Century City-based Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP has merged with Pruetz Law Group, the El Segundo in...
Digital royalties claims are beating against the music industry's major labels. Joining the choir this week, legendary 1960s r...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Compensation guru speaks of public interest role
By Susan Mcraen
Kenneth R. Feinberg has taken on some of the grimmest and thankless tasks in recent history, yet they were also some of the mo...
The U.S. Senate confirmed Alameda County Superior Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to the federal bench in the Northern Dist...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Former MoFo attorney sentenced in fake billing scheme
By Amy Yarbroughn
Despite objections by prosecutors who said the punishment was too light, a former Morrison & Foerster LLP attorney was sen...
Erika F. Rottenberg, general counsel for Mountain View-based social networking company LinkedIn Corp., is planning to sell off...
After nearly a decade, a law allowing municipal governments to compete with public utilities and develop their own power purch...
As counties begin to absorb a massive influx of state prisoners, local authorities say they've become especially concerned abo...
Despite being robbed in Richmond, Judge Joni T. Hiramoto is committed to serving there.
San Diego County's criminal justice community is mourning the death of Christine I. Trevino, a county prosecutor who died last...
O'Melveny & Myers LLP and former client MGA Entertainment settled their legal beef Tuesday over the law firm's claims that...
Ten months into serving as attorney general, Kamala Harris has staked a bold claim to consumer causes with a national platform...
The 5th District finds that "gratuitous write-offs" of medical bills are recoverable under the collateral source rule. By Will...
Perspective
California’s cap and trade regulations: Maybe there’s a future in cow flatulence after all
By Sharon Liangn
The greenhouse gas cap is real and will affect us all. By Malcolm C. Weiss and Ian M. Forrest of Hunton & Williams LLP ...
Perspective
Joe Paterno: legal requirements versus moral imperatives
By Genevieve Knollen
In court, much like life, you may be judged on your moral rather than legal obligations. By Mary Dollarhide of Paul Hastings L...
Intellectual Property
Patent reform provision already impacting litigation trends
By Craig Andersonn
A provision of the patent reform act that limits the number of defendants that can be tried in a single case already is having...
Criminal
Counties eye Riverside's pay-for-incarceration proposal
By Jason W. Armstrong
California counties struggling to find creative ways to come up with revenue in the battered economy are keeping a close eye o...
California has put on hold its 10 percent reduction in Medi-Cal reimbursements pending court review. ...
A former San Francisco Giants payroll manager pleaded guilty Monday in San Francisco federal court to embezzling $2.2 million ...
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court's decision to consider Medicaid expansion raises eyebrows
By Robert Iafolla
The U.S. Supreme Court's announcement that it will take up the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care law ...
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.