California officials have proposed that the state take a gradual approach to greenhouse gas emissions allowance auctions in re...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Proposition 6's Answer to Safety Issues: Jail, Jail and More Jail
By Sara Libbyn
Proposition 6 is a “me first” money and power grab that would permanently enrich a narrow spectrum of the justice system, lite...
Congress may have opened a door for disability discrimination lawsuits that the U.S. Supreme Court had shut. Wednesday, lawmak...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Munger Partner to Head Women Lawyers Group
By Amanda Becker
Katherine M. Forster, a partner in the labor and employment department at Munger, Tolles & Olson, will be installed tonigh...
Patients who depend on state programs like Medi-Cal for medical care have the right to sue in federal court over funding cuts ...
A Heller Ehrman spokesman Wednesday confirmed the names of 11 intellectual property partners leaving the firm for Washington, ...
San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Mary Wiss, who will be sworn in next week as president of the California Judges Asso...
Munger, Tolles & Olson welcomes back an appellate attorney as of counsel.
The Northern District's third criminal stock options case took a detour Wednesday after a batch of documents was delivered lat...
A Bosnian refugee, who is married to Britain's wealthiest banker, has donated $4 million to the UCLA School of Law to create a...
Because the cost of eDiscovery can quickly outpace the actual value of the case, attorneys can no longer afford to play hide t...
Just a day after announcing its general counsel's retirement, Warner Bros. Entertainment chose a former FCC lawyer to fill its...
Law Practice
ACLU Wins Deal for Buddhist Temple in Orange County
By Alan Mittelstaedtn
After a two-year legal battle, a group of Buddhists will be able to build their temple in Garden Grove, under a deal with the ...
According to a lawsuit filed Tuesday on behalf of current and former employees of the L.A. Times, “Sam Zell’s illegal and irre...
This year, we are focusing on the lawyers and judges who, through their work, are shaping our future: what kind of air we will...
Biographies of the Top 100
The List of The Top 100
The Daily Journal publishes its 11th annual listing of the most influential legal leaders in the state.
Already scolded twice by the state's Commission on Judicial Performance, a San Diego County judge is in trouble again - this t...
A lawyer for some of the accused priests in the San Diego clergy abuse scandal is asking a judge to stop the review of key chu...
The San Diego district attorney's office is planning to file a motion to reconsider the disqualification of Judge Charles W. E...
Senior judges will have to share their courtrooms to save money, the U.S. Judicial Conference decided Tuesday.
While the scandals reported last week are particularly prurient and pathetic, they are not the first to poison the air at Bush...
Law Practice
Heller Confirms More Departures to Covington & Burling
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho
Alan H. Blankenheimer, a patent litigator in Heller Ehrman’s San Diego office, and several other San Diego partners in Heller’...
Alston & Bird has hired two new partners in the firm's intellectual property group.
The ongoing financial meltdown has prompted calls for stronger regulation. That may bring more business for attorneys working ...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Confusing Tax System Encourages Businesses to Move Jobs Elsewhere
By Sara Libbyn
What few economists and almost no ordinary Americans understand is that our own Internal Revenue Code actually encourages busi...
One of the longest-serving general counsel at a Hollywood studio, Warner Bros. Entertainment's John Schulman, announced Tuesda...
Justice Rick Sims, writing for a panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal, said California's practice of granting in-state tu...
TORRANCE - TA Associates Realty acquired a portfolio of 13 industrial properties from Storm Properties Inc. for more than $52 ...