More employers may consider taking advantage of the program now that the IRS has expanded it. ...
Government
Bills targeting how courts handle environmental law face uncertain future
By Fiona Smith
As legislators debate altering the state's landmark environmental law this session, they are not just looking at the law itsel...
Perspective
New FTC Green Guides could put greenwashers in hot water
By Ben Armisteadn
The guides take a pragmatic, factually intensive approach that is based on the perception of the consumer and the factual basi...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Employers need to start getting to know pay or play rules
By Ben Armisteadn
For employers, the most important provision of health care reform is the "play or pay" mandate which requires large employers ...
Environmental
California Air Resources Board sees wave of litigation
By Ben Armisteadn
Since it began implementing AB 32, CARB has been sued by both regulated parties and environmentalists challenging the manner i...
Intellectual Property
Samsung aiming to stay Apple's second patent lawsuit
By Rachel Swan
Lawyers for Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. are jousting over a federal judge's suggestion to stay their second pa...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit approves warrantless search of U.S. citizen's laptop in major privacy case
By John Roemer
In a watershed privacy case, an en banc panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday approved - with conditions - ...
Startup founders, programmers, investors and lawyers from across the country gathered at the Computer History Museum in Silico...
Litigation
Judge rejects Apple's bid to kill privacy case, cites discovery violations
By Rachel Swan
A federal judge has denied Apple Inc.'s motion for summary judgment in a suit alleging that it gathered location data from unw...
Judges and Judiciary
Orange County judge being investigated for alleged sexual favors
By Alexandra Schwappach
Authorities said Friday they were continuing to investigate allegations that Orange County Superior Court Judge Scott Steiner ...
Litigation
Lawyers in porn video copyright infringement case get heat from judge
By Henry Meier
Porn, offshore holding companies, allegations of stolen identities, copyright infringement lawsuits and a highly unusual order...
Litigation
Johnson & Johnson to pay $8.3 million in first hip implant case
By Ryne Hodkowski
A Los Angeles jury awarded $8.3 million to a victim of a defective all-metal hip implant in a bellwether case against DePuy Or...
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC added labor and employment shareholder David H. Raizman to its Los Angeles off...
A federal judge shut down Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.'s efforts to punish lawyer Marc Toberoff for misconduct while repres...
Cooley picks up two corporate lawyers from Sheppard Mullin
Rick Climan and Keith Flaum of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP discuss indemnification provisions in the M&A context.
Mediation offers tremendous benefits. To get those benefits, you must recognize that, when you go to mediation, you have right...
Privilege logs are expensive. And as any junior associate will confirm, they are tedious and an absolute pain to compile. Emai...
Law Practice
Can juries award prejudgment interest in malpractice suits?
By Ben Armisteadn
The California authority on point suggests that a jury does not have discretion to award prejudgment interest as damages in a ...
Sotomayor shares her life story - from her youth in a South Bronx housing project, to her challenges as one of a handful of La...
Litigation
Twitter's bid to remove state lawsuit against it to federal court is rejected
By Saul Sugarman
U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen has sent a lawsuit against Twitter Inc. back to state court and awarded costs to the plaint...
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC will welcome David H. Raizman as shareholder in its Los Angeles office Friday,...
Los Angeles County Superior Court's alternative dispute resolution department, which its officials tout as the largest in the ...
Finishing up a two-day meeting, the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California voted to move forward with a legislative ...
Government
Inmate population will break pre-realignment levels by 2015, report says
By Hamed Aleazizn
A forthcoming analysis projects that by 2015, the number of inmates in correctional control will be nearly equal to the popula...
Shearman & Sterling LLP advised the lead underwriters in Milestone Apartments REIT's Toronto Stock Exchange $200 million i...
Perspective
Preserving judgment liens after a debtor's bankruptcy filing
By Ben Armisteadn
A judgment lien is one of the most powerful tools in the creditor's arsenal, but its effect can be severely curtailed by a ban...
Litigation
Judge skeptical about letting former Hausfeld partner avoid arbitration
By Hadley Robinson
A federal judge expressed skepticism Thursday that an arbitration agreement at Hausfeld LLP is unconscionable, making it unlik...
An Orange County doctor was convicted Thursday of fraudulently billing medical procedures and prescriptions, bilking nearly $3...
Cooley LLP advised retailer Hot Topic Inc. in its $600 million cash sale to Sycamore Partners, announced Thursday.