One member of the maligned Broadcom prosecution team quietly relocated to Washington, D.C. this week to take a position as dir...
Two Los Angeles city fire captains will receive $1.6 million in damages for being disproportionately disciplined after a prank...
Prominent sexual harassment attorney Philip Kay, who a State Bar judge found in December should be suspended from practicing l...
Unusual battle between industry giants opens this week over drug marketing. ...
Sharon Berman of Berbay Corp. explains what steps to take when assisting corporate counsel with risk management. ...
Assistant Federal Public Defender Harvey Gee asks why criminal law literature has consistently overlooked the role of Asian Am...
Judge Sam Ohta of the Los Angeles County Superior Court unravels the complexities of felony sentencing under the Determinate S...
Tanja Darrow and Jim Hart of Littler Mendelson explain how employers can prepare for and respond to emergency situations. ...
Judge Peter J. Polos cited court money problems, a restrictive judicial pension system, the decline in civil jury trials - and...
Prosecutors open their retrial of former Brocade chief executive Gregory L. Reyes today with a very different legal view of st...
Large Firms
Prominent White Collar Defender Leaves Crowell to Form Firm
By Rebecca U. Cho
A year and a half after Michael Lightfoot folded the white-collar shop he founded into Washington, D.C.-based Crowell & Mo...
Los Angeles County (Los Angeles) Superior Court Judge ...
Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Firefight at 9th Circuit Over Fake Purple-Heart-Wearing Witness
By John Roemer
Prominent defense attorney John W. Keker is a Marine veteran with a combat record that Elven Joe Swisher could only dream of. ...
The U.S. Department of Justice closed its antitrust investigation of the Internet search and advertising agreement between Mic...
The city of San Diego got a split decision from federal Judge Irma Gonzalez on its campaign financing rules. ...
San Diego-based CONNECT has opened a new office in Washington, D.C. and is now scouting for an advocate to lobby on behalf of ...
The California Supreme Court said judicial policymakers must look into accusations that some court reporters routinely overcha...
In another blow to Toyota Motor Corp., Congress subpoenaed documents a former company attorney claims prove the automaker conc...
Douglas E. Swager, a recently retired appellate justice who now works as a neutral, likens his mediation style to his hobby of...
Michael Newman of Barger & Wolen questions the consequences of applying a new, lax standard for federal courts to dismiss ...
Karen Borders of Borders McLaughlin says current processes and tools used by family courts to handle high risk cases are inade...
Deborah Stein of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett says the risks inherent in a digital society are not addressed by traditional ...
Tanja Darrow and Jim Hart of Littler Mendelson address employment issues confronting companies participating in multi-national...
Two back-to-back cases call into question Google's far-reaching dominance in the lucrative Internet space. ...
Could it be that 2009 was not the apocalypse for law firms everyone expected? As top firms have begun releasing financial resu...
A federal judge Thursday leaned toward postponing an upcoming trial for a closely watched case challenging the military's ban ...
A ruling by the California Supreme Court on Thursday will discourage the practice of forum shopping in California by plaintiff...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday named 11 judges to trial courts throughout the state and one associate justice to the C...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...