The U.S. high court has refused to hear one state's appeal asking for reversal of an unfavorable decision enjoining law enforc...
Can a website and its support staff become an in-house counsel of sorts for real estate brokerages and agents? A pair of law f...
Labor/Employment
Circuit grants Wal-Mart review of class certification in seating suit
By Laura Hautalan
A group of cashiers hit a roadblock in their case for seated workstations Wednesday when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Criminal
Prosecutors charge attorney, former Angels baseball star with insider trading
By Ben Adlin
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles filed insider trading charges against former baseball star Doug DeCinces, Newport Beach att...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit finds police illegally frisked teen and reverse conviction on drug charges
By Fiona Smith
A federal appellate panel on Wednesday reversed the conviction of a teenager on drug possession charges ruling that the police...
Education
Most law schools saw enrollment shrink this year, new ABA data shows
By Don Debenedictisn
Almost three-fourths of law schools nationally enrolled fewer students in fall 2012 than the year before, according to the ABA...
In a win for environmentalists who are pushing California to take a tougher look at the impacts of oil drilling, state regulat...
Law Practice
Heller estate pursues clawback claims against several law firms
By Kevin Lee
As the four-year anniversary of Heller Ehrman LLP's bankruptcy nears, the estate is mired in a complex legal battle against fo...
Government
San Bernardino County may sue San Bernardino to collect $1.5 million in debt
By Katie Lucia
San Bernardino County is seeking more than $1.5 million in debts owed by the city of San Bernardino as the city awaits a rulin...
The three-way merger between international firms SNR Denton, Salans LLP and Canadian firm Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP won final...
Litigation
Federal judges to consider challenge to state law banning gay conversion therapy
By Hadley Robinson
As federal judges consider a preliminary injunction on a new California law banning gay conversion therapy for minors, U.S. Re...
Intellectual Property
EFF hopes to use new law to challenge 3D printing patents
By Rachel Swan
The San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard University's Cyberlaw Clinic have joined forces to use a ne...
Intellectual Property
Haynes & Boone gets $8.5 million settlement for client
By Rachel Swan
Irvine-based attorneys at Haynes and Boone LLP scored a huge victory in a trademark and trade dress infringement case over hai...
After announcing his planned departure from SanDisk Corp. to return to private practice, the company's longtime chief legal of...
More details emerged Tuesday regarding the L.A. County Superior Court's impending budget cuts for fiscal year 2013-2014. Pers...
Terre Verde Group LLC, a real estate investment company, acquired Ranch Las Flores, a 9,850-acre master-planned residential co...
In an ever-changing corporate climate, chief legal officers are taking an increasingly active role in business decisions, top ...
Can an employer refuse to reinstate an employee that it discovers is working another job while on medical leave? A recent opin...
Labor/Employment
NLRB's 24 Hour Fitness ruling consistent with precedent
By Ben Armisteadn
The ruling reaffirms decades of precedent affirming the principle that employers cannot enter into individual agreements with ...
Governance methods, operating procedures and protocol that worked when firms had 20, 50, even 70 partners, became increasingly...
Have you ever dreamed of traveling the world while somehow managing to make money on the road? Here's one attorney's story. By...
San Bernardino is trying to reject its CalPERS contract as an executory contract in its bankruptcy case -- raising some intere...
Citing federal law, a Los Angeles attorney has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block the transfer of 110 chimpanzees from o...
California Courts of Appeal
Appeals court deals setback to UC Santa Cruz expansion effort
By Fiona Smith
A state appellate court dealt a setback to the University of California's effort to expand its Santa Cruz campus, ruling Tuesd...
Litigation
Hewlett-Packard faces shareholder lawsuit as FBI probes Autonomy acquisition
By Hadley Robinson
The litigation has officially started in the debacle of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s losing acquisition of Autonomy Corp. PLC last ye...
Well-regarded intellectual property attorney Carol L. Smith, a former Intel Corp. lawyer who built a repuation helping younger...
Corporate
Wilson Sonsini aids solar installer as it revises down IPO expectations
By David Ruiz
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC is representing San Mateo-based solar panel installer SolarCity Corp. in its plans to ...
UCLA School of Law announced Tuesday the launch of a new master of laws specialization in law and sexuality geared at providin...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cloud company purchases prize growth potential as well as employees
By David Ruiz
Recent purchases in cloud computing have varied in size and value, but in most cases the buyers have sought a solid employee t...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Appeals court reverses drug conviction
By Saul Sugarman
A federal appellate panel on Tuesday reversed a conviction against an immigrant from El Salvador who lost a jury trial accusin...
