An ordained minister, turned judge, speaks out about how she fought against discrimination in the legal profession after comin...
Constitutional Law
California's treatment of out-of-state same-sex marriages
By Karen Natividadn
With New York to permit same-sex marriages, what legal effects will these marriages have in California? By Fred Silberberg of ...
Arm yourself with the tools needed to manage high conflict clients including how to, as a last resort, terminate such a relati...
The California Judges Association is urging the Judicial Council to make deeper cuts to the Administrative Office of the Court...
If Google Inc. loses an upcoming intellectual property infringement trial against Oracle Corp. over its use of the computer pr...
No ruling still from U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross on the Dodgers bankruptcy financing case. But after spending 10 hours i...
A former San Diego Councilman's efforts to overturn his bribery conviction on free speech grounds marks the latest attempt to ...
Hacking into someone's Facebook profile counts as identity theft, a state appellate court ruled late Thursday in a published o...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar committee recommends $2.8 million upgrade
By Amy Yarbroughn
The State Bar's Committee on Planning, Program Development and Budget is recommending nearly $2.8 million in upgrades and repa...
Schwartz Semerdjian Ballard & Cauley LLP, which counts cash-strapped public sector entities as clients, is willing to tigh...
Internet retailers prepare to square off over the "Amazon tax," which will collect a sales tax from customers in California. B...
Forty percent of Americans now surf the Internet while watching their favorite shows. As the indusry adapts, new multi-platfor...
More than 145 cities and counties passed laws that place quotas on real estate developers to ensure large projects included lo...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Transactions Lawyer Takes Helm of L.A. Bar
By Ciaran Mc Evoy
As the Los Angeles County Bar Association's first openly gay president, Eric A. Webber of Irell & Manella LLP hopes to enc...
More businesses may be caught unaware now that chemicals can be listed without meaningful scientific or public review. By Jim ...
Perspective
Accident or not? Insurance coverage for unintended consequences
By Karen Natividadn
Whether coverage is warranted for unintended injuries takes on an abstract approach. By Joan M. Cotkin of Nossaman ...
Two seemingly innocuous and straightforward rules of law converge to form a perplexing situation. By Bryan L. Hawkins of Allen...
A state appellate ruling prompts predictions of an uptick in consumer protection lawsuits against insurers. By Deborah L. Stei...
Perspective
Say-on-pay and lessons learned in the 2011 proxy season
By Genevieve Knollen
With the 2011 proxy season almost over, it's time for a recap on say-on-pay vote results. By James D. C. Barrall of Latham &am...
San Francisco's board of supervisors have voted to amend a controversial cellphone radiation law, but the changes may not be e...
Costa Mesa can't lay off city employees–at least not yet–an Orange County Superior Court judge has ruled. ...
A real estate investment trust bought five hotels - including two in California - for $195 million. Chatham Lodging Trust paid...
California will receive more checks from the Federal Trade Commission than any other state under a settlement with Countrywide...
The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation overpaid employee salaries and travel advances by millions of dollars, state ...
Musick Peeler, a California law firm with six offices throughout the state, has added four lawyers to its Orange County, Westl...
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP will soon have a snappy new moniker - Paul Hastings LLP. ...
Acting Oakland City Attorney Barbara J. Parker can remove "acting" from her title. ...
When a team of five M&A lawyers left Cooley LLP to join Dewey & LeBoeuff LLP's Palo Alto office two years ago, one of ...
Government
Obama taps openly gay man as federal judge in Central District
By Robert Iafolla
The Obama administration tapped Michael W. Fitzgerald to be a judge in California's Central District on Wednesday, marking the...
The Heller Ehrman estate came up short this week in its attempts to blame former shareholders now with Covington & Burling...