Catherine A. Conway of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, helped successfully represent Starbucks in beating back a $100 mill...
After a decade of hearing graphic murder trials, overseeing a bleeding court budget is less harrowing for Judge Mary Ann O'Mal...
Government
Business Interests Pick New Fight Over California Emissions Standards
By Fiona Smith
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Automobile Dealers Association filed a petition for review with the U.S. Court o...
The core of the way we govern ourselves - the basic gears in the watch of state government - have seriously eroded over time, ...
Judges and Judiciary
Governor Names Judge for Ventura County Bench
By Evelyn Larrubian
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced late Wednesday the appointment of Nancy L. Ayers to a judgeship in the Ventura County...
Rehashing a common argument, supporters of California's same-sex marriage ban told a federal judge late Wednesday that the gov...
The Federal Circuit recently found that under some circumstances, awarding an ongoing royalty for patent infringement in lieu ...
Prevailing plaintiffs should ordinarily recover attorney fees, but the opposite presumption applies to prevailing employers, w...
Government
Judge Upholds Ruling Nixing Furloughs for Some State Workers
By Dhyana Levey
Clerical workers for the State Compensation Insurance Fund can immediately return to work and are entitled to back pay, a San ...
The governor's cuts to child welfare aren't simply morally wrong, they are also fiscally unsound, write John Burton and Miriam...
Law Practice
New Head of Women's Legal Group to Tackle Bias in Billing
By Susan Mcraen
Helen B. Kim is set to take over leadership of Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles - and has strong ideas about its plans...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Veteran Consensus Builder Takes Helm at State Bar
By Evelyn Larrubian
Incoming State Bar president Howard Miller hopes to use his tenure to improve the organization's management and internal finan...
Keith Wisot's judgelike demeanor sets him apart from other neutrals, say lawyers who have worked with him. ...
Education
UCLA Law School's Dean Moves on To Chicago, Mission Accomplished
By Sara Randazzon
As news spread through the legal community this week that UCLA School of Law's Dean Michael Schill would be departing to head ...
Government
Obama's Speech Points to Possible Medical Malpractice Reform
By Robert Iafolla
President Barack Obama's mere mention of medical malpractice during Wednesday night's address on health care reform lifted Rep...
California Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to review an appellate court’s reversal of a ruling against Starbucks Corp. Tha...
U.S. Supreme Court
Sotomayor Shows Affinity for Oral Debate During First Case
By Lawrence Hurleyn
Perhaps keen to show that she is, indeed, a "wise Latina," newly-ensconced Justice Sonia Sotomayor waited just 35 minutes Wedn...
Being honest and transparent with consumers about malpractice insurance benefits everyone, writes Josh King. ...
Criminal
Order Sought Again to Seal Evidence in Latest Clergy Abuse Litigation
By Sandra Hernandezn
A former priest convicted of sexually abusing children is asking a Los Angeles court to return all documents filed in a new ci...
Government
Obama Administration Earns Mixed Grades From Civil Liberties Group
By Robert Iafolla
The Obama administration earned mixed grades on four key privacy areas in a report released by a leading privacy advocacy grou...
A recent appellate case may have effectively narrowed the gap between the two classes of private arbitration litigants, writes...
A settlement requiring a Newport Beach school district to train administrators, teachers and students to combat homophobia an...
Any approach to regulating climate change will provide more certainty than exists today, and more efficiency than can be achie...
U.S. Supreme Court
Court Poised to Undo Limits on Corporate Campaigning
By Lawrence Hurleyn
In a high-profile campaign finance case over an anti-Hillary Clinton movie, the U.S. Supreme Court appeared Wednesday to be in...
Personal injury law firm Masry & Vititoe, pushed into bankruptcy after a slew of litigation over the estate of founder Edw...
A decision to designate critical habitat for the California tiger salamander follows several years of proceedings concerning t...
The rule requiring the disclosure of malpractice insurance will inevitably be used against attorneys, write Michael Bradley an...
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As the legislature struggles to reach a deal on fixing the state's ailing water delivery system around the Sacramento-San Joaq...
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. escorted newly appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor down the front steps of the U.S. Supreme Co...