Government
Immigration fraud, attorney discipline among issues weighed by bar trustees
By Don De Benedictis
At a State Bar meeting last week, trustees vowed to support a bill that would impose extra requirements on immigration lawyers...
A federal judge finalized a $1.6 billion settlement in the class action suit involving Toyota and allegations of unintended ac...
Litigation
Northern District judge aims to limit motions in price-fixing case
By Hadley Robinson
Even in her first order in a consolidated price fixing conspiracy case, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers made clear ...
Makers of flat panel displays have already coughed up more than $1 billion to settle class action claims that they conspired t...
John D. Conley's childhood experiences helped lead him to his judicial felony trial assignment.
Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP welcomed back a former colleague to its public and environmental law practice group from the ...
West Covina's veteran Commissioner Harold J. Mulville gets in before the sun to get it right.
Lawyers are advised to wear green in this former Notre Dame basketball player's courtroom.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Judges, attorneys lament absence of 9th Circuit judicial conference this year
By John Roemer
For the first time since 1944, there will be no judicial conference on the docket this summer at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Perspective
Until FDA acts, generic drug consumers left without remedy
By Ben Armisteadn
The U.S. high court's recent rulings limiting generic drug manufacturers' liability exposure are perplexing given the purpose ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
When it comes to mediation, 'yes' always means 'no'
By Ben Armisteadn
Everytime you say "yes" to a settlement, you're also saying "no" to every other option. By David B. Simpson ...
There are few people in American history who have served in so many government positions and turned up at so many historical e...
Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey gave a keynote address to nearly 175 pro bono lawyers, board members, staff ...
Criminal
Two companies plead guilty to fixing prices of rechargeable batteries
By Hadley Robinson
LG Chem Ltd. and Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd pled guilty Thursday to criminal charges filed in San Francisco admitting they were pa...
Staff, attorneys and summer associates at Blank Rome LLP's Los Angeles office participated in a volunteer day on June 29th as ...
Celebrating its third anniversary — and U.S. Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage — the Orange County Lavender Bar Assoc...
Government
Irish pharmaceutical company will pay $3.5 million to settle fraud claims
By Fiona Smith
The U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco announced Thursday that the Irish pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt plc will pay...
The City of Upland is suing a pair of insurance companies that allegedly bailed on paying legal fees to defend the municipalit...
Entertainment & Sports
Estate of Superman co-creator files another 9th Circuit appeal
By Ryne Hodkowski
The ongoing dispute over the rights to Superman continues as attorneys for the heirs of Superman co-creator Jerome Siegel on W...
Pasadena's Presiding Judge Mary Thornton House and current and former members of the Pasadena Bar Association attended an even...
Dozens of members of the Bay Area legal community gathered at One Market restaurant in San Francisco Tuesday for the annual Fo...
Frederick Carr, a Bay Area mediator with a background that includes jobs as a deep sea diver and a fisherman, has coaxed even ...
Through persistence, 12-attorney Sheldon Mak & Anderson PC became the largest intellectual property firm in Pasadena, draw...
Government
Amid hunger strike, lawyer says she's banned from visiting inmates
By Hamed Aleazizn
On the heels of reports that state prison officials have punished inmates participating in a hunger strike, an attorney now cl...
Law Practice
Messner Reeves opens in LA to cozy up with local clients
By Kylie Reynolds
To better serve its Southern California clients, Colorado-based law firm Messner Reeves LLP has opened an office in Los Angel...
"What to do with the baby boomers?" That's one of the largest problems facing law firms today, according to legal industry exp...
Labor/Employment
San Jose effort to air pension case hints at broader battle
By Laura Hautalan
In an upcoming trial to decide the fate of a 2012 voter initiative that shifted some of the cost of unfunded retirement benefi...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
The Daily Journal honored California's leading labor and employment lawyers with a July 16 reception on the rooftop lounge of ...
On Tuesday, a federal appeals court denied the major broadcast television networks' petition for a full-court rehearing of the...