Nearly all the part-time attorneys who lost their jobs over the past year were women, according to a survey released Monday by...
Jason Oei and Frank Loo of the San Bernardino County Public Defender's Office review the court's treatment of expert testimony...
Criminal
District Attorney Reports Possible Lab Errors in San Diego County
By Pat Broderick
San Diego County defense attorneys are being alerted by the district attorney's office about possibly incorrect lab test resul...
Personal Injury & Torts
Disney Is Accused of Dumping Toxic Water at Burbank Headquarters
By Jean Luc Renault
A federal judge has allowed a lawsuit to go to trial accusing the Walt Disney Co. of polluting the area around its Burbank lot...
Allan Ides of Loyola Law School says when it comes to civil rights, the Supreme Court tends to err on the side of the governme...
When Folger Levin opens its doors next week, it will be as much a new beginning as a return to form for the San Francisco bout...
Michael Durkee, David Blackwell and Thomas Tunny of Allen Matkins write on the future of agricultural and open space land cons...
U.S. Supreme Court
For Class Actions, It's All About Location, Location, Location
By Lawrence Hurleyn
When the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in a major class action case next month, trial lawyers in California will face a s...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Lawsuit Against State's Autism Policy Clears Hurdle
By Evan George
California regulators may have violated their own statute meant to protect consumers by writing an "underground regulation" be...
Land use lawyers at Armbruster, Goldsmith & Delvac bring together their decades of experience to form entitlement team tha...
John RogovinGeneral Counsel of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.— Burbank ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Racial Bias Found in Jury Selection
By John Roemer
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stood by its July decision that a prosecutor's racially motivated exclusion of blacks du...
Drought-stricken farmers in the western Central Valley launched another legal attack against the U.S. government to force it t...
A breach of contract suit filed against Brondell Inc. marks the second time the defunct Heller Ehrman has pursued a former cli...
Earn one hour of MCLE credit by reading 'Contractual Arbitration' by Sarah K. Hofstadter and answering the questions that foll...
Barry A. Pupkin of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey reflects on the announcement of possible revisions to the Horizontal Merger ...
RealNetworks lost Round 1 against Hollywood when a U.S. judge ordered it to stop selling its DVD-copying technology. The techn...
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Sarah K. Hofstadter of the 1st District Court of Appeal educates on judicial enforcement and review of contractual arbitration...
The first criminal trial to arise out of Broadcom's options scandal jumped to a venomous start Friday morning, with lawyers tr...
Timothy Canova of Chapman University School of Law says the current budget gap is the fourth deficit in California this past y...
A federal appeals panel dealt the first setback to patient advocates, who seemed on a roll against California's sweeping healt...
Over the rare dissent of one of its members, the Judicial Council has approved $97 million for computer case management-relate...
The cost-saving measure has some lawyers worried childrens' interest won't be served. Others say transparency and oversight is...
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...
Judith A. Vander Lans started out as a law firm receptionist but worked her way up to paralegal, associate, partner and fina...
A California woman and her husband filed a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court claiming the birth control pill Yaz caused h...
Brietta Clark of Loyola Law School maintains that if improving health care is top priority, disability insurance reform can't ...
Roderick Walston and Robert Sawyer of Best Best & Krieger present remedies for when the government reduces contracted-for ...
Whether or not Mike Carona's demotion of his lieutenant was political sour grapes, a federal judge decided Thursday that the c...