California Supreme Court
Trucking companies can be sued for misclassifying workers, state high court rules
By Laura Hautalan
The state Supreme Court unanimously held that state regulators can sue trucking companies for misclassifying their workers as ...
Solo and Small Firms
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power lawyer joins Glaser Weil
By Melanie Brisbon
Paul Brajevich is the firm's third addition to its government and regulatory group within the past eight months. ...
Intellectual Property
Rockstar suit against Google partner to stay in Texas, judge rules
By Kevin Lee
A patent infringement lawsuit filed by Rockstar Consortium US LP against a smartphone hardware partner of Google Inc. will rem...
Federal prosecutors are increasingly intercepting emails between incarcerated defendants and their counsel for "security" reas...
Litigation
Financial institutions to answer to judge in S&P discovery dispute
By Henry Meier
A federal judge has ordered half a dozen financial institutions to appear in court Tuesday to explain why they shouldn't have...
Juvenile court Judge Denise de Bellefeuille is dedicated to hope, caring and second chances.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Wilson, Goodwin team up for Trulia in sale to Zillow
By Salvador Mares
Preexisting ties between lawyers at Goodwin Procter LLP and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC guided their representatio...
Nicole Bershon compares her work as a site judge in Inglewood to that of a traffic controller.
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Director of IP and Litigation for Google Inc. Munich, Germany ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Judiciary tries to address dementia, mental health issues among its own
By John Roemer
The slow onset of declining mental health is a serious problem for the federal judiciary, where life tenure means an aging ben...
When U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney ruled that California's death penalty system is unconstitutional, he cited a 1995 law ...
Litigation
Unsettled law on recovering fees under anti-SLAPP statute
By Ben Armisteadn
The anti-SLAPP statute provides that a prevailing defendant is entitled to recover his or her attorney fees and costs but does...
The objective of this article and self-study test is to review the principles and recent case authority concerning the Fourth ...
California Courts of Appeal
Governor nominates his legal affairs secretary to appellate court bench
By John Roemer
Gov. Jerry Brown has nominated his legal affairs secretary, Jonathan K. Renner, to serve on the 3rd District Court of Appeal i...
Government
Deputy public defender tapped as commissioner in Ventura County
By Katie Lucia
Michele M. Castillo, a longtime Ventura County deputy public defender, has been selected to serve as a Superior Court commissi...
The San Francisco 49ers lost more than a shot at the Super Bowl to the Seattle Seahawks this year. They also lost a former gen...
O'Melveny, Gibson Dunn, Paul Hastings and others plan to donate legal services to the growing population of unaccompanied immi...
Environmental
Judge puts a halt to oil exploration near Pinnacles National Park
By Fiona Smith
A Monterey County judge has signaled he will block an oil company's bid to drill wells near Pinnacles National Park until it c...
A federal judge in Texas granted summary judgment of non-infringement in a patent case involving a group of technology defenda...
Los Angeles-based plaintiffs' firms McNicholas & McNicholas LLP and Perez & Caballero have sued the city for allegedly...
Declining to follow a local federal judge's surprise ruling, an Orange County Superior Court judge refused Friday to declare C...
As discussion on a comprehensive new copyright statute crawls forward, a major focal point will be the debate on whether limit...
Government
Lawmakers weigh string of major bills as legislative session winds down
By Paul Jones
This year, tort lawyers appear to be doing better than business interests in promoting bills that favor their side in litigati...
A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.
Gail A. O'Rane, a newcomer to Riverside's family law court, has a knack for relating to pro per parties.
Roger A. Luebs, who runs a juvenile court in Riverside, says it takes a village to help young offenders.
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Should partners from a dissolving firm be obligated to pay the dissolved firm's creditors from profits earned on work performe...
This article won't teach you anything about ethics you don't already know - unless you don't know it is unethical to bribe jud...
From left: McManis Faulkner partners Michele Corvi, William Faulkner and Michael Reedy at the 16th Annual Justice Edward A. Pa...