Spotify is facing a $150 million dollar class action brought by a musician who said the company is reproducing and distributin...
Law school deans say they have more opportunity than ever to pursue wide-scale reforms and new programs. ...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit vacates conviction over due process violation
By L.J. Williamson
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel vacated a defendant's post-deportation conviction for illegal reentry, holding that ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Disbarment recommended for bankruptcy lawyer who failed to pay sanctions
By Lyle Moran
A Los Angeles attorney who failed to pay and timely report nearly $90,000 in judicial sanctions has been recommended for disba...
Law Practice
In the velodrome, attorney learns lessons in life and law
By Melanie Brisbon
Gerald E. Agnew Jr. overcame an accident to resume his career in cycling, law ...
California Supreme Court
State high court rules on key environmental issues in 2015
By Fiona Smith
The state Supreme Court has also been tackling many environmental questions, looking at laws new and old this past year touchi...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Federal courts should consider juror analysis even if state appellate courts do not
By Saul Sugarman
When considering habeas petitions, federal courts should consider how jurors are selected at trial even if petitioners fail to...
Keker & Van Nest LLP attorneys helped unaccompanied minors gain asylum after fleeing from violence in South and Central Am...
Litigation
Chemerinsky to represent court in O.C. judge papering case
By America Hernandez
The right to deny peremptory challenges is on appeal by the Orange County district attorney's office. ...
With corruption surprisingly now in line with privacy and cybersecurity as a top concern for corporate legal departments, gene...
A judge gave a jury a permanent holiday on Thursday from rendering a verdict in a multimillion dollar age discrimination trial...
Earlier this year, intellectual property lawyer Sharre S. Lotfollahi steered the settlement in a practice area completely outs...
Criminal Justice in 2015: The Year In Review ...
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP attorney James N. Kramer likes the thrills of skiing remote mountains - even if he's af...
A $26 million inheritance settlement finalized this week concludes five years of litigation on a case of first impression in p...
2015 put legal hacking on the global map. ...
Criminal Justice in 2015: The Year In Review ...
Lawsuits filed by religious medical clinics across the state sustained heavy setbacks last week, with two federal judges and o...
Law Practice
Morrison & Foerster helps in fight to protect salmon in Muir Woods
By Fiona Smith
Firm helped seal an agreement sought by environmental group to limit pollution from roadside parking near the famous redwood g...
Litigation
Snepp jurors say they're deadlocked, ordered to deliberate Christmas Eve
By Matthew Blake
Jurors in Snepp age discrimination trial made progress Wednesday, judge says. ...
Corporate
Wilson Sonsini, Fenwick assist in digital storage company IPO filing
By Banks Albachn
San Jose-based Nutanix Inc. filed for a $200 million initial public offering late Tuesday with counsel from San Francisco Bay ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Ex-administrative law judge cleared of bar's disciplinary charges
By Lyle Moran
A former state administrative law judge has been exonerated of State Bar disciplinary charges brought seven years after the al...
Law Practice
Venable attorney spends Christmas Eve with foster youth
By Ashley Cullinsn
Christmas Eve is a night often spent with family, and for one Los Angeles attorney that family includes countless children in ...
Corporate
Andra B. Greene of Irell & Manella LLP uses yoga for stress relief in court and at the office.
By Amanda Schallert
Partner Andra B. Greene teaches yoga at firm's Newport Beach office to help staff and attorneys reduce stress. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Brown appoints judges in six counties and to appellate court
By Kevin Lee
Gov. Jerry Brown announced 14 judicial appointments Wednesday, highlighted by two additions to the state appellate courts. ...
Longtime professor and constitutional scholar David L. Faigman has been tapped to lead UC Hastings College of the Law on an in...
A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.
A Reed Smith LLP team helped the Animal Legal Defense Fund stop an event designed to recreate Pamplona's world famous running ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Judge selects arbitrator in Dunn case against Bar
By Lyle Moran
A retired federal judge has been tapped to arbitrate Joseph L. Dunn's case against the State Bar. ...
Entertainment & Sports
LA attorney by day, ballroom dancer by night
By Ashley Cullinsn
By day Jody Simon is a partner at Fox Rothschild LLP and chair of the firm's production practice; by night he's a competitive ...