If covering Americans who suffer "pre-existing conditions" will be the first litmus test for health reform's success, that tes...
Real Estate/Development
Surveys Suggest Real Estate Could Be Headed for a Bounce
By Jason W. Armstrong
Name a common term to describe real estate attorneys' outlook for the market. Survey says: Optimism! ...
From construction defects to employment disputes, Michael Duckor specializes in complex matters. ...
On Thursday the California Supreme Court seemed ready to forgive former Judge Norman Gordon for his failure to come clean abou...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Netflix and Wal-Mart Accused of Illegally Dividing DVD Market
By Rebecca Beyer
In the fall of 2004, Netflix Inc. chief executive Reed Hastings asked his counterpart at Wal-Mart.com to lunch. ...
Orange County Judge William Froeberg is known for his sense of humor. But he knows when to get down to business.
The Charles Schwab Corp., which last month agreed to pay $200 million to settle federal law claims that it misrepresented the ...
The ongoing wrangling over where to build a new women's jail in San Diego County is heating up, with plans by the county super...
An initiative that would require public agencies entering the retail power business to first receive two-thirds approval from ...
A federal appellate panel sharply questioned Wednesday whether former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona should have been charg...
The Port of Los Angeles could eventually impose radical new labor requirements on the trucking industry even if a federal judg...
Randall Spencer discusses the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of any attempt to restrict the availability of class actions in f...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Medical Facilities Sue Over Budget Cuts
By Evan George
Private providers who treat developmentally disabled children and teenagers are the latest to sue California officials to reve...
On April 19, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in City of Ontario v. Quon. Bryce Besser of Brown Law Group wri...
The potential for larger awards has lead to an uptick in false marking suits, creating a new tension for manufacturers of prod...
The law firm of the future - or at least the future the legal industry appears headed toward at the moment - might be found in...
Kristina Lawson of Miller Starr & Regalia says the unprecedented global crisis has dried up financing for development proj...
The San Francisco intellectual property firm Townsend and Townsend and Crew is rumored to be in serious merger talks with Kilp...
The California Supreme Court might craft explicit rules allowing government agencies to hire outside counsel on a contingency ...
A dozen cities in California are poised to pounce on an array of investment and commercial banks that allegedly bilked taxpaye...
Civil Rights
Report: Epidemic of Guard Brutality in Los Angeles Jail
By Sandra Hernandezn
Inmates at Los Angeles County's main jail for men are routinely subject to savage beatings - often at the hands of the facilit...
Judge Leslie A. Dunn of Van Nuys is willing to make tough decisions, even if that means dismissing charges against a criminal...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Health Clinics Stay Wary of California
By Evan George
After years of sluggish growth and growing pains, the trend of no-frills health clinics in big-box and other retail stores is ...
Judge Charlotte W. Woolard enjoys the variety of cases and legal issues that come in and out of her busy law-and-motion courtr...
The American Bar Association has decided to go ahead with its Equal Justice Conference, scheduled for next week in Arizona-but...
The Americans With Disabilities Act does not require California cities to keep medical marijuana dispensaries open, a federal ...
Although the UCI School of Law is no longer brand new and though its 100-percent scholarships, which went to all students in t...
The San Mateo County district attorney's office is working out a deal with attorneys for tech blog Gizmodo and its editor Jaso...
Santa Cruz County Superior Court is publicly talking about laying off a big chunk of its workforce this summer. ...
With another 32 million individuals added to the system, Paul DeMuro of Latham & Watkins explains what healthcare reform w...