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Read our list of the state's Top 10 most innovative in-house lawyers of 2010. Plus, law firm leaders reach across the boardroo...
While Archer Norris' new Sacramento office at 301 University Ave. accommodates the firm's expansion into the regional market, ...
Perspective
Principles or Rules: What Is the Best Approach to Regulation?
By Carla Pinedan
Perhaps insight into drafting strategies will clarify the controversy over changes to our Rules of Professional Conduct, by Ro...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Electronic Evidence Rules Now Hobbling Prosecutors
By John Roemer
Overreaching by federal agents eager to nail steroid-using baseball players provoked new judge-written electronic evidence rul...
The Schwarzenegger administration Tuesday appealed an Alameda County judge's decision to temporarily bar new furloughs for sta...
Advocates for Faith and Freedom, a Christian legal group representing Imperial County, says it will appeal U.S. District Judge...
The companies sued a patent holding company that had been one of their most persistent legal adversaries. ...
Patients who take an enzyme replacement therapy the reduces the symptoms of the genetic disorder want the government to use a ...
A Fresno attorney "gambled and lost" with his client's employment discrimination case, a state appellate court ruled last week...
A potential class of gamers who claim they paid excessively high prices for interactive football games they bought from Electr...
Los Angeles County is seeking legislative changes to allow judges to become public defenders after a Superior Court judge foun...
The Screen Actors Guild has reached a tentative settlement with its members who accused the union in a lawsuit of withholding ...
of a U.S. judge's landmark ruling striking down a California ban on same-sex marriage. ...
Perspective
Cat Got Your Tongue: Public Agencies' Liability for Nondisclosure
By Carla Pinedan
Public agencies have a new test to protect against liability for nondisclosure of relevant information to bidders, by Randy Pa...
Perspective
Runaway Patent Damages Awards: Is Statutory Reform on the Way?
By Carla Pinedan
Hitting the "patent lottery" might become harder if Congress passes damages legislation with teeth, by Chris Marchese and Olga...
It's a safe bet that the 9th Circuit will expand the use of waiver to grant benefits to ERISA plan participants, by Robert J. ...
Perspective
Quasi-Judicial Immunity: Promoting Impartiality Without Sacrificing Accountability
By Carla Pinedan
Change is in the air for the application of quasi-judicial immunity, by Janet L. Everson and Bryan L. P. Saalfeld of Murphy Pe...
Technology could help the state's judicial system achieve more with less, by Sanford Jossen. ...
Wells Fargo & Co. must pay $203 million to California customers who paid fees based on the bank's policy of processing tra...
A false advertising dispute between California companies that make hyperbaric chambers could have unintended consequences: hig...
Congress approved legislation Tuesday that will prevent teacher layoffs and extend Medicaid payments to states, but the move c...
Jeffrey G. Bennett was a cop and a prosecutor before becoming a Ventura County judge. His laid-back surfer looks should not co...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Stem Cell Research Clears Regulatory, Legal Hurdles
By Mandy Jacksonn
Therapies using controversial embryonic stem cells that made paralyzed rats walk in lab tests now are one step closer to helpi...
Perspective
Watch What You Say: Discriminatory Comments in the Workplace
By Carla Pinedan
Careful, anything said in the workplace can and will be used against you. The state Supreme Court makes it harder for plaintif...
Less than a year after eBay Inc. sold a majority of its stake in real-time telecommunications service Skype A.G. to an investm...
Constitutional Law
'Will of the People' Irrelevant Under Federal Constitution
By Carla Pinedan
While the California Constitution allowed voters to ban same-sex marriage, the federal constitution is not as flexible, by M. ...
U.S. Supreme Court
Appointment For Solicitor General Not Expected Soon
By Lawrence Hurleyn
The White House is not likely to rush into appointing a permanent successor to Elena Kagan as solicitor general after her elev...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA Votes to Distinguish Error from Misconduct
By John Roemer
The group's 550-member house of delegates voted to urge trial and appellate judges to distinguish between "prosecutorial misco...