California's restitution fund is under strain, leaving victims to recover on their own.By Julie Nauman of the Victim Compensat...
Litigation
Preservationists sue Riverside transit body
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
A land preservation group sued the Riverside County Transportation Commission to try to halt a planned extension of commuter t...
The federal Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with state pesticide regulators that resolves allegations t...
The bankruptcy law firm Felderstein Fitzgerald Willoughby & Pascuzzi LLP reaped a slew of cases and achieved financial suc...
Bratz manufacturer MGA Entertainment Inc. Thursday dropped a countersuit against O'Melveny & Myers LLP for alleged malprac...
Riverside County settled a lawsuit with the union representing deputy district attorneys, enabling 45 prosecutors to each coll...
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP helped Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. extend a $5 billion lifeline to beleaguered Ban...
Judges and Judiciary
Effort to unveil state judicial selection committee members falls flat
By Laura Ernden
Gov. Jerry Brown won't have to reveal the names of lawyers and judges across the state who are helping him vet judicial candid...
Government
Judicial leaders talk about ways to deal with budget cuts
By Amy Yarbroughn
At the Judicial Council's first public issues meeting on Thursday , court leaders outlined the various ways trial courts ha...
A bill to authorize a ballot measure banning the death penalty failed to capture enough votes in the state Assembly's appropri...
Intellectual Property
Allergan wins patent battle against generic drugmakers
By Mandy Jacksonn
Irvine-based Allergan Inc. won a patent battle against four generic drugmakers in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern Dist...
BraunHagey & Borden LLP, a San Francisco-based firm that focuses on complex litigation, picked up former Securities and Ex...
The state Supreme Court has intervened in a controversy over whether State Bar test taker data should be released to the publi...
Monday's hearing on whether recordings from last year's Proposition 8 trial should be released to the public won’t be videotap...
Facing projected layoffs of 1,250 employees and possible closures of 120 courtrooms, Los Angeles County Superior Court is once...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Insurance rate bill clears Senate committee
By Mandy Jacksonn
Legislation that would give California's health insurance regulators broad new powers to approve or reject premium increases o...
Liaisons in all four of California's U.S. attorney's offices are seeking out ways they can help the state's American Indian po...
Perspective
Using confidential advisory opinions in difficult mediations
By Genevieve Knollen
Confidential advisory opinions can bridge or narrow the evaluation gap, clearing the path to settlement. By Richard C. Neal an...
Correct discipline is neither intuitive nor easy. By John McLachlan of Fisher & Phillips LLP ...
Perspective
No vote for you: How the US disenfranchises America’s heroes
By Sharon Liangn
In the 2010 election, approximately 65, 0000, military voters were disenfranchised by the very government they fight to protec...
Northern District Chief Judge James S. Ware wants to videotape Monday's hearing on whether to publicly release recordings from...
The operator of a toxic waste landfill in the Central Valley will pay an estimated $1 million to settle claims by the Environm...
An exception to a federal statute that protects Internet service providers and search engines from liability got Google Inc. i...
In 2009, Hewlett-Packard Co. started hiring in-house attorneys directly from law school. Two years later, managers say the ini...
Justice David G. Sills, who led the 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana for more than two decades and oversaw constructi...
TCW executives made plans to fire star bond manager Jeffrey E. Gundlach three months before his termination took place and a w...
The criminal probe into whether cycling legend Lance Armstrong cheated in his ride to six Tour de France victories has taken a...