Perspective
Continental: policyholders entitled to full limits on all triggered policies
By Karen Natividadn
The decision should enhance policyholders' ability to obtain coverage for progressive damage occurring over many years. By Bro...
In the technology and creative sectors, copyright is king. By Richard E. Neff of Neff Law Firm ...
Perspective
Pinnacle: the latest on the enforceability of arbitration clauses
By Ben Armisteadn
The state Supreme Court surprised many observers by reversing a trend of lower court decisions. By Valentine S. Hoy and Timoth...
Travel websites Expedia and Travelocity are among several accused of price fixing in a proposed class action filed in the Nort...
Criminal
Prosecutors banding together in effort to defeat death penalty repeal
By Henry Meier
Support for capital punishment among California prosecutors runs high and many are banding together to try to defeat an attemp...
EIG Global Energy Partners LLC, a spinoff of investment firm The TCW Group Inc., has filed a federal lawsuit in an effort to h...
Litigation
Clovis sex education policy violates state law, lawsuit claims
By Fiona Smith
Concerned parents and a chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics sued the Clovis Unified School District Monday, arguing ...
U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips of Riverside has been removed from a case for failing to call for a competency hearing f...
The State Bar appears to be closer to buying a building for its Los Angeles headquarters. ...
Lawrence M. Chu officially joined Goodwin Procter LLP's Menlo Park office Monday, becoming the latest Wilson Sonsini Goodrich ...
Los Angeles has been without an NFL team since 1994 yet finds itself as the league's venue of choice for its lawsuit against 3...
Intellectual Property
Apple, Samsung attorneys clash in closing statements of major patent trial
By Craig Andersonn
In closing arguments Tuesday, lawyers for Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. laid out different reasons why the stake...
Audit blames state judicial branch's lack of involvement for building program's inefficiency ...
Superior Court Judge San Francisco County ...
Toshiba Corp. has agreed to settle claims with a group of plaintiffs that last month won an $87 million verdict against the el...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Movie director must serve year in prison in Pellicano scandal, appeals court rules
By John Roemer
Like a movie plot where the hero gets ever deeper in trouble, Hollywood director John McTiernan managed on Monday to dig himse...
Letter to the Editor
Think of the precision: new words for every 'marriage'
By Ben Armisteadn
Some suggest that perhaps the two camps in "the culture war" over gay marriage could get along if we just adopted a new word. ...
Neutral mediation of disputes among co-owners of a business can be the key to the business's survival. By Joel Fishman of Glad...
Plaintiffs must show that defendants had knowledge of direct infringement by a third party, among other things, to prevail. By...
Computer simulations present a conclusion of the computer based upon the formulas programmed to use the raw data entere...
Judges and Judiciary
In rare step, Alsup writes a letter to 9th Circuit rebutting attorney
By Fiona Smith
U.S. District Judge William Alsup took the rare step Monday of writing to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to dispute an ...
Intellectual Property
Federal judge nixes Facebook class action settlement
By Ben Adlin
A federal judge has scuttled a proposed settlement between Facebook Inc. and class-action plaintiffs, noting "serious concerns...
Intellectual Property
Judge takes away Apple advantage in Samsung trial jury instructions
By Craig Andersonn
In a late victory for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and its attorneys at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, a federal j...
Criminal
Senate passes bill to give life imprisoned juveniles chance at parole
By Henry Meier
The California Senate passed a bill Monday that would allow juveniles currently sentenced to life without the possibility of p...
On January 20, 2013, one president of the United States will be sworn into office. That same day, two co-presidents of San Fra...
The legal malpractice suit Hollywood dealmaker David Bergstein is waging against his longtime counsel, Susan H. Tregub, was h...
San Jose-based Adobe Systems Inc. has appointed a new general counsel, the company announced Monday. Dillon replaces Karen Cot...
State Bar & Bar Associations
In first, legislator names lawyer to State Bar board
By Don Debenedictisn
In a first step toward changing how lawyers go on the State Bar governing board, Speaker of the Assembly Luis A. Perez named m...
Intellectual Property
Google must provide more information about financial relationships, judge rules
By Hadley Robinson
A federal judge wants more information from Google Inc. about its financial relationships with journalists, commenters and blo...
Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Los Angeles) ...