California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court Will Review Award of $55 Million in Punitives
By Laura Ernden
Attorneys for Ford Motor Co. convinced the California Supreme Court Wednesday to reconsider an $82.6 million judgment against ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
With Online ADR Service, Carbon Is Also Neutral
By Greg Katzn
Jack A. Draper has the solution for lawyers worried about their carbon footprints: mediate online.
A longtime O'Melveny & Myers labor and employment partner has jumped to Jones Day.
Rachel Folberg put her law career on the line to testify in Sacramento against the appointment of her former boss, Robert A. J...
Superior Court Judge David. S. Wesley displays the same talents on the bench that he showed as a sandlot ballplayer - speed an...
Litigation
Former Pro Football Linebacker Settles Lawsuit for $5.5 Million
By Pat Broderick
A former San Diego Chargers linebacker, who contends that his football career was ended when he was shot by an off-duty police...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Blue Cross Settles With Hospitals Over Rescissions
By Evan George
The state's largest for-profit health insurer has agreed to pay $11.8 million to California hospitals for unpaid medical bills...
Out-of-state law firms remain keenly interested in acquiring or merging with California firms, consultants say. But statistics...
A rising tide of consumer disgust with "greenwashing" - false, deceptive or simply meaningless environmental marketing claims ...
U.S. District Judge Stephen G. Larson of Riverside is presiding over two high-profile cases, the business dispute over who own...
Judges and Judiciary
Commissioner Retires, Leaving Backlog of Undecided Cases
By Cortney Fieldingn
Superior Court officials are investigating how a former family law commissioner piled up 31 undecided cases before retiring, c...
Prison officials routinely deny crucial testing and treatments to the thousands of inmates who are infected with the hepatitis...
In creating "free speech zones" where protestors are confined to a particular, often isolated location, the government is miss...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
UC Schools Shouldn't Water Down Admissions Requirements
By Sara Libbyn
Rather than eliminate subject tests, UC schools should work with high schools to make sure that qualified students understand ...
Seyfarth Shaw grabs DLA Piper's labor and employment chair.
Howrey attorney Daniel Shvodian was on the legal team that seized on the Supreme Court’s “obviousness” test for patents to cha...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Bar Group Is Expected to OK Panel Mediator Fee Proposal
By Greg Katzn
The Conference of Delegates of California Bar Associations is expected this month to issue a recommendation endorsing a resolu...
Rather than confusing his eighth-grade students with abstractions about interpreting the Bill of Rights, a history teacher at ...
Lawyers should suck it up and face the music: Rock stars have much cooler jobs, writes Nora Quinn. - Forum Column ...
Finally, the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, following a comprehensive four-year study, agrees wi...
A new federal report has found immigration officials were not to blame for the deaths of two women held in detention centers, ...
Law Practice
'Game Over,' Judge Says of Efforts to Block Video Game Merger
By David Houstonn
A judge rebuffing shareholders' attempts to block approval of Santa Monica video game publisher Activision Inc.'s proposed $18...
The People's Republic of China is an attractive target market for foreign vendors that sell goods and services over the Intern...
Government
Plaintiffs Against Telecoms Say Immunity Won't End Wiretap Fight
By Lawrence Hurleyn
Although Congress is likely this week to grant retroactive immunity to phone companies that cooperated with the Bush administr...
During the time federal prosecutors say Anthony Pellicano was conducting wiretaps on orders from Terry N. Christensen, the not...
Steven M. Hanle and Jennifer A. Trusso have joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's Orange County office as partners ...
In a Q&A, PG&E General Counsel Hyun Park says, "At the end of the day you look at it from the perspective of what's mo...
From the ports to the desert to the ocean, this year the Daily Journal is focusing its Top 100 on California's legal leaders, ...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Families of Autistic Children, Insurers Battle Over Coverage
By Evan George
A labyrinth with no end is how one father described the dizzying process parents must maneuver to secure medical treatments fo...
A well-known court-system expert and longtime court executive in Northern California will become the Orange County Superior Co...