Mandatory arbitration clauses in employment agreements disproportionally favor employers, write Gay Crosthwait Grunfeld and Nu...
Employers with zero-tolerance policies against workplace violence could find themselves sued by an employee claiming self defe...
Developing countries need to be able to access green technology at relatively low transaction costs, write Bryan A. Liang and ...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Two years after regulators launched an investigation of New Century Financial Corp., the case has bogged down, while charges h...
Law Practice
First Amendment Advocates Up In Arms Over Court Recordings
By Evelyn Larrubian
Under a little known provision found deep in the 27-page court budget trailer bill signed into law last month, a court may now...
Law Practice
Pioneering Federal Judge Was a Fearless Defender of Equality
By Pat Alston
Robert M. Takasugi, the nation's first Japanese-American federal judge and a man whose childhood experience in a World War II ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Auditor: California Bar's Discipline Costs Rise While Inquires Decline
By Amy Yarbroughn
The State Bar needs to get a better handle on its money, including its rapidly growing discipline costs, according to a recent...
Where do United, Target, or other corporations with far-flung operations maintain their principal place of business? It depend...
Delaware has done a remarkable job in convincing out-of-state companies to forsake their headquarters' states and incorporate ...
A Senate bill declares that the Clean Water Act is intended to cover even small and intermittent streams, writes Norman A. Dup...
An appellate court recently validated the special relationship between project applicants and the agencies considering their p...
Judd Kessler debunks bad advice lawyers are given about running a practice in "Dangerous Law Practice Myths, Lies and Stupidit...
A West Hills attorney was arrested late Tuesday at a Century City law office and charged with obstructing a grand jury proceed...
The ink is barely dry on an order issued Tuesday by a panel of federal judges that the state of California come up with a plan...
Federal authorities are investigating Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar and former Los Angeles Unified School Board memb...
Saying California's prison system threatens public safety, a panel of three federal judges Tuesday ordered the state to come u...
Administrative/Regulatory
Democrats Are Finding a Lot to Like About States' Rights
By Robert Iafolla
Respecting states' rights and limiting federal government long ago emerged as a prominent theme in the Republican Party's poli...
The San Francisco city attorney's office, which filed a lawsuit last year on behalf of state residents against the National Ar...
Government
Orange County Puts Off Decision on Appeal of Deputies' Pension Ruling
By Don Debenedictisn
With city and county budgets and the state budget in turmoil, government lawyers have been waiting eagerly to find out whether...
Judges and Judiciary
Do Judges Make Law? Yes - Just Not at Their Confirmation
By Sara Libbyn
The myth that judges don't make law is soothing to the general public but entirely untrue, writes Matt Valenti. ...
The Medicare Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act creates significant challenges for liability and self insurers, writes Sharon C....
Philadelphia-based Blank Rome added bankruptcy capabilities to its fledgling Los Angeles office, grabbing Sara Chenetz from So...
Case law on how to assess patent false marking offenses is sparse, writes Michelle Porter. ...
The case of the "Myspace mom" proves every case is the product of human interaction and consequence, writes Robert D. Brain. ...
After investment in the clean technology sector tanked earlier this year, two reports released Tuesday spell good news for the...
California Courts of Appeal
Appeals Case Went On and On -- and Could Go On Some More
By Laura Ernden
After more than three years and two oral arguments, the 4th District Court of Appeal finally got to the bottom of a case about...
Law Practice
Federal Authorities Investigating Payments to LA City Councilman, Former School Board Member
By Evelyn Larrubian
Federal authorities are investigating Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar and former Los Angeles Unified School Board memb...
Judge Hector Ramon puts his childhood experience navigating arguments between seven siblings to good use in the courtroom. ...
David Wotherspoon and Katherine Gower ask: Does Canada deserve to be on par with India and China for trademark, patent and cop...