orders this week in cases against UMG Recordings Inc. could drive thousands of musicians to file complaints of their o...
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court weighs reliability of eyewitness testimony
By Robertiafolla
The U.S. Supreme Court took up eyewitness identifications for the first time in three decades Wednesday to consider whether th...
Hot apartment market leads to $95 million multifamily sale in San Clemente An institutional investment fund sold a 368-unit Sa...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Final rule issued for accountable care organizations
By Sharon Liangn
The final rule strives to encourage greater ACO experimentation and program participation. By James F. Owens, Paul A. Gomez an...
California continues to spend taxpayer money on physically and mentally ill inmates, even though state law allows their releas...
Criminal
Medical marijuana: pitting state rights against federal power
By Karen Natividadn
The crack down on medical marijuana in California may redefine the limits of federal regulatory power. By Michael Chernis and ...