The last three years have brought whirlwind change for Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal. The tremors have been felt firmwide,...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to take back, or soften, an unusually gruff order it made in December accus...
Roman Polanski's lawyers will get a hearing on whether the director should be sentenced in absentia for sex crimes under a sta...
Total venture investment in clean technology was down and overall deal making was steeply up in 2009, according to figures rel...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Judge Must Reconsider Class Action
By John Roemer
U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez of Los Angeles was wrong to deny class certification to labor union workers seeking to...
The California Supreme Court didn't seem eager Wednesday to stand in the way of post-9/11 security by extending broad free spe...
A former human resources official at Brocade Communications Systems Inc. will be the first Silicon Valley executive to serve a...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Lawyer Admits Role As Go-Between
By Evelyn Larrubian
A reformed gang member-turned-criminal defense attorney, whom prosecutors accused of working as a middleman for a clique of a ...
James Wong, U.S. Counsel for Chinney Capital, lays out the steps for and benefits of setting up regional headquarters in China...
Julie Waterstone of Southwestern Law School explains why the 'Civil Gideon' statute should be extended to education and school...
Letter to the Editor
Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys Carry Bias Into Judicial Office
By Sharon Liangn
Jennifer Keller of Keller Rackauckas says former prosecutors bring just as much bias into judicial office as ex-public defende...
Federal regulators in California encountered a virtual hurricane of investment fraud schemes in 2009. They ripped more than $4...
Family law attorneys Mitchell Jacobs and Jami Fosgate examine In re Marriage of Kacik and the issue of spousal and chil...
One of the nation's highest-profile trials, featuring a challenge to California's same-sex marriage ban, will be broadcast to ...
Gideon Kanner of Loyola Law School says the view that a growing public deficit transfers wealth from the young people to the o...
Letter to the Editor
Insurance Carriers' Bad Faith Conduct Is Cause of Increased Litigation
By Sharon Liangn
David Rosen of Rose, Klein & Marias explains why he believes litigation increased against the insurance industry after the...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Mark Labaton of Kreindler & Kreindler says criticism that the House's bill does not adequately regulate credit-rating agen...
Justice Candace Cooper wants to go back to where it all started - Dorsey High School, in the Crenshaw neighborhood where she g...
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe lawyers led by Mike Liever helped San Francisco private equity investment firm Tribeca Cos....
Latham & Watkins partners in Los Angeles advised Nestlé on its acquisition of Kraft Foods' frozen pizza business for $3.7 ...
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Peter McBrien narrowly escaped losing his job Tuesday, when the state Commission on Jud...
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A Santa Barbara software company filed a $2.2 billion copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday against the Chinese government, a...
The Upper Deck Co., a Carlsbad-based card seller, counterfeited thousands of popular Japanese animation trading cards, a feder...
A patent infringement case that spawned two defamation lawsuits against Cisco and outed the company's formerly anonymous attor...
Deborah Sivas of Stanford Law School discusses responses, post-Copenhagen, to the 'endangerment finding' regarding greenhouse ...
Initial roadblocks to Oracle-Sun merger show why antitrust policy convergence should be top priority write Patrick Ryan and La...
Julie Daniels and Robin Kardon of Major, Lindsey & Africa instruct on how to navigate today's overflowing attorney candida...