Corporate
Bratz Dolls Litigation Now Includes Allegations of Spying
By Jason W. Armstrong
Exposing what it called "stunning" new evidence, MGA Entertainment, Inc. late Monday accused rival toymaker Mattel, Inc. of sp...
You just nailed the bar exam and are ready to hang out your shingle. But how do you find the right clients? Learn about creati...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Circuit Judge ...
Charles Black, of counsel at Luce Forward in San Diego, is managing a proposed expansion of the San Diego Convention Center to...
The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Justice Department agreed Monday to hold off on high profile discharge proceedings against a decor...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced Monday it has filed a new challenge to the Obama administration's efforts to regulate g...
An Apple Inc. employee pleaded not guilty Monday to four felony counts for disclosing confidential company information and acc...
Perspective
Veterans in the Justice System: Treatment of Violent Offenders
By Carla Pinedan
Violent offenders make up one quarter of veterans entering the justice system, yet the course of treatment remains unclear, by...
Home Depot, which has tried for years to win approval to build a new big-box store on land that it owns in an unincorporated a...
An Orange County lawyer involved in the so-called "birther" movement failed Monday in her attempt to persuade the U.S. Supreme...
At what point do independent contractors become company employees who can sue their employers for sex discrimination? By Franc...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Arbitrating Probate Matters, Not as Unconventional as It Sounds
By Carla Pinedan
Arbitration for probate litigation can offer tailored service, a heightened level of confidentiality and prompt settlement, by...
A federal appeals court ordered prominent southern California defense lawyer Jeffrey Benice to turn over $238,000 in attorney ...
If you're disappointed with the amount of money a relative left you, but the will states you will forfeit your inheritance if ...
Members of the legal community have the power to change the misconception that underage drinking is a harmless rite of passage...
Legal filing deadlines are no joke. An attorney, whose paralegal failed to file a motion on time, learned this lesson the hard...
Letter to the Editor
Concerns Over Diversity in Mediation Offers Novel Solution
By Carla Pinedan
By Nancy L. Vanderlip of ITT Corp. ...
Ending a case Three Strikes critics called infamous, a homeless man serving a life sentence for attempting to steal food was o...
California's legal markets could be at the beginning of a slow uphill climb after bottoming out at the end of last year, accor...
As the fall recruiting season hits California law schools this month, law firms looking to hire next year's summer associate c...
Government
9th Circuit Grants Stay and Fast Tracks Appeal, Gay Marriage On Hold
By Rebecca Beyer
Gay couples cannot marry while the proponents of Proposition 8 appeal a federal judge's ruling striking down the same-sex marr...
Chinese solar company Solarfun Power Holdings Co. announced Aug. 9 that it entered into a strategic transaction with Hanwha Ch...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Chief Judge Blisters Judiciary
By John Roemer
As the 9th Circuit conference began in Maui, Chief Judge Alex Kozinski in a dissent accused federal judges of being overprivi...
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of Allergan Inc. Irvine ...
Presiding Judge Kevin Enright denied a request by a Chula Vista attorney who wants lawyers to be automatically informed about ...
For the first time in nearly a century, the Northern District of California has a female U.S. Attorney. ...
After only 28 minutes of deliberations, a Los Angeles federal jury last week returned a complete defense verdict in a $5 milli...
San Francisco's practice of providing preferential treatment for city contract awards based on race and gender faces the ultim...
Good news plaintiffs' bar: a recent state Supreme Court ruling on age discrimination raises the compliance standard for summar...
A man who claims to be a former FBI informant who infiltrated Orange County mosques will get one final opportunity to keep a l...