An appellate court recently validated the special relationship between project applicants and the agencies considering their p...
Judd Kessler debunks bad advice lawyers are given about running a practice in "Dangerous Law Practice Myths, Lies and Stupidit...
A West Hills attorney was arrested late Tuesday at a Century City law office and charged with obstructing a grand jury proceed...
The ink is barely dry on an order issued Tuesday by a panel of federal judges that the state of California come up with a plan...
Federal authorities are investigating Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar and former Los Angeles Unified School Board memb...
Saying California's prison system threatens public safety, a panel of three federal judges Tuesday ordered the state to come u...
Administrative/Regulatory
Democrats Are Finding a Lot to Like About States' Rights
By Robert Iafolla
Respecting states' rights and limiting federal government long ago emerged as a prominent theme in the Republican Party's poli...
The San Francisco city attorney's office, which filed a lawsuit last year on behalf of state residents against the National Ar...
Government
Orange County Puts Off Decision on Appeal of Deputies' Pension Ruling
By Don Debenedictisn
With city and county budgets and the state budget in turmoil, government lawyers have been waiting eagerly to find out whether...
Judges and Judiciary
Do Judges Make Law? Yes - Just Not at Their Confirmation
By Sara Libbyn
The myth that judges don't make law is soothing to the general public but entirely untrue, writes Matt Valenti. ...
The Medicare Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act creates significant challenges for liability and self insurers, writes Sharon C....
Philadelphia-based Blank Rome added bankruptcy capabilities to its fledgling Los Angeles office, grabbing Sara Chenetz from So...
Case law on how to assess patent false marking offenses is sparse, writes Michelle Porter. ...
The case of the "Myspace mom" proves every case is the product of human interaction and consequence, writes Robert D. Brain. ...
After investment in the clean technology sector tanked earlier this year, two reports released Tuesday spell good news for the...
California Courts of Appeal
Appeals Case Went On and On -- and Could Go On Some More
By Laura Ernden
After more than three years and two oral arguments, the 4th District Court of Appeal finally got to the bottom of a case about...
Law Practice
Federal Authorities Investigating Payments to LA City Councilman, Former School Board Member
By Evelyn Larrubian
Federal authorities are investigating Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar and former Los Angeles Unified School Board memb...
Judge Hector Ramon puts his childhood experience navigating arguments between seven siblings to good use in the courtroom. ...
David Wotherspoon and Katherine Gower ask: Does Canada deserve to be on par with India and China for trademark, patent and cop...
The Screen Actors Guild is trying to enlarge its piece of the $1 billion pie that companies spend on athlete endorsements. ...
Securities
Federal Appeals Court Rebuffs Commission on Foreign Currency Enforcement
By Gabe Friedmann
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals beaned the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday for bri...
The National Association for Law Placement released its annual survey of law firm associate compensation last week, but the st...
U.S. employers laying off foreign workers should be careful to comply with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services regulatio...
Richard Posell discusses the rationale behind a judge's order halting an unauthorized sequel to "A Catcher in the Rye." ...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the ACLU, among other groups, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review an Arizona law requiring...
Instructions on the "reasonable doubt" standard can be ambiguous and confusing, writes Dean D. Pregerson. ...
The Consumer Attorneys of California has begun a new push to topple the state's restrictive cap on damages in medical malpract...
Employers can set up hidden cameras in the workplace, but they'd better have good reasons for doing it and tread carefully to ...
Yahoo's general counsel, Mike Callahan, talks about why the Justice Department should approve the Yahoo-Microsoft search partn...
In July, the justice bus delivered a load of law students and attorneys to provide pro bono help to residents of Marin County,...