Solo and Small Firms
Cole Pedroza LLP has developed 'big firm' practice style
By Ameera Buttn
Cole Pedroza LLP may be a six-lawyer law firm, but it's developed a "big firm" practice style capable of handling trial, appel...
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth PC took the "Lawyers Have Heart" prize, with the largest team among law firms at the Orang...
Government
Supreme Court appoints bar trustees selection group members
By Don De Benedictis
The state Supreme Court appointed a committee of prominent lawyers and judges Thursday to help it select members of the State ...
Obituaries
Stephen Monaghan Kelly, the longtime clerk of the 4th District Court of Appeal, has died
By Emily Green
Kelly served as clerk of the 4th District Court of Appeals for 25 years and had worked in the California court system for 40. ...
Approximately 1,200 people were in attendance at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 31 to help celebrate Bet Tzedek's 39th annua...
The California Judicial Council recently announced the creation of a Technology Planning Task Force, which will work with cour...
The Los Angeles County Bar Association's litigation section held its 2013 Bench Meets the Bar Luncheon on Jan. 30, bringing to...
Litigation
S&P hires Keker & Van Nest LLP to help defend against federal charges
By Hadley Robinson
A financial products rating agency targeted by federal prosecutors has called on prominent San Francisco-based attorneys John ...
State officials on Wednesday responded to a federal court order with indignance, arguing it would be "improper" for the court ...
A bill to allow businesses 14 days to post Prop. 65 signs warning of hazardous substances may be the opening salvo in an effor...
On Jan. 17, the Orange County Bar Association presented Orange County Superior Court Judge Francisco Firmat with the Franklin ...
Criminal
Law enforcement lawyers express disbelief over alleged retaliation shootings
By Henry Meier
Attorneys who represent law enforcement personnel were in disbelief Thursday over an unfolding situation involving a former LA...
Even with decades of experience in family and probate law, retired judge-turned-mediator Rosemary Pfeiffer has her work cut ou...
Observers expect the evolution in digital content distribution to continue as not only Internet companies but sophisticated br...
At a time when online, personalized legal services are becoming big money generators, LegalForce founder and CEO Raj Abhyanker...
California Supreme Court
State high court OKs mixed-motives defense in discrimination cases
By Emily Green
Employers can avoid economic and emotional distress liability in discrimination cases if they prove they would have taken the ...
International law firm Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP named Matthew J. Kemner as the firm's chair. Kemner , whose work i...
A weekly roundup of mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of American Realty Advisors Glendale ...
I really wonder how much money from individual taxes is going to pay for judgments or settlements by the LAUSD because of resp...
Perspective
Weapons regulation: 'a national interest of very nearly the first magnitude'
By Ben Armisteadn
President Barack Obama can achieve gun control through a treaty. No doubt this would be controversial. By Joseph F.C. DiMento ...
San Francisco has become one of the leaders of an emerging movement, called "electric aggregation," where cities buy cheap bul...
Perspective
Goodwill: If you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
By Ben Armisteadn
Dry Canyon held that a trial court must find that a business owner had goodwill to lose before the owner is entitled to...
Litigation
California to host two major class actions, including lithium ion battery case
By Hadley Robinson
A judicial panel decided this week that California is the right venue for two major class actions, including one accusing a gr...
MGA Entertainment Inc. asked a local court Monday to void last month's preliminary arbitration award of $23 million for unpaid...
Real Estate/Development
Death of redevelopment agencies provides new life for public-private partnerships
By Alexandra Schwappach
Public-private partnerships - projects funded and operated through a joining of government and private sector companies - are ...
Government
San Bernardino County officials huddling to plot next move after adverse court ruling
By Katie Lucia
San Bernardino County officials are meeting this week to decide their next move after a judge tossed the county's central clai...
Litigation
Jury to hear case of man, 25, who died after clinical trial
By Ryne Hodkowski
A Los Angeles jury is set to hear arguments next week in a hotly contested case in which the parents of a 25-year-old man cont...
Litigation
Fearing homelessness, law library sues San Francisco over alleged charter violation
By Hadley Robinson
Fearing the San Francisco Law Library will be literally homeless come May when its current space is closed for renovations, it...
Litigation
Former Universal Pictures executive sues LAPD over alleged beating
By Henry Meier
A former Universal Pictures and Deutsche Bank executive filed a $20 million civil suit Wednesday, alleging two members of the ...