After vowing to get its money back for financing the legal expenses of its former chief executive and others, Brocade Communic...
Perspective
California Firms Make Strides Toward More Efficient Billing
By Sara Libbyn
Some big California firms actually seem to have gotten the message that they must be more efficient in their litigation manage...
It is time to remedy the terrible wrong the U.S. government perpetrated on the people of Vietnam through the use of Agent Oran...
If the Uniform Collaborative Law Act passes, attorneys should prepare for clients' piqued interest in the collaborative law pr...
On The Move
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Sends A Textual Message
By John Roemer
A federal trial judge in Oakland was wrong to toss a class action on behalf of people who received text messages on their cell...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Prosecutors Say Lawyer Slipped Back Into Crime
By Greg Katzn
An upstanding criminal defense attorney who turned his life around? Or a ne'er-do-well who couldn't leave his trouble with the...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
New Generation of Asbestos Trusts Encourages Double-Dipping
By Sara Libbyn
A new generation of asbestos trusts now tempts plaintiffs' lawyers to seek double recoveries, write Jacob C. Cohn and Joseph A...
Government
Despite Cutbacks, UC Irvine Law School Adds New Professors
By Don Debenedictisn
The new law school at UCI boosted its faculty by half with the announcement Friday that it had hired a group of seven highly d...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Logjam Persists In Eastern District Docket
By John Roemer
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California has been crushed by a wave of cases that even judges say has sp...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Lawsuit Accuses S.F. Hospital of Unfair Billing
By Evan George
San Francisco General Hospital has become the latest in a string of facilities accused of illegally 'balance billing' insured ...
A recent Supreme Court decision invites plaintiffs and prosecutors to up the stakes in a wide variety of cases by alleging RIC...
Judges and Judiciary
House Approves First Impeachment of a Federal Judge in 20 Years
By Robert Iafolla
For the first time in nearly 20 years, the House of Representatives impeached a federal judge for high crimes and misdemeanors...
The California Supreme Court ruled against the state's powerful teachers' unions Thursday, saying they aren't entitled to use ...
The U.S. Supreme Court held Thursday that allegations of age-based employer bias must meet a higher evidence standard than wha...
Bernard Wolfsdorf, who won asylum from South Africa, is a new leader for immigration lawyers.
A recent appellate case should remind lawyers that sometimes, adhering to formal statutory requirements is not optional, write...
Multinational companies should implement codes that set forth what behavior is unacceptable, writes Stephen J. Hirschfeld.
One of the biggest ticket items pending in the bankruptcy of San Francisco law firm Heller Ehrman has yet to be resolved: whet...
Law Practice
With End in Sight for Consent Decree, a Fragile Hope for Oversight
By Greg Katzn
As the Department of Justice and the City of Los Angeles seek to leave behind an eight-year consent decree, the police departm...
A sharply split U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that prison inmates have no constitutional right to review DNA evidence, mar...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Health Lawyers Look for Clues to Reform Effort's Winners, Losers
By Evan George
As health care reform jumped to life this week, with both Congressional hearings and appeals by President Barack Obama pushing...
Facebook Inc.'s multi-country litigation against German social networking site StudiVZ Ltd. for allegedly copying the look and...
For two California lawyers fighting to get federal employee benefits for their same-sex spouses, including 9th Circuit staff a...
The Legislative Budget Conference Committee officially signed off Tuesday on a plan that includes closing the state's courts o...
A Court of Appeal on Wednesday upheld a decades-old policy that bars Los Angeles police officers from acting as immigration ag...
The private company charged with providing protection at the nation's federal courts begun an internal investigation this week...
Law Practice
L.A. County Prosecutors' Union Must Restore Officer Elections, Judge Rules
By Greg Katzn
A Court of Appeal on Wednesday upheld a decades-old policy that bars Los Angeles police officers from acting as immigration ag...
While AIG has sparked public outrage for handing out millions in bonuses to its top executives, its insurance underwriters cla...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
No Benefits for Posthumously Conceived Child
By John Roemer
Can a child conceived in vitro with sperm extracted from a corpse receive Social Security benefits for being the surviving off...