Todd B. Scherwin, who spent eight years as a partner in the firm's Irvine office, heads to Los Angeles in an effort to grow bu...
Public Interest
Suit alleges hazardous conditions at apartment building
By Connie Lopezn
Kabateck Brown Kellner LLP filed a lawsuit Thursday against New Hampshire Apartment Inc. and Affordable Housing Alternative fo...
Judges and Judiciary
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston announces plan to take senior status
By Hadley Robinson
Sen. Barbara Boxer's judicial advisory committee is already getting applications to fill the position of U.S. District Judge S...
The Legal Aid Association of California, the statewide membership organization of nonprofit legal services programs, held an a...
Litigation
City of Oakland loses bid to stop federal government from shutting down pot dispensary
By Hadley Robinson
The city of Oakland's legal effort to stop the federal government from shutting down the country's largest not-for-profit medi...
Mattel Inc. Wednesday asked a federal court to let it step aside while rival MGA Entertainment Inc. and its insurers and legal...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit overturns dismissal of price-fixing case
By John Roemer
U.S. District Judge Susan Y. Illston of San Francisco was wrong to dismiss a price-fixing case by mobile phone companies again...
H.J. Heinz Co. is being purchased by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and 3G Capital Management LLC for $28 billion in cash, the larges...
Community News
Legal professionals focus on diversity and preparing the next generation
By John Michael
On Feb. 7, Hogan Lovells and Fox Entertainment Group partnered with UCLA School of Law's Critical Race Studies Department and ...
"The most sacred of the duties of a government is to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens." To accomplish this g...
Judicate West neutral Linda Quinn has a mission to help ease the courts' budgetary woes.
The Orange County Trial Lawyers Association celebrated its 50th anniversary and installed its officers and board of directors ...
Real Estate/Development
Apartment frenzy spurs concerns of a bubble
By Alexandra Schwappach
Lawyers are treading cautiously amid concerns that an uptick in apartment prices, coupled with deal competition and a possible...
Thomas Jefferson School of Law held its 13th annual Women and the Law Conference on Feb. 8 on its new campus in downtown San D...
After a year of merger talks, US Airways and American Airlines have reached an agreement that would combine the companies, cre...
A federal bankruptcy judge will allow former employees of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP to bring a putative class action against the...
O'Melveny & Myers LLP represented Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in Samsung Electronics America Inc.'s purchase of NeuroLo...
An Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday highlighted the impact of funding cuts to courts over the years and warned wor...
Litigation
Former general counsel stands alone in SEC stock options backdating case
By Hadley Robinson
After losing a bid to get the case against her dismissed Wednesday, Susan Skaer - the former general counsel at Mercury Intera...
California Supreme Court
Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye visits San Francisco high school, charms students with humor
By Emily Green
Speaking at a San Francisco public high school Wednesday, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye emphasized her life story as the y...
Securities
Defendants face criminal securities fraud charges in alleged investment scam
By Henry Meier
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District filed criminal securities fraud charges against 16 defendants who together...
Orange County officials on Wednesday agreed to allow Muslim women to wear hijabs, or religious scarves, during their time in t...
In recent years, some DA offices have created conviction integrity units to double-check the work of prosecutors to ensure con...
California Supreme Court
High court agrees to hear arguments in bribery case
By Katie Lucia
The state Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear arguments on whether to reinstate certain bribery charges against defendants ...
IMT Capital LLC, a private equity firm, and its affiliate apartment operator Sherman Oaks-based IMT Residential, purchased the...
Immigration
Immigrants who fear gang members may be granted asylum, 9th Circuit rules
By John Roemer
More immigrants who confront street gangs in their home countries may merit asylum, thanks to a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...
The U.S. government received and approved record numbers of initial EB-5 application forms last year, and lawyers saw plenty o...
Labor/Employment
San Diego pension reform inititiative unlawful, PERB judge says
By Laura Hautalan
The decision held that then-Mayor Jerry Sanders was obligated to negotiate the measure with labor unions before taking it to v...
Gov. Brown's State of the State speech included this statement: "Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not jus...
Police departments may have a cold case unit for very old crimes, but no proactive unit to deal with ticking time bombs in the...