Trial attorney Jeffrey A. Tidus, who helped run the civil boutique firm Baute & Tidus in Los Angeles, was fatally shot out...
Lonny Zilberman of Wilson Turner Kosmo analyzes Roby v. McKesson's treatment of harassment claims and punitive damages....
Judges and Judiciary
Tough Times Aside, Court Administration Doles Out Raises, Perks
By Amy Yarbroughn
AOC says hefty raises, promotions and extra paid vacation to make up for furlough days was needed to hold on to valued employe...
Michael Young of Alston & Bird asks whether Roby v. McKesson is a victory for both employers and employees. ...
President George W. Bush appointed veteran Securities and Exchange Commission staff lawyer Elisse B. Walter to her dream job -...
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a landmark decision Monday that opens the door to far-reaching regulation of greenh...
Careers in the Navy and as a police officer have given Michael J. Cassidy a calm focus on the bench.
The Department of Energy announced revised rules Monday for its $60 billion loan guarantee program aimed at boosting clean tec...
Biopharmaceutical company Celgene announced plans Monday to acquire Gloucester Pharmaceuticals for up to $640 million. ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Irell, Skadden Advise on Met West Merger
By Christian Berthelsenn
The TCW Group will acquire Los Angeles-based Metropolitan West Asset Management, the companies said last week. ...
A small, rural San Joaquin Valley city has come under fire over what attorneys are rising water and wastewater rates, which ar...
Addressing a delicate separation of powers issue, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday weighed the constitutionality of a section of ...
Letter to the Editor
Litigation Survey is Rant Against Civil Justice System
By Sharon Liangn
Christopher Dolan, President of Consumer Attorneys of California, comments on a survey addressing California's litigation tren...
Theresa Lopez and Mark DeSouza of Crowell & Moring explain why knowledge of California's E-discovery Act is a time and mon...
The Senate rejected a Republican effort to cap attorneys' fees in medical malpractice cases when it voted down an amendment to...
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court To Review Hastings Dispute With Christian Group
By Lawrence Hurleyn
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review whether UC Hastings College of the Law can refuse to register a Ch...
Attorney and inventor Scott Harris addresses the inherent conflicts law firms face when prosecuting and litigating patent issu...
Alan Jampol of Jampol Zimet Skane & Wilcox examines stays of declaratory relief actions in the context of insurance covera...
Fresno County (Clovis) Superior Court Judge University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law ...
It took a couple of years and a long interval of silence, but on Monday the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a long-pe...
Instead of following its tradition of "once recused, always recused," the California Supreme Court has loosened its guidelines...
San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe made public its pay scale after abandoning its lockstep advancement for...
About a month after the Administrative Office of the Courts said it was considering taking court security away from sheriffs, ...
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that patent holding companies cannot avoid being sued by corporations even if they craft ...
U.S. Counsel James Wong of Chinney Capital asks whether the new U.S.-China concordance on climate change will breakthrough in ...
David Skinner of Meyers Nave comments on legislative action taken after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Kelo v. City o...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Look No Further for Guidance On International Arbitration
By Sharon Liangn
Justice Richard M. Mosk reviews the 5th edition of Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration, published by Oxford...
Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc.— San Diego ...
Attorney Richard Chrystie says operation costs would be cut if there were no jury trials for minor offenses and no requirement...
Defense attorneys are arguing that a high-profile judicial bribery case should be thrown out because prosecutors failed to pro...