U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court Increases Recovery of Costs
By John Roemer
In a decision that may affect what cases lawyers decide to file, a federal appellate panel held Thursday that some statutes le...
Daniel Kolkey of Gibson Dunn and Chuck Ragan of Huron Consulting Group say current discovery rules fail to fully appreciate wh...
The Los Angeles Urban Renewal Network, a coalition of local professionals seeking to revitalize under-served communities, host...
Dan Lawton concludes his story about how baseball changes when club owners sign on a lawyer-commissioner.
The California Supreme Court is taking up the issue of whether the governor has the power to furlough state workers in tough e...
Perspective
To Prevent Injustice, Los Angeles City Council Should Suspend Rent Increase
By Sharon Liangn
Betsy Handler and Greg Spiegel of the Inner City Law Center urge the Los Angeles City Council to temporarily suspend the July ...
Marin Superior Court judge Lynn Duryee reviews a collection of stories authored by Justice Arthur Gilbert of the Court of Appe...
California Supreme Court
State High Court Rules Against Workers While Defining Who Is an Employer
By Laura Ernden
For the first time in nearly a century, the California Supreme Court addressed an issue that seems basic to wage-and-hour law ...
The employment rate for 2009 law school graduates, at 88.3 percent, is the lowest it's been since the mid-1990s, according to ...
Partner Paul Sieben and associates Sofia Lou and Robert Liu represented Acclaim Games Inc. in the game developers' acquisition...
Mark Foster, a San Jose-based partner at Bergeson LLP, has been reappointed to a government committee that will advise U.S. Se...
Promises, promises. California's pension systems made plenty of them during flush times and now jurisdictions are struggling t...
A major geothermal energy project broke ground this week in Imperial County, made possible by a $400 million debt and equity f...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Lifts Donation Ban
By Pat Broderick
The city of San Diego has been handed a setback by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has lifted a stay banning politic...
Weekly wrap up of law firm moves and real estate related transactions.
California lawmakers are working to close a loophole in state law that protects "social hosts" who provide minors with alcohol...
The legal battle between a renowned cancer center and its doctors escalated this week, with the City of Hope Medical Center fi...
Dan Lawton imagines a time where baseball club owners sign on a lawyer-commissioner to negotiate deals, reform rules and tweak...
When a general counsel's negligence resulted in a $4 million default judgment against his company, California courts stepped i...
With the June primary just around the corner and no clear frontrunner in the state's attorney general's race, political analys...
To truly improve mining safety, mine owners as well as the board of directors must understand that it pays to emphasize safety...
Biotechnology companies going public this year know that to make money they have to spend money on lawyers and financial advis...
Maurice Possley of the Northern California Innocence Project reviews "Killing Time: An 18-year Odyssey from Death Row to Freed...
Coastal communities from San Diego to Santa Barbara are being put on notice: Either monitor and mitigate the environmental imp...
The heyday of easily landing plum, high-paying summer law jobs is over. But that may not be such a bad thing. That's the messa...
Richmond, Redwood City, the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and the East Bay Municipal District joined more than a dozen ot...
DLA Piper will open a new office in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 1, the firm announced Tuesday.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman raised associate salaries to pre-recession levels, with starting base pay again at $160,000 in...
An attorney for a coalition of news organizations sent a letter to Northern District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker Tuesday aski...