U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Flight school students must arbitrate claims against lenders, 9th Circuit rules
By Saul Sugarman
Former students of a defunct private helicopter school in Oakland must arbitrate claims against their tuition lenders, instead...
The Friends of the Los Angeles County Law Library presented their annual Beacon of Justice Award to Judge Lee Smalley Edmon, f...
The manner in which an insurer observes its contractual duties, not whether it breached an express contract term, forms...
A Los Angeles area attorney has been charged with smuggling drugs into a jail for his client, the Los Angeles district attorne...
The city of Ontario filed a claim against Los Angeles Thursday in an effort to wrest control of the struggling L.A./Ontario In...
Oakland officials may face sanctions for limiting the work of a compliance director charged with reforming the city's police d...
Law Practice
Jones Day poaches Wilson Sonsini labor and employment co-chair
By Joshua Seboldn
Jones Day has snatched Fred W. Alvarez from Wilson Sonini Goodrich & Rosati PC in Palo Alto, where he was co-chair of the ...
Members and friends of the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California convened in downtown Los Angeles in March to cel...
Environmental
Court affirms certain residential developments exempt from CEQA review
By Ben Armisteadn
An appellate court upheld a city's affirmation that residential developments are exempt from CEQA review if the development is...
Community News
Judge Thelton Henderson speaks with high school about the law
By John Michael
Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson visited Thurgood Marshall Academic High School in San Francisco as pa...
A three-judge panel on Thursday denied the state's motion to vacate a 2009 court order that prisons be brought to 137.5 percen...
MedeAnalytics Inc., an Emeryville-based health care performance consultant and data analytics company, announced the appointme...
Intellectual Property
Human gene patents, biotech industry face Supreme Court scrutiny
By Kevin Lee
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider whether scientifically altered human genes are patentable in what several legal obse...
His name, Marc Toberoff, first came up on a Web search. It was 2001. Mark Warren Peary, the nephew of Joe Shuster, the comic w...
Global transparency is coming if it isn't already upon us. And with the intersection of technology, Twitter, WikiLeaks and the...
Litigation
Prenda Law fires back over possible sanctions relating to porn copyright litigation
By Henry Meier
Facing sanctions that could include jail time, attorneys who filed controversial suits against users who allegedly downloaded ...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Law Practice
San Francisco-based Farella Braun & Martel continues on its independent course
By Joshua Seboldn
San Francisco-based Farella Braun & Martel LLP has stayed independent even as many other small and mid-size firms have mer...
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of LegalZoom.com Inc. Glendale ...
Ensuring consistency in expert opinion by simply deferring to whichever opinion was offered first fails to realize that scienc...
Concerns that a single woman who chooses to have a child using donor sperm will lose all protection from parentage claims unde...
Perspective
High court's first-sale ruling unlikely to impact patent exhaustion theories
By Ben Armisteadn
Many were surprised that after Kirtsaeng, the Supreme Court denied a petition to review the Federal Circuit's ruling th...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Police cannot hold someone in custody over infraction, 9th Circuit rules
By John Roemer
Police in California cannot take you into custody following a routine arrest for an infraction, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...
Labor/Employment
House committee advances bill to halt NLRB operations
By Laura Hautalan
The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on a bill that would halt the National Labor Relations Board from conducting ...
Law Practice
Brown Rudnick capitalizes on boutique's local ties to break into Southern California
By Alexandra Schwappach
International firm Brown Rudnick LLP won't be starting from scratch with its first foray into the West Coast after its merger ...
Maybe it was the proximity to America's gambling mecca, but ever since John C. Hueston secured a pre-trial dismissal of mortga...
Latham & Watkins LLP and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP are representing homebuilder William Lyon Homes and the u...
In a major coup for Bingham McCutchen LLP, noted intellectual property litigator Richard de Bodo and four colleagues from DLA ...
State Bar leaders on Thursday will begin exploring the idea of licensing nonlawyers to provide certain legal services to consu...
Jones Day represented a private tenant-in-common entity, sponsored by Thompson National Properties LLC, in purchasing a 102,00...