It is time to treat the court as the third, adequately funded, co-equal branch of government. By Stephen N. Zack of the Americ...
In-house teams are utilizing social networks to beef up their employee ranks, not just for support staff but also for hiring l...
Richard J. "Chip" Lutton, Apple Inc.'s longtime chief patent counsel, will be leaving the company later this year as it battle...
Trial courts would see their budgets slashed by 15.2 percent in 2012-13 under a proposal adopted Wednesday by a group of trial...
A Los Angeles judge sided with the California Coastal Commission and ordered a Malibu property owner to stop blocking public a...
Plaintiffs' lawyers suing Toyota Motor Corp. for economic damages alleging vehicles lost value as a result of the unintended a...
The state Supreme Court, which has affirmed the governor's power to furlough state employees, agreed Wednesday to take up the ...
Real Estate/Development
Survey finds commercial property rates on rise
By Jason W. Armstrong
Despite sagging rental and occupancy rates, top-flight California commercial real estate values have been jumping for the past...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Ninth Circuit nominee sails through Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
By Robert Iafolla
Alaska Supreme Court Justice Morgan Christen sailed through her Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday on her nomination...
A federal immigration judge in San Francisco postponed for two years a ruling on whether a gay Venezuelan man will be allowed ...
A former AOC employee is suing the agency, claiming it violated whistleblower protection laws when it fired him. ...
A simple injunction issued by an Orange County Superior Court judge last week could have broad implications for California cit...
California Courts of Appeal
Ruling clears path for plaintiffs trying to skirt Concepcion
By Laura Ernden
A new state appellate court ruling appears to give plaintiffs a way around April's U.S. Supreme Court ruling in AT&T Mobil...
Judges and Judiciary
Orange County judge admonished for biased remarks
By Don Debenedictisn
The Commission on Judicial Performance publicly admonished Orange County Superior Court Judge Nancy A. Pollard on Wednesday fo...
Chesapeake Lodging Trust obtained a $130 million refinance loan under the guidance of Carol Weld of Hogan Lovells LLP .