As a young Los Angeles Police Department officer in 1968, I could not imagine the society I now live in as an old man. By Will...
California Supreme Court
LA school district argues property demands of charter upstarts before state high court
By Craig Andersonn
Longstanding tensions between the Los Angeles Unified School District and public charter schools came to a head in the state S...
Known for his efficiency and quick attentiveness to resolve cases, Superior Court Judge Owen L. Kwong will retire this March...
Solo and Small Firms
Small class action firm helped spark important change to NFL concussion settlement
By Don Debenedictisn
Capretz & Associates of Newport Beach objected that players from NFL Europe should not be shorted on benefits. The federal...
Litigation
Former in-house attorney's sexual harassment suit now in federal court
By Laura Hautalan
The former U.S. general counsel of iGate Technologies Inc. is pursuing a lawsuit against her former employer and a supervisor ...
In M&G Polymers USA LLC v. Tackett, decided last week, the U.S. Supreme Court finally got a case with the right fac...
Administrative/Regulatory
Plaintiffs' attorneys, judges aim to rein in demurrers
By Paul Jones
A first-of-its-kind California effort to curb the use of demurrers in civil cases is moving forward in Sacramento, as plaintif...
Government
Obama makes Decker nomination for Central District U.S. attorney official
By Henry Meier
The White House announced Wednesday that Eileen M. Decker, the Los Angeles deputy mayor in charge of public safety and counter...
A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.
Irvine-based Terra Tech Corp. became the first company squarely in the business of growing marijuana to publicly register to t...
Litigation
Severance is not the dirty word the high court thinks it is
By Ben Armisteadn
Applying for a severance order does not accomplish what many attorneys think it does. Most misuse the term "severance" to desc...
Strategic, concise, focused and actionable advice forms the most valuable basis, and strongest foundation, for any relationshi...
Taking a writ was thought to be the only way to challenge a voluntary dismissal, but sometimes opinions take wrong turns. By G...
Judges and Judiciary
Justice's retirement a bittersweet moment for appellate court
By Deirdre Newmann
Associate Justice Betty A. Richli, a long-time judge for the District Court of Appeal in Riverside, is retiring, the presiding...
Litigation
Appellate panel hears argument in case over lead in baby food, canned fruit
By Fiona Smith
In a closely watched Prop. 65 case, major food companies are fighting claims that they failed to warn the public about lead in...
Judge Rolf M. Treu ruled the law firm can recover trial costs for the landmark case decided last summer that argued five educ...
A group of caddies sued PGA Tour Inc. Tuesday for requiring them to wear corporate logos during televised golf tournaments wit...
Litigation
Judge orders prison officials to stop putting disabled inmates in solitary
By Emily Green
Saying the state failed to live up to its promise to move disabled prison inmates out of solitary confinement, an Oakland fede...
Entertainment & Sports
Quietly, networks erect roadblock to Comcast-Time Warner merger
By Matthew Blaken
Broadcast giants CBS, Disney, Fox and Viacom are petitioning the DC Circuit in an effort to resist divulging their contract ag...
U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District is known for early hours, bold rulings.
As the number of California breweries skyrockets and competition intensifies, disputes over trademarks that were once handled ...
Executive Vice President of Business Affairs and General Counsel Paradigm Talent Agency Beverly Hills ...
Let's all shed a tear for the board of the bar / We didn't know how much they cared / When they told Joe Dunn he was done / (p...
The defenders of traditional marriage in the current same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court can focus solely on...
Mobility. Convenience. Anonymity. These call signs of the digital age are pervasive in our daily lives, and have been successf...
Last year the U.S. achieved a goal long considered unapproachable: It surpassed Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world's ...
The Supreme Court's decision in Teva Pharmaceuticals v. Sandoz restores the fundamental juridical principle that appellate cou...
If the U.S. and the UK are two countries separated by a common language, Europe is a common market separated by 28 languages. ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Judges can hear some cases they formerly prosecuted: ethics opinion
By Don Debenedictisn
Former district attorneys now on the bench don't have to disqualify themselves from hearing criminal cases in which they previ...
After nearly 20 years at Jones Day, former partner Philip E. Cook hung up his own shingle in downtown Los Angeles. The Cook La...