A jury found Wells Fargo bank liable of racially discriminatory mortgage lending in 880 instances in a class action case, and ...
Perspective
Increase in Mergers and Acquisitions Signals Potential for Stronger Market
By Alexander Phersonn
The sagging start-up market could benefit from the recent uptick in mergers and acquisitions activity. By Jeremy Glaser of Min...
Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP represented a healthcare services nonprofit and a private education company in ex...
Criminal
Hitting It Out of the Park: How to Win the Barry Bonds Case
By Genevieve Knollen
Will Barry Bonds score a home run as he steps up to bat before the court on perjury charges? By Daniel A. Saunders and Nathan ...
Law Practice
Wal-Mart’s Diversity Efforts Are Reshaping Law Firm Structure
By Ben Adlin
In the wake of a new mandate by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., managing partners at many of the nation's top law firms find themselves ...
Compton Unified School District officials have been given an April 1 deadline to count signatures on a disputed petition to tu...
In a case that could impact California's massive public-sector workforce, a former police chief seeking to sue the government ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Health Reform Still Fuzzy to Business Owners
By Emma Gallegosn
A year after Congress passed health care reform, a key player in insuring the uninsured, small business owners, don't know abo...
Real Estate/Development
Redevelopment Litigation Faces Uncertainty
By Jason W. Armstrong
Lawyers are closely watching how Gov. Brown's proposed legislation to end redevelopment agencies will deal with the payment of...
A plaintiff in a malicious prosecution case has a shorter window to file suit if the defendant is an attorney, a state appella...
Screening films with a social justice message is one way law firms can reach out to the next generation. By Adam L. Stock of A...
A San Francisco Superior Court judge has issued a ruling that requires the state to do further study before moving forward wit...
Litigation
Judge Rejects Settlement Deal Over Google Library As Unfair to Publishers
By Erica E. Phillips
A federal judge has rejected a $125 million settlement deal between Mountain View-based Google Inc. and The Authors Guild and ...
Perspective
Empowering Female Attorneys: How Mentors and Role Models Can Help Close the Gender Gap
By Alexander Phersonn
Being an effective mentor is not easy, but the effort is vital for the success of female attorneys. By Wendy Behan of Casey Ge...
Conferences Tuesday brought law firm leaders and in-house counsel together to address the continued reality of women failing t...
The Daily Journal should do more to showcase the contributions of female lawyers. By Gay Grunfeld of Rosen, Bien & Galvan ...
Lawyers representing supposed victims of a real estate mogul charged with fraud are in hot water, facing allegations they dupl...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that an employee's spoken complaints, like written ones, are covered by anti-retaliation ...
The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community deserves more attention from the legal community. By J. Dominic Campodo...
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously allowed a securities fraud class-action suit against the drug maker Matrixx Initiatives Inc...
Perspective
Today’s Immigration Controversies, Through An Asian American Lens
By Alexander Phersonn
Our present-day immigration policies resemble those targeted at Asian Americans in the 19th century. By Karin Wang of the Asia...
Grocery chains' right to break union strikes using profit-sharing pacts came under renewed scrutiny Tuesday by the 9th U.S. Ci...
In a last ditch bid to avoid Gov. Jerry Brown's chopping block, California's redevelopment agencies offered to give up some fu...
With the operation of the California court system under increasing attack by legislators and a large group of judges, William ...
Redondo Beach's right to ban day laborers from standing on roadways to solicit work came under withering fire Monday at the 9t...
Hilary Rhonan, an informal juvenile court referee, intervenes in the lives of first-time offenders, usually without lawyers in...
General counsel for Directors Guild of America Los Angeles ...
A lawyer connected to an embattled immigration firm is told by court to stop misleading clients. ...
Morrison & Foerster LLP is advising Internet publishing service Shutterfly Inc. in its $333 million acquisition of Sunnyva...
A Northern District magistrate judge has ordered the FBI to allow third-party testing of bomb remnants from an unsolved case i...