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...
Wells Fargo & Co. has agreed to pay $20 million to settle the claims of a nationwide class of mortgage consultants who all...
Law Practice
Trend Reversal: Class Action Waivers Not Always Unconscionable
By Carla Pinedan
Think that class action waivers aren't enforceable in California? Think again now that the U.S. Supreme Court has entered the ...
Do mandatory arbitration provisions in a residential development's covenants, conditions and restrictions actually constitute ...
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A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge has ordered Distict Attorney Steve Cooley's office to return assets seized last month on al...
A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday delayed sentencing for a former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney who...
One of the jurors involved in awarding a massive $677 million verdict to plaintiffs suing the nursing home chain is being targ...
Perspective
A Tax by Any Other Name: Constitutional Challenges to Revenue-Raising Schemes
By Carla Pinedan
How does the government raise revenues in a nation founded by tax objectors? By calling new levies "fees" to obscure their tru...
In a win for employers, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that workers can't sue to enforce a state law that protects ...
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali confirmed Heller Ehrman's liquidation plan Monday, triggering a major transition in the c...
Disbarred for nearly three years, former securities trial lawyer William S. Lerach proved Monday he hasn't lost the knack for ...
For San Francisco County Judge Andrew Cheng, a fan of Russian literature, contemplating the fairness of the criminal justice s...
San Francisco-based Genstar Capital LLC announced July 29 that it acquired Connecticut-based Evolution Benefits Inc.
As the proportion of obese Americans reaches historic highs, weight discrimination in the workplace is poised to become a burg...
Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants San Francisco ...
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California is seeking a 30-year sentence for a former U.S. Immigration ...
The American Bar Association is honoring the Santa Monica City Attorney's office for its work for focusing state and national ...
Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive officer and president Mark Hurd resigned Friday for violating the company's terms of busin...
Attorney General Jerry Brown and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told Northern District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker Friday that he...
Washington, D.C.-based Covington & Burling beefed up its presence in Silicon Valley by transferring three partners from it...
Jennifer R.S. Detjen was confirmed Friday as an associate justice of the Fresno-based 5th District Court of Appeal. ...
As the economic fallout in the legal industry brings attention to the emergence of small firm practices, it seems fitting that...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Republicans Hold Over Appointments
By Alexia Garamfalvin
With the U.S. Senate now in its summer recess, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Goodwin Liu and Northern District of ...
Hanson Bridgett is picking up 11 attorneys from Sacramento's McDonough Holland & Allen, which is currently in the process ...