In a ruling that boosts state laws policing immigration, a divided U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Arizona law that punishes busi...
A draft settlement agreement is the GPS of mediation, reaching a verbal agreement without this is a risk that should never be ...
The 2010 U.K. Bribery Act pushes the limits in the global anti-corruption effort. By Mike Emmick and Bethany Hengsbach of Shep...
Commissioner Bill Wood credits his time in the foreign service for expanding his horizon as a local prosecutor.
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Acquittal for Pharmaceutical GC a Relief
By Mandy Jacksonn
Attorneys breathed a collective sigh of relief when former GlaxoSmithKline lawyer Lauren Stevens was acquitted of six charges,...
The U.S. Supreme Court provides police with more discretion to enter residences without a warrant. By Louis J. Shapiro ...
Perspective
Peer-to-Peer Lending and Developments in SEC Regulation
By Karen Natividadn
The need for innovative lending options raises consumer protection issues that the government has yet to resolve. By Will Boll...
Perspective
Katie, Bar the Door: The Privilege to Resist Unlawful Police Conduct
By Karen Natividadn
Is there a right to reasonably resist unlawful entry by the police? By Michael C. McMahon ...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
San Francisco Sues Health Insurers
By Mandy Jacksonn
Blue Cross of California Inc. and Health Net of California Inc. owe millions of dollars in late and unpaid emergency medical b...
Crowell & Moring nabbed a health care litigation team from Epstein Becker & Green, led by William A. Helvestine. ...
A divided federal appeals court decided Wednesday to make it more difficult for defendants to prove inequitable conduct in pat...
A federal judge sided with Morgan Stanley this week in two separate lawsuits targeting the company's policy of requiring its e...
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Facing renewed scrutiny into doping allegations, Lance Armstrong has tapped pre-eminent law firm Keker & Van Nest to lead ...
Legal recruiters across the country are quietly celebrating last week's $1.9 million award to a legal recruiter over a fee dis...
Seeking to clear a backlog of litigation, a movement is afoot to coordinate asbestos lawsuits pending in Los Angeles, Orange a...
Over the objections of big business, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved Wednesday a controversial program to rewa...
Barry Kurtz APC moved its operations from one end of the San Fernando Valley to the other.
Google Inc. and Citigroup Inc. plan to invest a combined $110 million into a wind farm in southern California where the Mojave...
Commissioner Kenneth Pritchard combines a keen intellect and a folksy demeanor to preside over all manner of cases in the tiny...
Intellectual Property
What Does It Take to Sue a Patentee These Days?
By Genevieve Knollen
Patent holders now face a major jurisdictional hurdle in declaratory judgment cases. By Robert Harkins and Jennifer Ming of Se...
New York-based litigation firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP has been slowly, quietly building a presence in Southern Cali...
The state Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with how to calculate medical damages in personal injury cases in light of complex h...
Heading off consumer privacy lawsuits, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected an attempt to extend liabilit...
Jimmy L. Gutierrez, city attorney for Rialto and Chino, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of reckless driving after b...
Just three years ago, midsize Portland firm Bullivant Houser Bailey PC was reaching critical mass in California. Today, that e...
Insurance
Disputes Between Workers’ Compensation Insurers and Policyholders Belong in the Courts
By Karen Natividadn
Two recent appellate decisions clarify the issue of jurisdiction over competing claims of misrepresentation and insurance bad ...