The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether states are immune from claims for money damages made under a provisio...
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up a Los Angeles County deputies' challenge to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court...
Bruce Bennett is representing the Los Angeles Dodgers in its Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection case, filed in the District of D...
Litigation
Consumer Group Seeks Judge's Disqualification Over Settlement
By Evan Georgen
Smarting from a judge's comments impugning its integrity for objecting to a massive class-action settlement, Consumer Watchdog...
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt two law firms a defeat Monday when it decided not to inquire into the circumstances allowing for ...
Government
Audit Faults Finances at San Francisco County Superior Court
By Amy Yarbroughn
A state audit has faulted the San Francisco County Superior Court for doing a poor job of keeping track of its money and acco...
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday to hear a dispute over a legal avenue that generic-drug companies use to get their produ...
In a securities fraud case, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether the plaintiff's ran out of time to bring ...
In a sign of shifting litigation strategies, the Securities and Exchange Commission has increasingly targeted companies rather...
Entertainment & Sports
High Court Shoots Down Video Game Ban
By Erica E. Phillips And Robert Ia
Reaffirming its broad support of First Amendment protection, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a California law that would ha...
Pursuits off the bench help Commissioner Rocky Baio keep a level head in the courtroom
A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
The most controversial politician in San Francisco may be its public defender. ...
General Counsel for the Writers Guild of America, West Inc. Los Angeles ...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched a formal antitrust review of Google Inc.'s search and advertising business prac...
Litigation
US Supreme Court Issues Plaintiff-Friendly Class Action Decision
By Karen Natividadn
Don't underestimate the impact of Smith v. Bayer Corp., a recent class action decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. By St...
The playing field may be tilted toward the plaintiff, but a defendant can beat a meritless one-way fees claim. By Kurt A. Schl...
Perspective
Price of Anonymity May Be Rising in Political Fundraising
By Karen Natividadn
The Internal Revenue Service may soon levy a tax on anonymous individual contributors to political campaigns and committees. B...
Prompted by a request from the Commission on Judicial Performance, the attorney general's office is looking into the legality ...
Two pension funds filed a shareholder derivative lawsuit against executives and directors of Wells Fargo & Co., claiming t...
Citing ongoing budget negotiations, the Legislature has postponed Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye's June 30 state of the jud...
Construction of the state's the first major desalination plant, in Carlsbad, can move forward, a San Diego County Superior Cou...
A month after closing its San Francisco office, Skadden appears to have no regrets. ...
Michelle Ouellette, a partner with Best Best & Krieger LLP in Riverside, is grabbing the attention of legal experts for he...
Health Care & Hospital Law
GlaxoSmithKline Settles Substandard Drug Manufacturing Charges
By Jill Redhage
Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline LLC and its now-defunct subsidiary SB Pharmco Puerto Rico Inc. have agreed to pay $40.7...
Former Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP partner files another suit against his old firm. ...
Coming at a time of cuts in public services and reduced tax coffers, the city of Chula Vista has been hit with a class action ...
U.S. Supreme Court
Court Could Review Case Pitting Subpoenas Against Court Orders
By Robert Iafolla
Two law firms have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to protect documents produced in civil discovery from federal prosecutors who ...
A survey by the Association of Corporate Counsel shows that average salaries for Southern California in-house attorneys have g...
The San Diego-based firm known as Chapin Fitzgerald Sullivan LLP changed its name to Chapin Fitzgerald Sullivan & Bottini ...