Litigation
Judge allows antitrust claims against tech companies to proceed
By Jill Redhage
Seven Bay Area technology companies accused of violating antitrust laws by agreeing not to recruit each other's employees have...
By Stephen T. Holzer ...
The suit, filed Thursday by the Los Angeles Police Protective League, claims that the impound rules adopted by the LAPD create...
As secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency, Matt Rodriquez not only oversees enforcement of laws to prev...
For Feingold, a practicing attorney and a neutral at Alternative Resolution Centers LLC, timing is everything. ...
A downsized San Francisco commissioner and a family law specialist get part-time jobs. ...
Real Estate/Development
Environmental rules for development loosening
By Jason W. Armstrong
New discussions about environmental review fast-tracking are beginning to sprout on the heels of Gov. Jerry Brown's approval o...
Energy Law
Attorneys' work may dry up as California reaches energy goals
By Paul Jones
Ten years after California established requirements that electrical utilities buy and deliver green energy, the state is comin...
A federal judge Thursday finalized a ruling in the ongoing spat between insurance carriers for Bratz manufacturer MGA Entertai...
In response to anticipated demand, the insurance industry introduced a slew of commercial, non-residential green policies and ...
Labor/Employment
Plaintiffs' bar plots strategy after lunch break decision
By Brian Sumersn
Plaintiffs' lawyers who've digested the state Supreme Court's recent opinion on meal-and-rest break class actions say that as...
'We have a saying in our firm, "there's no such thing as a bad fact." They're either good facts or irrelevant facts meaning th...
Government
New witness alleging LA jail violence was a US security contractor
By Evan Georgen
Lawyers pushing for a judicial overhaul of Men's Central Jail because of inmate abuse allegations have a new witness they hope...
Two married California attorneys who had their infant son briefly removed from their custody for suspected abuse are fighting ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Panel hears arguments on NFL players' malpractice suit
By John Roemer
Retired pro football greats Paul Hornung, John Brodie, Bernie Parrish and others took their beef with their former lawyers at ...
In an industry filled with people who are paid to disagree with each other, one issue many attorneys share a near-unanimous op...
Executive Vice President, General Counsel for Opus Bank Irvine ...
Letter to the editor. By Drew Pomerance ...
Perspective
Private parts aren’t private: Florence v. Bd of Chosen Freeholders
By Michael Leen
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court held that police officers may require persons arrested for minor criminal offenses to exp...
A central front took shape in the debate over several mortgage reform bills pitting the financial industry against lawmakers a...
A superior court judge has set a retrial date in actress Nicollette Sheridan's wrongful termination dispute with the producers...
Perspective
Book Review: 'Life Among the Cannibals' by Arlen Specter
By Karen Natividadn
In "Life Among the Cannibals," Specter chronicles the rise of extremism in the political parties and the intolerance for other...
Prodded by U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh, Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have agreed to try to settle their pat...
U.S. Supreme Court
Corporations can't be sued under torture act, high court rules
By Robert Iafolla
Corporations and other organizations can't be sued under a federal law designed to crack down on perpetrators of torture abroa...
Rejecting an appeal lodged by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held Wednesday that pat...
Baker Botts nabbed an intellectual property litigator from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, the second IP partner to depart...