Web Exclusive - Web Exclusive - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a 10 percent reduction in drug reimbursme...
A federal court jury Thursday agreed with Mattel Inc. that one of its former designers created the concept for the successful ...
Drumming Up Business in a Down Market
The California Supreme Court Thursday dealt a blow to Pacific Lumber's logging plans for its vast forests in Humboldt County.
Los Angeles entertainment and real estate law firm Greenberg Glusker named a new leader of its litigation practice, Lee A. Dre...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
California Needs a Real Energy Policy, Not Regulators and Rhetoric
By Sara Libbyn
We deserve a real energy policy that recognizes that markets and contracts produce power. Regulators and rhetoric do not, writ...
A federal judge empaneled a jury of seven men and five women for the trial of attorney Terry N. Christensen and former celebri...
Former highway patrolman Edward H. Bullard traded his badge for a robe and now the sits on the bench in Santa Maria's Superior...
Plaintiffs' lawyers suing IndyMac Bancorp in a securities-fraud class action filed a motion Wednesday, asking a judge not to d...
Law Practice
In-House Counsel Group Asks: Is There Life Outside of Law?
By Rebecca U. Cho
An Association of Corporate Counsel event this month seeks to broaden the horizons of attorneys dissatisfied in their careers ...
The specific fact pattern necessary to trigger an insured's right to Cumis counsel and 2860's rate cap and arbitration provisi...
Blue Shield of California has illegally canceled the medical coverage of least 850 of its sick policyholders since 2002, accor...
The specific fact pattern necessary to trigger an insured's right to Cumis counsel and 2860's rate cap and arbitration provisi...
Amid filmdom's labor turmoil, former Screen Actors Guild general counsel David White is providing advice to lawyers with actor...
The California Supreme Court Wednesday refused to block a November ballot initiative aimed at overturning the court's landmark...
Critics say unproven and even false accusations would remain public for the duration of a case, a process that could last year...
John R. Epperson, special counsel at Farella Braun + Martel in San Francisco, was appointed to the executive committee of the ...
The trial for Terry N. Christensen is set to begin today with jury selection. Christensen is the sole lawyer charged in connec...
Reality TV workers brought their fight for better benefits and improved on-the-job conditions to San Francisco on Tuesday, and...
Corporate
Microsoft GC Upstages Google, Yahoo at Antitrust Hearing
By Lawrence Hurleyn
Congress joined the U.S. Justice Department Tuesday in examining antitrust concerns raised by an advertising deal between Goo...
As the state hammers out the details of its plan to combat climate change, a move to set a strict cap on greenhouse gas emissi...
To write well, one needs uninterrupted time. That is difficult to achieve in the e-mail era, writes Robert D. Brain - Forum Co...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Harsh Prison Terms Might Work Better Than Painless Executions
By Sara Libbyn
Faced with an increasingly painless death penalty and an increasingly harsh prison alternative, decision-makers in capital cas...
An umbrella policy can be an extremely valuable policy for an insured because it may fill gaps that otherwise exist in a prima...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Construction ADR Panel Picks Up 10 Neutrals With Merger
By Greg Katzn
Los Angeles construction and real estate ADR panel Arbitration Mediation Conciliation Center has beefed up its practice by mer...
Attorney General Jerry Brown's office usually works side-by-side with prosecutors defending criminal convictions on appeal. No...
President Abraham Lincoln - on trial for exceeding his Constitutional powers - was found not guilty earlier this month on all ...
Reed Smith snatched Fenwick & West's Sergio Garcia to be a partner in its San Francisco office. Previously, Garcia co-chai...
Deb Wald has news for Wisconsin's lesbian and gay couples planning to come to California to get hitched: You could face nine m...
California Supreme Court
High Court Ruling Could Make Public Projects Hard to Fund
By Laura Ernden
The California Supreme Court Monday made it harder for local governments to raise money for everything from preserving open sp...