General Counsel and Secretary for DreamWorks Animation SKG Glendale ...
Perspective
California’s Unemployment Rate: An Open Letter to Gov. Jerry Brown
By Alexander Phersonn
Some proposals the new governor should keep in mind if he wants to put California back on a path to prosperity. By Lonny Zilbe...
Reflections on the fate of public education. By Richard M. Mosk, a justice of the California Court of Appeal. ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Arbitration: A Look Back, a Look Ahead
By Karen Natividadn
Viability of class actions in consumer and employment cases remain uncertain in California. By H. Scott Leviant of Spiro Moss....
A case, now before the U.S. Supreme Court, carries broad implications for class action litigation. By Brian Kabateck and Karen...
When representing a student facing expulsion in disciplinary proceedings, every detail is crucial. By Julie Waterstone of Sout...
1935-2010 ...
San Diego County - with more American Indian reservations than any other county in the United States, each with its own custom...
Orange County will ask the U.S. Supreme Court this week to review a jury's $5 million verdict in 2007 against the county and a...
Teresa Caffese, the chief deputy in the San Francisco public defender's office, is resigning to return to the courtroom. ...
Cases spanned wide array of areas, including elder law. ...
According to the U.S. attorney's office in the Southern District of New York, from 2007 to 2009, consultant Karl Motey and oth...
Jury awards injured man $11.7 million in what's believed to be one of the biggest personal-injury verdicts in Marin County his...
The debate over cameras in courtrooms has heated up, with proponents saying courts must respond to public interest, and oppone...
2010 ended with the death of comprehensive patent reform and an inconclusive U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a major patent case....
Judges in the Central District of California in 2011 will consider rules establishing a standard procedure for each patent cas...
2010 was the year that patent litigators broke free from the Eastern District of Texas, a tiny spot on the globe where a grou...
Entertainment & Sports
Small Film Studios Say FCC Rules Fall Short
By Jean Luc Renault
Even as some business interests decried the new Internet regulations passed by the Federal Communications Commission last week...
The private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners announced Thursday that it will acquire Jo-Ann Stores Inc., the nationwid...
Financially struggling jurors are less sympathetic to personal-injury litigants. ...
General Counsel for Palomar Pomerado Health San Diego ...
In Howell v. Hamilton Meats & Provisions Inc., the state Supreme Court will revisit the collateral source rule. By ...
Inmate reduction is key to resolving the toxic conditions in Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles County. By Margaret Winter and ...
Judges choose to exonerate police officers involved in police abuse at the expense of our civil liberty. By Ben Rosenfeld. ...
Perspective
A Two-Pronged Strategy Is Key for Protecting Gay Rights
By Alexander Phersonn
The campaign for gay rights requires a hybrid political and legal approach. By Ari Waldman of California Western School of Law...
Read the article on peremptory challenges by Gale E. Kaneshiro and take the test that follows to earn MCLE credit. ...
Litigation
Batson Motions: Protecting the Right to a Fair and Impartial Jury
By Karen Natividadn
Batson motions aim to protect members of certain groups from discrimination in the jury selection process. By Gale E. K...
A federal judge has ordered that two long-detained immigrants with mental disabilities get legal representation. ...
The U.S. Senate has confirmed the nomination of U.S. District Judge Kathleen O'Malley of the Northern District of Ohio to the ...
A Santa Clara County Superior jury returned a verdict of nearly $800,000 this week in the first in a series of suits related t...