What to take under consideration when it comes to using qualified settlement funds. By David M. Higgins of Higgins Settlement ...
Enforcement of self-reporting rules would aid in the State Bar’s struggle with attorney misconduct. By Maurice Possley and Kat...
A San Francisco-based company that specializes in financing home solar installations announced the appointment of its first ge...
A Los Angeles County Superior Court pilot program using volunteer lawyers to help settle employment-related lawsuits garnered ...
Judges and Judiciary
L.A. court reveals plan to cull the ranks of commissioners, reporters
By Ciaran Mc Evoy
In response to gaping budget deficits and financial shortfalls, Los Angeles County Superior Court has requested as many as 30 ...
Veteran Los Angeles bankruptcy attorney Julie Wagner Brand will be sworn in as a judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Ce...
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved U.S. Magistrate Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo's nomination to the district co...
Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed two bills requiring individual and small group health plans to provide insurance coverage ...
Intellectual Property
Intellectual Ventures sues would-be Google acquisition in patent case
By Craig Andersonn
Intellectual Ventures LLC filed an infringement complaint Thursday against Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., accusing the mobil...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Pharmaceutical companies struggle to stay ahead of patent cliff
By Mandy Jacksonn
Biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies are executing plans to keep sales revenue from falling over the industry's so-calle...
Weeks of topsy-turvy stock markets have continued to take a toll on companies aspiring to go public. But two expected big deal...
Litigation
Facebook battles customers over its use of pictures in marketing
By Jill Redhage
A raft of class actions filed against Facebook is forcing several California judges to divine how publicity rights should exte...
A leader in strict environmental regulation, California is easing some of its rules to benefit another of its favorite causes:...
The U.S. Supreme Court considered Wednesday whether to allow the government to remove millions of creative works by foreign au...
Self-described 'old-fashioned' jurist Jacquelyn H. Duffy strives for consistency.
A reader responds to "Website accessibility for the disabled: a perfect storm" ...
Corporate
Change can cost you: Corporate defendants and venue selection
By Genevieve Knollen
A motion to change venue should never be used as a litigation tactic. By Ryan van Steenis of Huron law group ...
Real Estate/Development
Shame on California courts: Rubber-stamping foreclosures by corporations
By Karen Natividadn
California courts need to start ensuring that financial institutions have the right to foreclose on someone's home. By Mark F...
Arbitration is not trial in a different format - don't lose out on its advantages. By Neil R. Bardack of Hanson Bridgett LLP ...
Judges and Judiciary
A more inclusive and diverse judiciary serves California’s best interest
By Sharon Liangn
Assembly Bill 126, now on the governor's desk, seeks to create a diverse judiciary that will reflect state demographics. By As...
A federal jury convicted Saratoga lawyer David Boyer Prince of investment fraud Wednesday after a three-week trial. ...
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In a decision that could force municipalities across California to revise their medical marijuana laws, a state appellate cour...
Epstein Becker Green P.C. added three partners to the labor and employment and employee benefits practice group in Los Angeles...
Entertainment & Sports
Bill allowing heightened factory searches passes
By Erica E. Phillips
Among the slew of bills to escape Gov. Jerry Brown's veto pen this week was a narrow but key new law that seeks to snuff out u...
For Anthony Callobre, his new job as shareholder at Buchalter Nemer is a sweet homecoming. ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit allows inmate's case to proceed
By John Roemer
A stabbed and beaten jail inmate's civil suit against Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy D. Baca will go forward, the 9th U.S. C...
The Obama Administration has announced an effort to fast-track permitting of seven electric transmission line projects, part o...
The National Labor Relations Board moved Wednesday to postpone its requirement for businesses to tack-up a poster informing wo...
The Motion Picture Association of America Inc. named Henry Hoberman as its new senior executive vice president and global gene...