An administrative law tribunal rarely approves compensation claims from former prisoners who say they were wrongfully imprison...
Like state worker furloughs before them, calls to roll back public employees' pension benefits are poised to trigger an avalan...
Former prosecutor Delbert Oros is known as a meticulous judge who fully researches his opinions and will catch the tiniest err...
Cumulus Media Inc. announced on Friday it agreed to acquire Citadel Broadcasting Corp. in a deal that would purchase all outst...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar's Top Cop Cutting Discipline Backlog
By Don Debenedictisn
Beset by backlogs and critics, the State Bar's new top prosecutor has launched new programs and new approaches to get tough on...
General counsel, senior vice president of organizational development, and corporate secretary for ResMed Inc. San Diego
With so much money in play, the video game industry is starting to see its share of litigation. By Mark P. Pifko of Baron &...
Health Care & Hospital Law
State Will Get $5.2 Million in Settlement
By Mandy Jacksonn
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced Thursday that California will receive more than $5.2 million of a $68....
It can take just one day to lose your right to appeal. By Margaret M. Grignon and Brandon W. Corbridge of Reed Smith. ...
Former city attorney and 2010 state attorney general hopeful Rocky Delgadillo has left his stead as counsel at Goodwin Procter...
Opinion or defamation? The recurring question continues with a lawsuit by the principal owner of the Washington Redskins. By M...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Lawyers Allege Genocide Case Fraud
By Ciaran Mc Evoy
Two California attorneys set up phony charities to defraud plaintiffs in a multimillion-dollar settlement for families of Arme...
Criminal defense lawyers must tell noncitizen clients about the deportation risk of a guilty plea, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Federal appellate judges have asked lawyers in a video game dispute with significant First Amendment issues to file briefs exp...
Perspective
When It Comes to Arbitration Agreements, Less Is More
By Alexander Phersonn
Employers should limit the terms of their arbitration agreements or risk losing the right to compel arbitration at all. By Dan...
Defense firms complain their plaintiff counterparts are double dipping when it comes to recovery in the still-massive load of ...
Three months into office, Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed dozens of people to various government jobs. But one position has gon...
The private investment consortium California First is suing the state in an attempt to complete its purchase of 24 state-owned...
On May 23, Donny Love Sr. is scheduled to go to trial for the May 4, 2008 early-morning pipe bombing that strewed shrapnel ove...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
State Will Get $5.2 Million in Settlement
By Don Debenedictisn
The State Bar late Friday asked the State Bar Court to put Michael T. Pines of Encinitas on involuntary inactive status.
Arnold & Porter LLP scooped up a patent litigation team of 13 former Howrey LLP lawyers, four of whom join the firm's Los ...
General counsel for 1-800-Dentist / Futuredontics, Inc. Los Angeles ...
Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Compton) ...
Four years after launching their employment law boutique, husband-and-wife team Linda and Woody Gulledge finally were able to ...
Judge Paul D. Fogel's appellate background has made him a meticulous questioner who out-details even the most exacting lawyers.
Robert E. May believes firmly that everyone deserves their day in court - or better yet, around his mediator's table. May has ...
More than 300 members of the legal community gathered to celebrate the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California’s ei...
By Ben Adlin Daily Journal Staff Writer Pepperdine University School of Law unveiled a commemorative portrait of form...
The newly named Japanese American Bar Association hosted an Installation and Awards Gala along with the Philippine American Ba...