Like more than a hundred judges before him over the years, when former Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker found himself in a pickle ...
Carlo F. Van den Bosch and Robert D. Rose, two partners with Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, won a defense verdict ...
Dale E. Bonner, former secretary of business, transportation and housing under Gov. Schwarzenegger, jumped back into private p...
Stephen C. Ferruolo will be bringing with him a formidable combination of skills when he taks over as dean of the University o...
California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye named three new members to the judiciary's governing body Wednesday while also ma...
Continuing recent expansion efforts, Best Best & Krieger LLP, the Inland Empire's largest law firm, said Wednesday that it...
A state appellate panel appeared deeply divided Wednesday over whether State Bar exam records should be made public. ...
A roundup of real estate transactions around California and the lawyers who assisted on them.
Lawsuits against corporations for marking products with false patent numbers, which exploded onto the scene last year after a ...
Superior Court Judge Kern County(Bakersfield) ...
Privileged notes may no longer be confidential if a careless client reads them when testifying. By Richard La Fianza and Frank...
A list of objections to use sparingly, or not at all. By Richard C. Neal and Barbara A. Reeves Neal of JAMS ...
Intellectual Property
You Stole My Idea — Contract Claim or Just Copyright?
By Seena Nikravann
The 9th Circuit clarifies its position on copyright pre-emption of idea-theft claims. By Jens B. Koepke of Morris Polich &...
Insure yourself against the uninsured. By Kenneth Szeto Abiri & Szeto LLP ...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider the due process protections for suspects identified under "suggestive circum...
Legislation that would force out-of-state, online retailers to collect a use tax passed the California Assembly 47 to 16 Tuesd...
The lives and careers of the seven candidates for Los Angeles County district attorney have crossed at various paths, and the ...
South San Francisco-based biofuel company Solazyme Inc. raised $197.6 million in an initial public offering by attracting clea...
Less than four months after its trademark dilution lawsuit against Abercrombie & Fitch Trading Co. was revived by the 9th ...
The current tax laws provide estate planning attorneys with both a new exemption amount and portability. By Michael Burstein o...
The Orange County District Attorney's Office escaped sanctions Tuesday after being accused of hiding exculpatory evidence in a...
In a win for Silicon Valley firms fighting suits from patent trolls, the U.S. Supreme Court tightened the standard for proving...
A federal judge in Oakland dismissed key parts of U.S. Army veterans' case against the CIA and other government agencies claim...
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday that former Attorney General John D. Ashcroft is immune from a civil suit cla...
As a handful of California cities roll out programs to check workers' immigration status using the federal E-Verify program, c...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Panel Urges Online Deportation Appeals
By John Roemer
Federal immigration authorities should join the digital age and let people file deportation appeals electronically, the 9th U....
Kern County (Mojave and Lake Isabella) ...
More than a decade after digital music made its debut, recording artists and their labels are hashing out the distinction betw...
Chief Campus Counsel for UC San Diego San Diego ...
Superior Court Judge Kern County (Bakersfield) ...