Commissioner Michael Gassner enjoys teaching bench officers and leading a youth soccer team.
Environmental
Environmentalists escalate legal attacks on oil trains entering California
By Fiona Smith
Citing concerns over air pollution and public safety, the Sierra Club and others allege Kern County did a flawed environmental...
Redemption is a theme which runs throughout the Warner Brothers new release, "The Judge," opening nationally Friday and starri...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Experts and a lawyer's standard of care
By Ben Armisteadn
In the following excerpt from "California Legal Malpractice Law," we learn about some of the issues surrounding expert evidenc...
Managing partner expectations regarding the amount and timing for increased profits from combining law firm operations and off...
Judges and Judiciary
Phone system upgrade headed to LA Superior Court
By Ben Armisteadn
Some good news: The Los Angeles County Superior Court is making significant technological strides by updating its phone system...
Government
Juvenile judge a candidate for LA child protective services czar
By Melanie Brisbon
Michael Nash, presiding judge of Los Angeles County Superior Court's juvenile division, on Thursday confirmed his interest in ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediator uses political experience to help resolve disputess
By Craig Andersonn
Barbara Spector enters a room with the authority of a trial attorney who has spent her career convincing juries to side with h...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Former Qualcomm lawyer should be disbarred for voyeurism, bar judge rules
By Don Debenedictisn
Convicted of misdemeanor peeking through window at his teenage stepson, former Qualcomm counsel Andrew W. Quinn should be disb...
The National Association for Law Placement found more large firms are paying first-year associates less than the usual average...
At Rufus-Isaacs, 10 lawyers share one office, an assistant, and vast experience in diverse areas of law ...
Charles E. Rickershauser Jr., one of the first partners at Munger, Tolles & Olson and the head of the California Corporati...
Public Interest
Santa Monica's Rape Treatment Center works to improve how law enforcement treat victims
By Kylie Reynolds
In its 40th year, the center has served more than 30,000 victims and been recognized nationally for its training of law enforc...
Law Practice
Chevron elevates corporate counsel to fill governance role
By Alison Frost
San Ramon-based Chevron Corp. will replace its retiring corporate secretary and chief governance officer with its current chie...
While generally cases are assigned randomly pursuant to what is colloquially known as the "wheel," there are nuances inherent ...
Intellectual Property
California, not Texas, will host Google-Rockstar fight
By Kevin Lee
Google Inc. won its bid for a Northern California judge to consider a patent litigation showdown against an Apple Inc.-backed ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
VIDEO: Negotiating specific performance and other remedies in M&A deals
By Katharine Malonen
In this mock negotiation, Rick Climan and Keith Flaum of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP debate the specific performance remedy...
In recent years, defendants in federal court have increasingly used FRCP 68 offers as strategic tools to fend off class action...
Litigation
State education officials scramble to deal with LA school after judge's order
By Matt Hamilton
Alameda Superior Court Judge George Hernandez Jr. issued a temporary restraining order this week to ensure students at a South...
Environmental
Timber company alleges prosecutorial fraud in moonlight fire case
By Hadley Robinson
A giant logging company and others blamed for the massive 2007 "moonlight fire" in Northern California asked a federal judge o...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Government
Downtown Los Angeles' historic criminal justice center reopened after 20 years
By Kylie Reynolds
The Hall of Justice served as the apex of L.A.'s criminal justice system from 1925 until 1994. County officials on Wednesday r...
General Counsel, Chief Administrative Officer and Vice President of Customer and Expert Operations JustAnswer LLC San Fran...
While simple in concept, many questions remain as to the scope of a statute rendering a "client employer" liable for obligati...
Last month, outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced a proposal to increase dramatically the size of monetary awar...
Accused of defrauding investors with a bogus buyout claim, former Motionloft Inc. CEO Jonathan Edward Mills has pleaded guilty...
Animal Law Guild holds inaugural conference ...
Litigation
New batch of lawsuits attack Thomas Jefferson law school job figures
By Don Debenedictisn
Denied certification for a class action against Thomas Jefferson School of Law, the attorney representing graduates angry abou...
Lawsuit filed on behalf of TSA officer fatally shot last year ...
Los Angeles-based Fox Sports has merged its domestic and international legal and business groups and promoted the executive vi...