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California Courts of Appeal
Appellate court overturns landmark education settlement
By Emily Green
A state appellate court has overturned a landmark education settlement that allowed the Los Angeles Unified School District to...
State Bar & Bar Associations
LACBA Armed Forces Committee helps, serves military veterans
By Ameera Buttn
A little more than a year since its inception, the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Armed Forces committee has mobilized i...
Litigation
Muslim woman sues Disneyland, claims she lost her job for wearing headscarf
By Don Debenedictisn
A Muslim woman sued Disneyland on Monday claiming she was forced out of her job for wearing a headscarf. The suit is one of se...
Yahoo Inc. announced Monday the appointment of Ronald S. Bell as general counsel. ...
Intellectual Property
Apple rests high-stakes patent case against Samsung
By Craig Andersonn
Apple Inc. rested its case Monday in the high-stakes patent and trade dress infringement trial against Samsung Electronics Co....
Perspective
Can all the king's men put our broken legal system together again?
By Michael Leen
Even if the previous budget cuts went unnoticed by the public, the more recent cuts will definitely be felt by all. By Sarah K...
Obituaries
Greenberg Traurig partner M. Sean McMillan dies in plane crash
By Henry Meier
Greenberg Traurig partner M. Sean McMillan died Friday after the small plane he was piloting crashed into a residential area a...
The effort to renovate a Southern California city's only mosque now centers on a controversial federal statute that some say h...
Judge Suzanne H. Segal's career has taken her from Capitol Hill to the federal bench. ...
Corporate
Pillsbury aids Tesoro’s bid to become state’s largest oil refiner
By Kevin Lee
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP represented Tesoro Corp. in an agreement with BP PLC that would see the San Antonio-based ...
Forestry and logging groups, stormwater managers and government entities will be all ears when these decisions come down; priv...
Judges and Judiciary
Modest proposal to loosen budget constraints on courts
By Michael Leen
We're not helpless with respect to passing the costs associated with providing a court reporter on to clients. By Matthew L. K...
Personal Injury & Torts
Is the primary assumption of risk doctrine on its way out the door?
By Karen Natividadn
The Supreme Court's decision in Nawla may answer that question soon. By Donald R. Wild and James J. Patrick of Wild, Ca...
The major broadcast networks are serious about their campaign to halt tech ventures that stream broadcast TV online, even if t...
An appeal of a judge’s decision to uphold ballot language for a proposition on the state’s November ballot was turned down yes...
Sabal Financial Group LP , a privately held diversified financial services firm headquartered in Newport Beach, has appointed ...
A roundup of the recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Superior Court Judge ...
Criminal
Lawyers anxiously await new U.S. undocumented immigrant policy
By Henry Meier
Immigration attorneys and community groups are gearing up for a U.S. policy change allowing young undocumented immigrants temp...