Corporate
Institutional investors pave the way for solar panel leases
By Salvador Mares
Spurred on by lucrative federal tax credits, institutional investors are pouring billions of dollars into solar energy compani...
General Counsel of Side.cr LLC San Francisco ...
Re: "Concerted effort to quell DUI-related crimes sees success, but criticism remains," July 2. By Lee E. Cooper ...
Gov. Jerry Brown persuaded the Legislature to eliminate the state's geographically targeted economic development areas and rep...
Attorneys defending malpractice actions must meet the higher bar of demonstrating that the claim against them "arises from" th...
Sometimes interns come to learn, sometimes to teach. By Lynn Duryee and Joshua A. Gonzalez ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
What's to become of mediation in Southern California?
By Ben Armisteadn
Will the courts' dockets become so crowded with unresolved matters that trial dates extend past the 5-year mandatory date as t...
As with any new technology, proper regulation of these cars and their "drivers" is critical. By Dylan Ruga ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
To tell or not to tell, that is the question
By Ben Armisteadn
Despite best efforts, you hire a paralegal or lateral who, as it turns out, worked on the other side of a litigation matter in...
California Supreme Court
State high court to rule on challenges to same-sex marriage implementation
By Emily Green
In a legal challenge over the resumption of same-sex marriages in the state, the California Supreme Court issued a compressed ...
Intellectual Property
Latham, Kasowitz win patent trial in language translation company case
By Kevin Lee
A little more than two months after officially joining the Menlo Park office of Latham & Watkins LLP, Douglas E. Lumish sc...
Judges and Judiciary
Governor appoints 11 to superior courts across the state
By Paul Jones
Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday named Rupa S. Goswami to the bench in Los Angeles County. She will be the first female South Asian ...
Filed in the Central District, the suit requests declaratory and injunctive relief to force the CDCR to create new policies to...
Litigation
Plaintiffs' firms pursuing lawsuits that claim price-fixing by vehicle shipping companies
By Hadley Robinson
Lawsuits have started piling up over allegations that shipping companies conspired to fix and stabilize prices to transport ve...
Law Practice
Former Department of Labor representative joins Stroz Friedberg
By Henry Meier
Alicia Villarreal, who left her position in June as the western region representative to outgoing Department of Labor Secretar...
Torrance-based Robinson Helicopter Company Inc., the largest maker of civilian helicopters in the world, may be liable for the...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court's clerk has long ties to the justices
By Emily Green
Few people are as familiar with the inner workings of the state Supreme Court and its justices as Frank McGuire. As the court'...
Administrative/Regulatory
Governor strikes at debt collection abuse
By Chase Scheinbaum
Gov. Jerry Brown late last week signed into law a measure to protect consumers against the abusive debt-collection practices ...
U.S. District Judge, Central District (Santa Ana) ...
Rimon PC opened a San Diego office in June by acquiring Cross Border Law Group PC. Partner Juan E. Zuniga, founder of the firm...
Justice Judith McConnell of the 4th District has shattered many glass ceilings in her career.
Attorneys say Judge Patrick Henry Donahue presides over cases without 'masking his humanity.'
Litigation
Lead paint trial, starting Monday, poses new threat to corporate defendants
By Saul Sugarman
A trial set to start Monday in Santa Clara County Superior Court might tip the scale in favor of plaintiffs who have been tryi...
Will lifting the ban on general solicitation mean we'll suddenly be inundated with ads for hedge fund investments? Not likely....
"The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" takes the reader out of the clichéd view of Parks as the quiet seamstress, and reveal...
Perspective
Impact of high court's arbitration ruling in California uncertain
By Ben Armisteadn
It remains to be seen how California employers will be impacted by the US high court's ruling in Italian Colors; the st...
HBO's "Gideon's Army" explores the crisis in the criminal justice system that is hampered by an overworked and underpaid staff...
Several years ago, serving a summons and complaint electronically was all but unknown. In many circumstances today, e-service ...
For the fifth consecutive year, the Los Angeles legal community came together for the Food From The Bar campaign, which collec...
Niels B. Schaumann was installed as the ninth president and dean of California Western School of Law on June 28. He assumed hi...