Alternative Dispute Resolution
Think Outside the Box: Working Towards a Resolution
By Karen Natividadn
The law is about creativity - from creating new precedent, to applying new facts to old precedent. By Steven G. Mehta ...
The owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers may have made his final bet in his recent attempt to keep the franchise. By Michael S. Ko...
Two new programs provide amnesty from a wide variety of civil and criminal penalties for qualifying taxpayers. By Sanford Mill...
U.S. Supreme Court disappoints by not issuing any bright-line rules for application of specific jurisdiction over foreign manu...
International
Justices Limit Exposure of Foreign Businesses to US Litigation
By Karen Natividadn
The U.S. Supreme Court applies the "stream of commerce" doctrine in favor of foreign businesses in two recent decisions. By Ma...
Entertainment & Sports
Credits May Not Keep Film, TV Work in State
By Erica E. Phillips
California is having trouble holding on to feature and television production, but the problem of so-called "runaway production...
Salaries for recent law graduates have fallen sharply as positions at the largest law firms disappear, according to a study re...
Congressional Republicans are once again trying to slash spending on the quasi-governmental organization that funds legal aid ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Taps Second-In-Command to Temporarily Head Discipline Office
By Sara Randazzon
The State Bar has appointed its second-in-command, Robert A. Hawley, to temporarily oversee the discipline office in the wake ...
A former employee sued Thomas Jefferson School of Law last week, alleging that systematic sexual harassment by a supervisor of...
San Diego firm Lake APC has taken on a lawsuit against Facebook founder and social media titan Mark Zuckerberg. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Bill Aims to Remove Secrecy of Judge-Picking Committees
By Laura Ernden
Gov. Jerry Brown has begun quietly organizing a statewide network of advisers to vet judicial candidates. But state lawmakers ...
Christine Varney announced Monday that she will step down from her post as head of the Justice Department's antitrust division...
Legal consultancy Altman Weil released a report Wednesday saying the number of law firm mergers and acquisitions has picked up...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Bill Giving State Power to Regulate Health Insurance Rate Hikes Passes Committee
By Mandy Jacksonn
The Health Committee in the California Senate voted 5-3 on Wednesday to forward a bill to the Senate Appropriations Committee ...
Akin Gump has hit an unexpected stumbling block after switching hats to try out plaintiffs' side consumer fraud class action l...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an eight-month-old stay on a trial court ruling that declared unconstitutional th...
Options are few and hard to come by as top courts leaders look for how and where to cut $150 million from the judiciary's budg...
A three-year legal battle over oil drilling in an urban area of Los Angeles County reached a resolution this week when the co...
Engineering firm Parsons Corp. sold its corporate headquarters in Pasadena to a joint venture between Morgan Stanley Real Esta...
Public Interest
Disability Rights Lawyers Shape Internet Accessibility
By Amy Yarbroughn
After years targeting businesses over physical barriers, disability rights lawyers are focusing more and more attention on the...
Law firms jockey for who has the best Supreme Court practice, but rarely do you hear discussion on the business side of this n...
Perspective
Increase Your Effectiveness as a Writer: Understand Your Audience
By Genevieve Knollen
Five tips on how to get your point across to the judge. By Blair Schlecter of Hurrell Cantrall ...
This is the first ruling on the law's constitutionality since the U.S. attorney general announced that the Obama administratio...
The Obama administration last week attacked the federal Defense of Marriage Act's constitutionality and argued that a 9th U.S....
Federal authorities will review later this month whether the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority is in complianc...
Corporate
Using Financial Experts Strategically and Cost Effectively
By Genevieve Knollen
A cost-saving measure for in-house counsel engaged in commercial litigation. By Gilda R. Turitz of Sideman & Bancroft LLP,...
Large swathes of ocean off the West Coast are expected to be designated protected areas for endangered leatherback sea turtles...
Alameda County has agreed to accommodate Spanish- and Chinese-speaking voters in a deal to settle a lawsuit alleging civil rig...
The internet domain name manager Go Daddy Group Inc. turned to Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC for its recent sale to ...