A federal judge in San Diego has given the class action firm Milberg LLP a clean bill of health after examining allegations th...
Areva D. Martin of Martin & Martin says cutting education cuts may be risky for state and school districts. ...
San Jose-based lawyer Robert Vantress has opened a litigation boutique aimed at making legal services affordable for small and...
Cynthia Sommer, convicted of murdering her Marine husband and then freed, filed a $20 million lawsuit against San Diego County...
Worker status as an employee or independent contractor is not simply a matter of contract. ...
A judge says a former Toyota lawyer may have client privilege when he accused the automaker of concealing evidence in rollover...
Rob Darwell, Edwin Komen and Thomas Leo of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton's roundup review and analysis of copyright ch...
Judith Posner and Zareh Jaltorossian of Reed Smith says an aggrieved party has options to maximize its chances of relief from ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Onerous Rent Control May Be a Taking
By John Roemer
A federal appeals court ruling that rent control may violate "Takings" Clause is likely to shake up laws controlling mobile ho...
A federal judge preliminarily approved a $118 million partial settlement in the Broadcom shareholder derivative litigation. ...
Robert S. Wada used to pour over documents behind the scenes as a probate attorney for the Los Angeles County Superior Court. ...
ACLU lawyer Peter J. Eliasberg never dreamed a dispute over a cross erected on federal land would be his first U.S. Supreme Co...
Earn on hour of MCLE credit by reading 'Update on DNA Evidence' by Hon. Mark E. Windham and answering the questions that follo...
Hon. Mark E. Windham examines the California Supreme Court's decision in People v. Nelson. ...
Robert R. Denham of The Conference Board Task Force presents five principles to assist companies in execution of their compens...
About 1,000 current and former Weight Watchers team leaders and location coordinators filed a class action claiming the weight...
Family
Prop. 8 Proponents Resist Disclosure Of Campaign Communications
By Rebecca Beyer
The parties battling over whether gays and lesbians have a right to marry are also battling over what kinds of materials they ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Vetting Commission Catches Heat For Rating Process
By Laura Ernden
For the second time in two months, a judicial confirmation hearing turned into a skewering of the State Bar's judge-vetting or...
Paul R. Kiesel of Kiesel Boucher & Larson reviews Bose's new noise canceling headphones. ...
Law firm hires new director of diversity. ...
Jonathan Drimmer and Christian Jordan of Steptoe & Johnson says the Foreign Practices Act has its eye on the entertainment...
In what's being called the largest settlement ever for a prisoner-employee, California prison authorities agreed this month to...
A desire to help criminal defendants in all aspects of their legal problems led three federal public defenders to form their o...
In 2007, Bruce Ledesma took over as general counsel of San Jose-based SunPower Corp., putting him at the legal helm of an ind...
LOS ANGELES - The Southern California chapter of CoreNet Global is accepting nominations for its Remmy Awards through Oct. 2. ...
Joel H. Mack and Mark T. Campopiano of Latham & Watkins expect rapid shifts in California's regulatory and legal landscape...
A casual e-mail between political consultants - contained in recently-released records of a bribery prosecution - speaks volum...
Law Practice
Federal Judge Seeking Bigger Paycheck Joins Girardi Firm
By Jason W. Armstrong
Federal Judge Stephen G. Larson, who earlier this month announced he was leaving the bench because of financial constraints, i...
Judge Christopher J. Warner's love of science first steered him toward a medical career. Now he enjoys hearing medical expert...
Judge Teresa Beaudet is known for being patient and meticulous. An English lit major, she compares reading cases to reading sh...