San Francisco's 100-lawyer law firm Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin lost four directors in quick succession fr...
Chief Judge Paul Michel announced his plans to retire from the federal bench after more than two decades. ...
Jeremiah Ho of Whittier Law School examines In re Bilski and whether business methods are patentable as a process. ...
A U.S. judge says plaintiffs failed to show that Chase Bank concealed increased minimum monthly payments on credit card loans....
A U.S. judge said Toyota Motor Corp. does not have standing to block a former in-house counsel's efforts to reveal damaging in...
Bar officials said 56.4 percent of applicants who took the July test passed it, a dip from the July 2008 test when a stunning ...
Litigation
Plaintiffs Could Get Access To Evidence In Pellicano Case
By Evelyn Larrubian
The sloth-like pace of civil litigation concerning ex-private investigator Anthony Pellicano's wiretapping operation quickened...
Criminal defendants who want to get out of a plea deal by blaming their lawyer must get permission from the trial court before...
A U.K.-based company whose existence depends on making accessories for Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game console is suing ...
Los Angeles County Judge Shari Silver often gives lapsed defendants more chances to straighten out their lives. The justice sy...
In this issue of The New Lawyer, six recent law school graduates write about their future in an uncertain legal market, plus f...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court Affirms Limits on Legal Aid
By John Roemer
The long-running battle over federal funding for legal aid groups has tilted in favor of restrictions on how the groups can pr...
The Halcyon Co., the bankrupt producer of "Terminator Salvation," is preparing to auction the rights to the sci-fi franchise t...
British-American lawyers unite to form Kalisch Rufus-Isaacs to help California lawyers and their clients doing business abroad...
Beth Dorris of Best Best & Krieger comments on how climate change policies are shifting in different directions. ...
Letter to the Editor
California's Insurance Regulator Should Not Be Overlooked
By Sharon Liangn
Lynne Randolph of the California Dept. of Managed Health Care says the state insurance regulator fights to protect consumers a...
Doomed poultry got no help just days before Thanksgiving from a federal appeals court panel that ordered dismissal of a lawsui...
Dan Knise and Eileen Garczynski of Ames & Gough conclude their article on what law firms can do to ensure full payment for...
Tamir Damari and John Hansen of Nossaman explain how a director's fiduciary duty to an insolvent corporation's creditor is now...
Kurt Schlichter of Schlichter & Shonack compares a lawsuit to a military campaign and a lawyer to a general. ...
Federal prosecutors were unable to persuade a jury to convict two men accused of stealing trade secrets from their employer an...
Government
Private Prison Deal Awarded After Political Contribution
By Evelyn Larrubian
Corrections Corporation of America received a $54.4-million-a-year contract extension by California officials in October, six ...