Perspective
Katie, Bar the Door: The Privilege to Resist Unlawful Police Conduct
By Karen Natividadn
Is there a right to reasonably resist unlawful entry by the police? By Michael C. McMahon ...
Blue Cross of California Inc. and Health Net of California Inc. owe millions of dollars in late and unpaid emergency medical b...
Crowell & Moring nabbed a health care litigation team from Epstein Becker & Green, led by William A. Helvestine. ...
A divided federal appeals court decided Wednesday to make it more difficult for defendants to prove inequitable conduct in pat...
A federal judge sided with Morgan Stanley this week in two separate lawsuits targeting the company's policy of requiring its e...
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Facing renewed scrutiny into doping allegations, Lance Armstrong has tapped pre-eminent law firm Keker & Van Nest to lead ...
Legal recruiters across the country are quietly celebrating last week's $1.9 million award to a legal recruiter over a fee dis...
Seeking to clear a backlog of litigation, a movement is afoot to coordinate asbestos lawsuits pending in Los Angeles, Orange a...
Over the objections of big business, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved Wednesday a controversial program to rewa...
Barry Kurtz APC moved its operations from one end of the San Fernando Valley to the other.
Google Inc. and Citigroup Inc. plan to invest a combined $110 million into a wind farm in southern California where the Mojave...
Commissioner Kenneth Pritchard combines a keen intellect and a folksy demeanor to preside over all manner of cases in the tiny...
Intellectual Property
What Does It Take to Sue a Patentee These Days?
By Genevieve Knollen
Patent holders now face a major jurisdictional hurdle in declaratory judgment cases. By Robert Harkins and Jennifer Ming of Se...
New York-based litigation firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP has been slowly, quietly building a presence in Southern Cali...
The state Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with how to calculate medical damages in personal injury cases in light of complex h...
Heading off consumer privacy lawsuits, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected an attempt to extend liabilit...
Jimmy L. Gutierrez, city attorney for Rialto and Chino, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of reckless driving after b...
Just three years ago, midsize Portland firm Bullivant Houser Bailey PC was reaching critical mass in California. Today, that e...
Insurance
Disputes Between Workers’ Compensation Insurers and Policyholders Belong in the Courts
By Karen Natividadn
Two recent appellate decisions clarify the issue of jurisdiction over competing claims of misrepresentation and insurance bad ...
Construction attorneys are watching to see whether their clients could be hit by new pollution suits if a proposed bill aimed ...
Bank of America has asked the U.S. judicial conference to consolidate all litigation related to Countrywide Financial's mortga...
In a narrow ruling involving the government's invocation of the states secrets privilege, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously t...
The beating of a San Francisco Giants fan in the Dodger Stadium parking lot has triggered a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Do...
Vice President and General Counsel for Rentech Inc. Los Angeles ...
Judge Aaron H. Katz credits his parents' emphasis on playing a healing role in society with leading him to give back from the ...
The effectiveness of automated response systems for takedown claims of copyrighted material. By Nick Solish ...
How commercial landlords can make or break their case. By Thomas Lombardi of Palmer, Lombardi & Donohue LLP ...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's former chief of staff, Susan P. Kennedy, joined Alston & Bird LLP Monday, bringing a deep kno...