Latham & Watkins lawyers led by Menlo Park corporate partner Luke J. Bergstrom and associate Michelle Bushore helped Mount...
The Los Angeles County Bar Association announced Tuesday its ratings of candidates vying for judicial office in the upcoming e...
Two patent holding companies filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York accusing the Allied Security Trust and sev...
A January 2010 legislative change awarding some California prison inmates more custody credits so they will get out of prison ...
A dispute over tens of millions of dollars between actor Don Johnson and three companies with ownership interests in the telev...
Pipe manufacturer JM Eagle has asked a federal judge to dismiss a multi-million dollar whistleblower lawsuit that accuses the ...
CNET Networks Inc. founder Halsey Minor took the stand Tuesday in a case that pits him against auction house Christie's Inc. i...
As one of the largest female-owned family law firms in Southern California, Felicia Meyers of Meyer, Olson, Lowy & Meyers ...
It is unfortunate that so many articles disparage the experience of working at a global law firm, writes Kim Dunne of Sidley A...
Probate
Stranger in a Strange Land: Entering Trust and Estate Litigation
By Sharon Liangn
Civil litigators have many skills to serve them well in trust and estate litigation, but peculiar features of this practice ar...
Christine Ewell of the U.S. Attorney's Office reflects on her challenging career, fueld by luck and hard work, each in some me...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Storm Threatens 9th Circuit Nominee
By John Roemer
Before the Arizona immigration firestorm exploded, U.S. District Judge Mary Helen Murguia of Phoenix looked like a safe Obama ...
U.S. Supreme Court
Cross Case In Supreme Court Was Kagan's First-Ever Win
By Lawrence Hurleyn
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that a cross on federal land in the Mojave Desert could remain standing while low...
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, one of District Attorney Kamala Harris's fiercest critics, spared a few words of pr...
As a lifelong solo small firm lawyer, Nina Marino of Kaplan Marino gave up the comfort and security of a paycheck for control ...
Lawyers headed to trial regularly overestimate their chances of success, and men do so more than women, according to a new stu...
Read our annual list of the state's Top 100 Women Litigators.
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan knows exactly what to expect when she appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for...
Criticized over the leak of a "not qualified" rating given to Appellate Justice Charles Poochigian last summer, the State Bar ...
New York-based JPMorgan Chase & Co. has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that the bank unlawfully seizes money from custom...
California Courts of Appeal
The Question of Liability for Manufacturers of Non-Defective Products
By Carla Pinedan
Jules Zeman and William Martin of Haight Brown & Bonesteel examine the trend of courts favoring manufacturers of non-defec...
With Elena Kagan nominated to join the U.S. Supreme Court, the White House now has another plum post to fill: solicitor genera...
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Inspector General Nicole Bershon explains the mission of the Office of the Inspector General for the Los Angeles Police Commis...
Redevelopment agencies across California began submitting $1.7 billion in supplemental tax payments to the state on Monday aft...
The man who accused local transit officials of taking him off his job in retaliation for his testimony at an upcoming trial is...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
A Missed Opportunity in Class Certification Law
By Sharon Liangn
Randall Edwards and Patricia Hsue of O'Melveny & Myers say Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will likely lead to furthe...
JM Eagle, the nation's largest plastic pipe manufacturer, has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit in which six coun...
A Las Vegas prosecutor has filed criminal charges and an arrest warrant against Los Angeles film financier David Bergstein ove...