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California Supreme Court


A convenient way to track the state Supreme Court's most important civil law cases. By Joseph M. Lipner and BJ Ard of Irell &a...


Law Practice


Bingham opens back-office service center

Sep. 14, 2012
By Kevin Lee

Boston-based Bingham McCutchen LLP is launching a new back-office operations center in Lexington, Ky. in an effort to consolid...


Personal Injury & Torts


A plaintiff alleging medical malpractice will be allowed to seek punitive damages against a San Luis Obispo physician and hosp...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


A law firm's disputed right to shield a client's financial documents from the Internal Revenue Service is set for oral argumen...


Litigation


A San Francisco-based plaintiff's attorney on Wednesday obtained a jury verdict for more than $1 million in damages in a wrong...


Entertainment & Sports


In the microcosm of lawsuits orbiting Hollywood financiers and recent nemeses David Bergstein and David Molner, two law firms ...


Litigation


How much room does a chicken need to do a pirouette? In a sense, that was the crux of a Riverside County egg farmer's lawsuit ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


The Weinstein International Fellowship Program provides grants of up to $25,000 to help people from other countries study ADR ...


Environmental


Newhall Ranch developers face new opposition

Sep. 14, 2012
By Fiona Smith

Developers of the Newhall Ranch, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, have a growing fight on their hands as environmentalists are...


California Courts of Appeal


A blanket restriction prohibiting sex offenders from living near places where children congregate is unconstitutional, an appe...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Deals

Sep. 13, 2012
By Connie Lopezn

Gaston & Gaston APLC inked a 66-month, 9,880 square foot lease on the 24th floor of 1010 2nd Ave. in downtown San Diego.


Family


For LA family courts, less is more

Sep. 13, 2012
By Brian Sumersn

The family law division at the Los Angeles County Superior Court has taken a lot of budget cuts in the past year, but lawyers ...


Top 100


2012 Top 100 Lawyers

Sep. 13, 2012
By Riley Guerin


Entertainment & Sports


Domestic film distribution 101

Sep. 13, 2012
By Michael Leen

Producers need to be careful in defining the scope of territories granted to distributors, as well as knowing what kind of "di...


Family


Termination of transfers and divorce

Sep. 13, 2012
By Karen Natividadn

What happens to the ability to terminate copyright transfers during divorce? By Ivan Hoffman ...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court ruling clearing two police officers and a stun gun manufacturer ...


Gov. Jerry Brown signed timber industry reform legislation Tuesday that includes a limit on government's ability to collect da...


Two parents' effort to hold the maker of a mustache trimmer responsible for their son's death recently fell short after the co...


Corporate


Leap Motion adds first general counsel

Sep. 13, 2012
By David Mc Afee

Leap Motion Inc., a motion-control software and hardware company based in San Francisco, has appointed its first chief legal o...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The State Bar intends to buy a small office building near the downtown Los Angeles Staples Center as its new headquarters in t...


Intellectual Property


New chess moves in the high technology patent wars played out Tuesday at an oral argument session before a 9th U.S. Circuit Co...


Judicial Profile


Mitchell D. Dembin

Sep. 13, 2012
By Jean Yung

U.S. Magistrate Judge


Top 100


Ronald L. Olson

Sep. 12, 2012
By Ameera Buttn

Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP Los Angeles Litigation and corporate counseling Specialty: advising board


Top 100


Editor's Note

Sep. 12, 2012
By David Houston

This is the 15th year the Daily Journal has published a list of California's 100 leading lawyers


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


Yeager submitted a "sham" declaration when he filed an affidavit with the district court providing details he claimed not to r...


If the note is not validly endorsed to the servicer's principal, neither the principal nor its servicing agent can enforce it ...


Perspective


In some cases, statutory parties may have the right to override and "bump" the parties named in the will and the transfer by w...


Perspective


Health care: division hinders progress

Sep. 12, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

Even as the provision of medicine continues to improve, the lack of unity among Americans as to how health care should be mana...


Obituaries


U.S. District Court Judge Rudi M. Brewster, a respected senior jurist who was a hallmark of the Southern District, died Frida...


Corporate


Residential solar company hires new GC

Sep. 12, 2012
By David Mc Afee

Sungevity Inc., a residential solar company headquartered in Oakland, has appointed a new general counsel, the company announc...