A new decision holds that if parties have not made a written agreement to arbitrate, a forum selection clause will operate as ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Government water contracts must consider fish, 9th Circuit rules
By Fiona Smith
The federal government must look at how its long-term water delivery contracts could harm fish struggling to survive in the Sa...
Labor/Employment
Judge certifies class in 10-year-old overtime suit
By Chase Scheinbaum
A federal judge granted class certification to 200 employees of Chinese Daily News Inc. in a lawsuit in which the workers sued...
Carlton Fields Jorden Burt PA made its first foray onto the West Coast this week with the launch of a Los Angeles office. The ...
Lawmakers are considering a bill that would have death certificates reflect an individual's self-identified gender, part of a ...
Law Practice
Stutman Treister & Glatt to close its doors: sources
By Alexandra Schwappach
Stutman Treister & Glatt, a 66-year-old Los Angeles-based firm known for handling exclusively bankruptcy and corporate res...
Labor/Employment
No-poaching lawsuit looks headed to a large settlement
By Laura Hautalan
A huge antitrust class action against big name tech companies is likely to wind up soon with a settlement with a price tag tha...
With the job market improving slowly, Inland Empire firm leaders say they're facing an increasing exodus of talented lawyers ...
Litigation
Government relies on secret exception to block people from U.S., ruling reveals
By Hadley Robinson
A court ruling unsealed Tuesday in the case of a former Stanford University student barred from the United States revealed the...
A roundup of recent real estate deals and the attorneys involved.
San Francisco's new top financial regulator, Jina L. Choi, is one of several Securities and Exchange Commission regional direc...
The U.S. high court unanimously held that the Airline Deregulation Act can preempt even common law claims of breach of the imp...
GM's recall of millions of cars has prompted confusion about the impact of the company's 2009 bankruptcy on consumers' remedie...
Litigation
University of California wants slice of prostate cancer drug profits
By Saul Sugarman
A San Francisco County Superior Court lawsuit alleges pharmacy company Medivation Inc. screwed the University of California ou...
In a rare green light for a convicted killer's lawsuit against Ventura County authorities who put him on trial, a 9th U.S. Cir...
The court found Monday that four insurance companies were right to deny the claim filed by a bankruptcy trustee handling the d...
Administrative/Regulatory
Regulators more active in 2013, survey says
By Chase Scheinbaum
Despite leaner economic times, federal regulators appear to be mounting an increasing number of investigations and actions, ac...
Labor/Employment
State law may serve as substitute for employee class actions
By Emily Green
Ten years after the state Legislature empowered citizens to sue their bosses for labor violations as so-called private attorne...
New rules clarifying that bitcoin users must report capital gains from buying and selling bitcoins initially sparked concern a...
Perspective
For better or worse, it seems the estate tax is here to stay
By Ben Armisteadn
The last 13 years prove that Congress only acts on the estate tax in a crisis, and there is no crisis on the horizon. By Chadw...
Entering the U.S. starts the clock for many tax filing and compliance deadlines, one of which involves choosing which type of ...
Perspective
Can we trust the latest guidance on material participation?
By Ben Armisteadn
A court recently addressed whether a complex trust can materially participate in a real estate trade or business for purposes ...
Nonprofits considering the installation of solar power systems must take their property's tax exemption into account. By Ofer ...
Los Angeles-based public interest firm Bet Tzedek will begin searching for a new chief operating officer and president followi...
Public employers have a right to push the employee's portion of pension contributions onto workers, a San Bernardino County j...
Partners at enterprising American venture capital funds that scour overseas markets in search of new investment opportunities ...
Edwards Lifesciences Corp. obtained a preliminary sales ban against a line of artificial heart valves produced by Minnesota-ba...
The longtime Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. intellectual property attorney, the studio's go-to for trademark matters, died We...
A California and other states relax marijuana laws, legislators and enforcement officials are grappling with ways to better po...
State Bar & Bar Associations
A dozen lawyers are running for spots on State Bar board
By Don Debenedictisn
Current State Bar treasurer Heather L. Rosing might run for vice president in a few months - if she can win another term as a ...