The Beverly Hills Bar Association honored a pair of legal luminaries at the group's litigation awards dinner Feb. 19 at the Mo...
Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye announced Thursday that a Sonoma County Superior Court judge was selected for the positio...
Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP announced Thursday the election of Richard P. Waxman as the firm's new managing partner. ...
In a city where many residents dress casually for work, supervisors with San Francisco County Superior Court worry their emplo...
The San Fernando Valley Bar Association penned a resolution honoring former South African President Nelson Mandela, which repr...
More than 150 intellectual property attorneys and judges gathered at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
'Pillar of Hispanic community' suspended two years for mismanged trust account
By Don Debenedictisn
A Los Angeles lawyer who let his nonlawyer brother oversee his office and trust account should be suspended two years for inad...
When you hear lines like, "We the jury find the plaintiff guilty," it is hard to resist the urge to overnight a cease and desi...
Submitted just before the legislative deadline this month, two new bills show plaintiffs' attorneys and business interests see...
Litigation
Federal judge questions lawyers in major Google privacy class action
By Craig Andersonn
A federal judge Thursday grilled attorneys over how to ascertain who would be a member of a massive class of email users whose...
A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Washington, D.C.-based Patton Boggs LLP is in merger discussions with international firm Squires Sanders LLP, the firms confir...
Education
People using laptops for Bar Exam complain of software glitch
By Don Debenedictisn
About a dozen people using laptops to write the California Bar Exam have complained a software problem interfered with their a...
Reed Smith LLP this week became the latest firm to be dragged into the ongoing Howrey LLP bankruptcy case after the defunct fi...
Intellectual Property
Jury decides royalty rate in state's first-of-its-kind patent trial
By Kevin Lee
The patent licensing trial pitting Realtek Semiconductor Corp. against LSI Corp., the first dispute of its kind in California...
Criminal
Defense attorneys criticize Supreme Court ruling on warrantless searches
By Hamed Aleazizn
The nation's highest court's latest decision drew sharp rebuke from California criminal defense attorneys and privacy advocate...
Litigation
Judge tentatively sides with San Diego water authority in suit
By Fiona Smith
A judge has tentatively sided with the San Diego County Water Authority in a battle in which it accuses the Metropolitan Water...
A body dedicated to reducing prison population could forge much-needed reform to California's system, legal academics say. ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Kozinski blasts Google, orders company to take down anti-Muslim video
By John Roemer
Google Inc.'s refusal to honor an imperiled actress' pleas to take down an incendiary YouTube.com video drew harsh words Wedne...
U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton, who ruled in 1995 that California prison conditions violated the U.S. Constitution, i...
Personal Injury & Torts
Medical liens are on the rise among personal injury plaintiffs
By Omar Shamout
The California Supreme Court's three-year old decision in Howell v. Hamilton Meats has led many personal injury plaintiffs to ...
Perspective
Prisoner sex change latest flare in 'cruel and unusual' debate
By Ben Armisteadn
In recent decades, the high court has opined that inhumane prison conditions equal cruel and unusual punishment, and a slew of...
The bankruptcy court needs workable mechanisms to enforce the underlying spirit of the bankruptcy code. By Steven Gubner and M...
A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.
Government
Anti-hacking law needs further clarification, defense lawyers say
By Joshua Seboldn
Recent cases have led many defense attorneys to argue that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act needs to better define hacking, wo...
Technology & Science
Eye in the sky: privacy invasions from above
By Katharine Malonen
Ultimately, we will need a new set of social norms to govern our use of drones, where they can fly, and how much privacy we ca...
"Shadowy," "invisible,' "secretive" and "unregulated" are all terms that have been used in recent years to describe the data b...
Companies' increasing reliance on the collection and use of data to stay competitive has demanded that attorneys keep pace on ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit conservatives cry foul in another habeas case
By John Roemer
The left-leaning majority at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has the votes to reject en banc review of controversial pro...
Litigation
Federal claims against San Bernardino DA rejected in suicide case
By Katie Lucia
An unusual suit against District Attorney Michael Ramos and other county officials may play out in state court after the 9th U...