Commissioner Sharon Lewis Miller was a stay-at-home mom and a school teacher before going to law school. She says she brings a...
Some associates' pay at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis will have been reduced 40 percent, following a second r...
Brian Kabateck of Kabateck Brown Kellner asks, can you have your cake and eat it too when seeking class certification in the C...
A controversial 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to let five terror suspects sue over their claims of torture will b...
The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee signaled Tuesday that the GOP may block U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward M. C...
The Los Angeles County District Attorney has charged four lawyers with taking part in a massive auto insurance fraud ring that...
A Broadcom employee testified Tuesday that she warned the company's former CFO, who is now on trial, that backdating stock opt...
The Congressional Budget Office has found ending the antitrust exemptions for health care and medical malpractice insurance co...
The retrial of two former McKesson Corp. executives accused of securities fraud opened this week and will likely last through ...
California Courts of Appeal
New Year Brings New Rules for Appellate Lawyers
By Sharon Liangn
John Taylor Jr. of Horvitz & Levy summarizes select changes in the California Rules of Court, affecting civil appellate pr...
Anthony DiResta of Manatt address the reality, challenges and opportunities of the FTC Guides regulating social media. ...
Jose Allen, Kenneth Berlin, Don Frost Jr. and Stacy Kray of Skadden spotlight recent rulings in climate change litigation. ...
Reed Smith joined the march of law firms abandoning lockstep advancement of associates Tuesday when it announced a merit syste...
Judges and Judiciary
Curtain Rises On Legislative Inquiry Into Court Spending
By Evelyn Larrubian
Pressure continues to build on the Administrative Office of the Courts as it faces a Legislative committee hearing today on it...
The Administrative Office of the Courts' long-sought computer system - one of the most expensive in state history - is costing...
Successful trade secret misappropriation cases can bring huge payouts in the tens of millions of dollars, but only if you can ...
"You can't rely on speculation that a departing employee may use a trade secret," said Buchalter Nemer attorney Richard Darwin...
Jeremiah Ho of Whittier Law School looks at the phenomenon of hotel mortgage defaults and concept of a market reset. ...
Trial attorney G. Christopher Ritter instructs on a method of trial preparation that focuses on the dynamic of the jury. ...
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 ...