Tim Tosta of Luce Forward acknowledges that, in one way or another, all the greats stood on the shoulders of someone or someth...
Robin Barnes examines the role and nature of privacy in Western democracies and discusses some of the legal battles celebritie...
Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says Arizona's immigration law unconstitutionally criminalizes "walking while ...
San Diego-based Sempra Energy will pay $400 million to settle claims stemming from the energy crisis earlier this decade in an...
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court Punts Mojave Cross Case To Lower Court
By Lawrence Hurleyn
The justices said a trial judge should get a second chance to decide whether a First Amendment violation was cured when Congre...
While judges can reach correct decisions on the value of digital evidence, they are at the mercy of "experts" when it comes to...
In its only environmental case of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday reviewed a San Francisco judge's decision to impose ...
Real Estate/Development
Banks Go to Great Lengths to Limit Liability
By Jason W. Armstrong
From extending loans to hiring receivers, lenders seek to avoid taking ownership of failed development projects with future r...
Real Estate/Development
Recover Payments From A Contractor Whose License Lapses
By Michael Gottliebn
Most people know there is a big difference between licensed and unlicensed contractors. ...
In our first-ever section devoted to the real estate practice, we track an uptick an transaction work. There are also articles...
Judge will decide whether a $1.7 billion payment is due to the state prior to the May 10 deadline. ...
Reed Smith attorneys represented Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems in one of the largest sales of wind turb...
Shartsis Friese corporate partner Derek Wilson led a team of lawyers that represented Maytag Corp. heir Fritz Maytag in his sa...
After being threatened with a lawsuit by state Attorney General Jerry Brown Jr.'s office, San Bernardino County's Board of Sup...
With judges debating over unpublished appellate opinions, Gideon Kanner of Loyola Law School explains why it's deja vu all ove...
This week, the judge in a closely watched lawsuit seeking to overturn a law barring people who are openly gay from serving in ...
After more than a decade cooperating with federal prosecutors in their securities fraud case against former executives of McKe...
In a win for the plaintiffs' bar, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for shareholders Tuesday in a major class action securities fra...
Steve Butler of Pension Dynamics says there is a unique retirement plan variation that can grease the skids of an exit strateg...
A Northern California judge accused of abusing his position by ordering a man to stay away from credit union employees he'd un...
In the long run, broader rules on publication and permissive citation to unpublished cases will not make us happier, writes Ki...
A federal judge on Tuesday approved a $1.1 billion settlement between disability rights groups and the California Department o...
With Los Angeles facing tough times, new and renovated courthouses are important, but preserving access to justice comes first...
Real Estate/Development
Who Is Rewriting the Rules for Mortgage-Backed Securities?
By Mandy Jacksonn
Investor interest helps restart the CMBS market as regulators advance financial reforms. ...
More banks work with borrowers to attempt to resolve the $135 billion in distressed real estate. ...
Real Estate/Development
Transactional Attorneys See Market Improvement
By Kari Hamanakan
A total of $2.7 billion of California deals closed in first-quarter 2010, a 60 percent increase from a year ago. ...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
DOJ Move Could Shrink Medical Costs
By Evan George
The Department of Justice has decided not to challenge a proposal by business interests to compile, share, and make public the...
A Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge has ordered a formal contempt hearing to determine whether the Metropolitan Transpor...
Nothing Fazes Her
Wells Fargo Bank is charged with gaming customers' debit card transactions to reap $300 million in unfair overdraft fees since...