A state Court of Appeal on Wednesday sided with employees suing Home Depot for not providing seats, finding that the plaintiff...
Constitutional Law
The Court Keeps Faith With the Constitution: A Retrospective on Citizens United v. FEC
By Alexander Phersonn
One year later, the Citizens United case has not brought the flood of corporate spending on campaigns that its critics ...
The second-time drunken driver who killed young Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others was sentenced Wednesday to 51 year...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
New 9th Circuit Judge Confirmed
By Laura Ernden
Arizona judge Mary H. Murguia was confirmed Wednesday to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by a unanimous vote of the U.S....
Thomas Franklin, an intellectual-property attorney with a focus on clean technology at Townsend, was the first person in South...
Tucked within his final judgment in a high-profile challenge to the government's warrantless wiretapping program, Judge Vaughn...
Lawsuits seeking less than $200,000 in drug rebates could open the door to more lawsuits that eventually could cost pharmaceut...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed itself Wednesday and rejected a constitutional challenge to a Santa Barbara Cou...
Intellectual Property
MGA Faces Losing Legal Team in Bratz Fight
By Jason W. Armstrong
According to sources close to the case, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter said litigator Patricia Glaser could remain on the...
As county officials push efforts to open the juvenile dependency court system to public scrutiny, court veterans said the mai...
Goodwin, Brown, Gross & Lovelace, a civil law firm, will pay $458,790 to lease 3,519-square-feet of San Diego office space...
In recent months, the FDIC has aggressively sought the return of bank records from the former officers and directors of failed...
Corporate
For GCs Only: How to Go From Functional Specialist to Indispensable Business Partner
By Genevieve Knollen
Do you feel confined by your role as corporate counsel? Then read this! By Mark Goulston of Steele Partners and John Ullmen of...
Perspective
Five Tips for Turning Introductions Into Opportunities
By Genevieve Knollen
Tips for attorneys on how to leave a lasting impression. By Jonathan R. Fitzgarrald of Greenberg Glusker and Deborah Shames of...
Perspective
What Didn’t Happen in 2010 for California Wage-and-Hour Laws
By Seena Nikravann
In 2010, significant wage-and-hour cases have resulted in insignificant changes to or reaffirmation of existing law. By Joshu...
Environmental
Using the Courts to Fight Climate Change: Taking a Page From the Civil Rights Playbook
By Genevieve Knollen
Legislative gridlock means that courts must play a leading role in the battle against climate change. By Jennifer K. Berg. ...
A federal judge has denied the Walt Disney Co.'s post-trial motion seeking to overturn a verdict in a profit dispute involving...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Pharmaceutical Marketing: A Year of Interesting Times
By Karen Natividadn
New disclosure rules target conflicts of interests between drug providers and the industry. By Bryan A. Liang and Tim K. Macke...
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in Los Angeles, New York and Washington D.C., and Winston & Strawn in San Francisco as...
Unusual public-private partnership will replace crowded facility. ...
The state Supreme Court has recused itself from hearing a last-resort petition from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that seeks to l...
When it comes to holiday card trends, electronic is the new black. E-cards peppered clients' and contacts' email inboxes this ...
Venture capitalists say they're optimistic about venture investment in 2011. ...
Government regulation of the Internet that could jeopardize plans by major service providers to create first- and second-class...
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the government to pay $2.5 million in attorney fees in a case over the warrantless wiretapp...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed a U.S. International Trade Commission decision that several wireless chipmakers in...
A Northern District judge has closed off one line of attack that has allowed some non-English speaking borrowers to abandon th...
Federal prosecutors came up short Tuesday in their quest to prove that an art gallery owner linked to an international fugitiv...
A federal judge will set a hearing to determine how much in damages a lender owes a homeowner who lost home in foreclosure. ...
A Bay Area hedge fund and three former officers including its general counsel will pay more than $1 million to settle allegati...