California Supreme Court
Liu gets high marks in advance of confirmation hearing
By Laura Ernden
Goodwin Liu is exceptionally well-qualified to join the state Supreme Court, the State Bar said Monday. ...
Judge Carlos E. Vazquez has presided over a variety of cases his first year, which is fine by him.
A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Immigration lawyers are waiting for the Obama administration's loosening of deportation rules announced earlier this month to ...
Commissioner Denise Motter made a midlife career change 20 years ago from IRS agent to lawyer.
Senior vice president and general counsel for Sharp HealthCare in San Diego ...
California Rule of Court 3.724 encourages expeditious resolution of e-discovery issues and reduces costs of litigation. By Ter...
Awarding fees to the "prevailing party" can be a complicated matter. By Gail Kavanagh of Sedgwick LLP and Nora Wetzel ...
Understand the most important features of plea bargains. By David Danielsen of the San Diego County Superior Court ...
Once considered a fringe practice, alternative commercial litigation funding is becoming more commonplace. By Jonathan Petrus ...
Although Northern District Chief Judge James Ware's efforts to videotape and broadcast the remainder of the Proposition 8 case...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Mental illness must be covered by insurance, panel holds
By Mandy Jacksonn
Patients who seek insurance coverage for mental health services won a major victory from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Intellectual Property
Palo Alto firm withdraws from Apple-Samsung case
By Craig Anderson
Bridges & Mavrakakis LLP, under fire by attorneys for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for an alleged conflict of interest in ...
A San Jose federal judge ruled Friday that San Francisco-based online game company Zynga Inc. can pursue copyright infringemen...
Juan Adilao Ortiz spent years waiting for a judge to rule on his petition for habeas corpus, despite the reporting system unde...
The National Labor Relations Board could deal another setback to companies looking to use an April U.S. Supreme Court decision...
State court leaders emerged from an edgier than usual meeting of the Judicial Council on Friday with few options on the table ...
Gentry was designed to preclude enforcement of the very kind of class action waiver found to be lawful in Concepcion...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
BraunHagey LLP has added Mark P. Fickes, a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission senior trial counsel, as partner in ...
Law Practice
Gibson Dunn snags high-profile Orange County corporate lawyer
By Casey Sullivan
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP snagged Michael E. Flynn from Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, adding him as a partner in ...
As Hollywood's awards season fast approaches, one of the industry's main events is embroiled in its own drama. Next month, the...
No case is too small for mediation in the eyes of retired judge Patricia Y. Cowett, a mediator with ADR Services Inc. in San D...
Deregulation of the legal profession would decrease costs and increase innovation in legal services. By Clifford Winston, Robe...
A 15-year-old is sentenced to six years in juvenile "boot camp" for an offense that would have cost an adult only two months. ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation: To fight or not to fight?
By Karen Natividadn
Mediation should not be another opportunity to show the other side how wrong they are. By Michael B. Orfield of PMA ...
Does it matter if law firms are misrepresenting their financial performance? By Edwin B. Reeser ...
California's restitution fund is under strain, leaving victims to recover on their own.By Julie Nauman of the Victim Compensat...
Litigation
Preservationists sue Riverside transit body
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
A land preservation group sued the Riverside County Transportation Commission to try to halt a planned extension of commuter t...