Administrative/Regulatory
Budget Drought Is Shaping Law Priorities In Sacramento
By Evelyn Larrubian
With the state's $21 billion budget shortfall expected to take the spotlight in 2010, the legislative agendas for law enforcem...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Third of five parts. Legal-aid programs are springing up around the country to assist homeless veterans like Michael Hurt, pic...
Family law specialist Mary Ann Grilli heads back to family court after two years as a probate judge.
Federal prosecutors have moved to disqualify Cooley Godward Kronish attorneys from the defense of former Brocade Communication...
San Francisco-based U.S. magistrate judge Edward M. Chen is one of six Obama administration nominees whose names were returned...
New Laws of 2010 ...
A divided San Francisco-based appellate court Monday sided with a judge who revoked a defendant's medical marijuana card as a ...
San Bernardino County Superior Court will have a new presiding judge Jan. 1: Judge Douglas M. Elwel. Judge James C. McGuire i...
A federal judge has granted summary judgment to several movie studios in their lawsuit against the operator of file-sharing We...
A Coronado cop who tasered from behind a man dressed only in boxer shorts must answer the man's civil lawsuit, a 9th U.S. Circ...
Ana Tagvoryan and Joshua Briones of DLA Piper delve into the largely uncharted territory of e-discovery and social networking ...
Richard Kellner and Karen Liao of Kabateck Brown Kellner ask why there have been so few class action arbitrations since Gentry...
Daniel Garrie of Alternative Resolution Centers provides guidance on maintaining effective information management for e-discov...
M.C. Sungaila of Horvitz & Levy says a landmark human rights decision against Mexico further defines women's rights and re...
It was an unprecedented year for the California courts, which for the first time in history shut their doors once a month to m...
Congress introduced a host of legislation during 2009 with the potential to impact the practice of the law on many fronts. But...
In the midst of a recession in which millions of Americans are struggling to keep up on credit card and mortgage debt, the fed...
Rochelle Spandorf of Davis Wright Tremaine examines California regulators' enforcement of franchise disclosure requirements. ...
Second of Five Parts. At 63, Ron Varela lives in his 1990 Toyota pickup and subsists on monthly stipends of $179 in food stamp...
Vice president and general counsel of Prime Healthcare Inc. Ontario ...
A federal appellate court has upheld a trial court decision ousting 16 people from the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians, which...
California Attorney General Jerry Brown will stay put - at least in his position as a defendant in the lawsuit challenging the...
Uncertainty characterized the deal climate this year for mergers and acquisitions, regardless of size. But that dubiety was mo...
Many of California's corporate lawyers agree that mergers and acquisitions will pick up in 2010, though they expect economic f...
When Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announced it was acquiring Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. for $26.3 billion, the ...
When a Korean shipbuilding company bought the German windpower subsidiary of a U.S. company this fall, it illustrated how fore...
Attorneys for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Latham & Watkins shepherded Genentech's sale to Roche for $46.8 bil...
As President Barack Obama's phantasmagoric plan to overhaul the nation's health care system nears a final vote in Congress, i...