An attorney and former judge has stepped down as head of a committee charged with conducting a sweeping review of the state Ad...
Construction
Survey bullish about multifamily, industrial real estate in California
By Connie Lopez
California's multifamily and industrial real estate markets are looking up, according to the latest Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderso...
Officials at a San Diego County fire district say dwindling property tax revenues and the high cost of public employee pay and...
Attorneys for home lenders are waging a renewed battle against an old pest - a scam that hurts both banks and homeowners in tr...
Intellectual Property
Judge denies summary judgment in Bratz insurers case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
A federal court judge denied a summary judgment motion by a group of insurance companies that contended they shouldn't have to...
In an unintended consequence of realignment, some criminal offenders are willing to take hard time over probation because cou...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Skadden advises investment group on taking Pep Boys private
By Robert Pierce
Los Angeles partners from Skadden Arps advised private equity firm The Gores Group LLC on its agreement to buy The Pep Boys f...
Starting this month, in what workers' rights advocates call a major victory, low-income earners can recover twice their lost w...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Winston & Strawn LLP added Michael J. Scheer as partner in its Los Angeles and New York offices. He focuses on patent port...
Superior Court Commissioner Los Angeles County (Pasadena) ...
A recent flurry of technology and media companies moving into "Silicon Beach" along western Los Angeles' shoreline is creating...
Is the federal government's increasing involvement in corporate governance regulation a good thing? By Stephen M. Bainbridget ...
Lack of care in drafting contract provisions can be costly. By Robert S. Reder, David Schwartz and Nehal Siddiqui of Milbank, ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Rethinking mediation: new thoughts on mediator selection
By Michael Leen
Mediator selection used to be so easy - now there's a much bigger pool with more qualified candidates. By Michael D. Young of ...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Health care reform experiences growing pains
By Karen Natividadn
For the Affordable Care Act to survive, it must fend for survival not only in the political arena, but on the constitutional f...
Judges and Judiciary
Feinstein recommends San Jose magistrate for district judgeship
By Jill Redhage
The Obama Administration is considering U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal for a district judgeship, lawyers close to the pr...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Amgen looks to the future with $1.2 billion buy of cancer drug company
By Mandy Jacksonn
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is representing Thousand Oaks-based Amgen Inc. in its $1.2 billion, all-cash acquisition of the Co...
U.S. District Magistrate Suzanne H. Segal has been named chief magistrate of the Central District, the court announced Thursda...
A federal judge denied a motion to dismiss a class action brought by gay California state employees challenging their partners...
Doyle & Moore LLP will become Doyle, Moore & Schafer LLP Feb. 16 when Terrence J. Schafer joins from Reback, McAndrews...
A coalition of environmental and American Indian groups sued the National Marine Fisheries Service Thursday alleging its appro...
Lawyers for the family of an elderly Japanese woman who fatally crashed her Toyota Camry in 2009 have swerved into the coveted...
With local redevelopment agencies set to dissolve next week, a Sacramento County Superior Court judge today will hear two cour...
The Natural Resources Defense Council sued the federal Environmental Protection Agency Thursday over its approval of an anti-b...
Mother Nature helped David W. Rudy appreciate the potential of mediation. After a grueling landslide case involving 45 homes, ...
Judges and Judiciary
State Supreme Court launches judicial ethics committee
By Laura Ernden
A judicial ethics committee created by the state Supreme Court in 2007 can finally start dispensing advice. ...
The familial ties at Novian & Novian haven't kept the boutique from representing a wide variety of clients in big matters....
A state court judge on Thursday denied attempts by broadcast satellite provider DirecTV Inc. to compel arbitration in a class ...
Corporate
Tech employees may proceed with litigation over non-solicitation agreements
By Craig Andersonn
A federal judge said Thursday that an antitrust lawsuit by engineers and scientists against Silicon Valley heavyweights for al...