California Supreme Court
The final word: Civil law developments in the state Supreme Court
By Michael Leen
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...
Boston-based Bingham McCutchen LLP is launching a new back-office operations center in Lexington, Ky. in an effort to consolid...
Personal Injury & Torts
Punitive damages permitted in SLO medical malpractice case
By Alexandra Schwappach
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
Law firm's right to shield financial documents up for debate
By John Roemer
A law firm's disputed right to shield a client's financial documents from the Internal Revenue Service is set for oral argumen...
Litigation
San Francisco plaintiff's attorney wins wrongful death verdict
By Saul Sugarman
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
Film financier claims firms pushed his companies into bankruptcy
By Jean Yung
In the microcosm of lawsuits orbiting Hollywood financiers and recent nemeses David Bergstein and David Molner, two law firms ...
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
Neutral uses fellowship to foster mediation overseas
By Connie Lopez
The Weinstein International Fellowship Program provides grants of up to $25,000 to help people from other countries study ADR ...
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
Sex offender residential requirements unconstitutional, court rules
By Emily Green
A blanket restriction prohibiting sex offenders from living near places where children congregate is unconstitutional, an appe...
Gaston & Gaston APLC inked a 66-month, 9,880 square foot lease on the 24th floor of 1010 2nd Ave. in downtown San Diego.
The family law division at the Los Angeles County Superior Court has taken a lot of budget cuts in the past year, but lawyers ...
Producers need to be careful in defining the scope of territories granted to distributors, as well as knowing what kind of "di...
What happens to the ability to terminate copyright transfers during divorce? By Ivan Hoffman ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court clears officers and stun gun company of liability
By Henry Meier
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court ruling clearing two police officers and a stun gun manufacturer ...
Environmental
Brown signs bill limiting government's ability to collect wildfire damages
By Fiona Smith
Gov. Jerry Brown signed timber industry reform legislation Tuesday that includes a limit on government's ability to collect da...
Product Liability
Plaintiffs' hair-trimmer blaze trial fizzles out with defense verdict
By Ben Adlin
Two parents' effort to hold the maker of a mustache trimmer responsible for their son's death recently fell short after the co...
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
State Bar to buy new Los Angeles headquarters building
By Don Debenedictisn
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
In 9th Circuit, Microsoft and Google fight for advantage in patent wars
By John Roemer
New chess moves in the high technology patent wars played out Tuesday at an oral argument session before a 9th U.S. Circuit Co...
U.S. Magistrate Judge
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP Los Angeles Litigation and corporate counseling Specialty: advising board
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
Chuck Yeager, who broke the sound barrier, loses at 9th Circuit
By Emily Green
Yeager submitted a "sham" declaration when he filed an affidavit with the district court providing details he claimed not to r...
Perspective
Borrowers have standing to sue lenders lacking authority to enforce notes
By Ben Armisteadn
If the note is not validly endorsed to the servicer's principal, neither the principal nor its servicing agent can enforce it ...
Perspective
Termination of copyright transfers and probate proceedings
By Karen Natividadn
In some cases, statutory parties may have the right to override and "bump" the parties named in the will and the transfer by w...
Even as the provision of medicine continues to improve, the lack of unity among Americans as to how health care should be mana...
U.S. District Court Judge Rudi M. Brewster, a respected senior jurist who was a hallmark of the Southern District, died Frida...
Sungevity Inc., a residential solar company headquartered in Oakland, has appointed a new general counsel, the company announc...
