The Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel held an awards luncheon on Jan. 13 at the House of Blues music venue in Wes...
Inner City Law Center held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday to celebrate the opening of its expanded space on Los Angeles’ do...
Organized by the Open Courts Coalition, the "Stand Up for Justice" rally drew more than 100 people and temporarily closed dow...
General Counsel for Legendary Entertainment Burbank ...
For closely-held businesses, often, familiarity does indeed breed contempt. By Jim Scheinkman and Katy Annuschat of Snell &...
Perspective
License or sale? Another digital disaster for the recording industry
By Michael Leen
A 9th Circuit ruling may land yet another costly body blow to an industry already sufferming from the digital revolution in mu...
Environmental
Environmental analysis of project not required, says court
By Michael Leen
This is the fourth decision holding that CEQA does not require analysis of the environment's impact on a project. By Chelsea M...
A state appellate court ruled Wednesday that a trial judge does have jurisdiction to decide whether various Southern Californi...
Real Estate/Development
Lawyers see signs of thawing in real estate market
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
For the first time in several years industry optimism has some hard evidence behind it, according to the latest semiannual rep...
In 1967, civil rights attorney Philip J. Hirschkop won the landmark case that declared unconstitutional laws banning interraci...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar president hopes to increase opportunities for lawyer parents
By Don Debenedictisn
Dimetria A. Jackson hopes to increase networking opportunities for lawyer parents when she takes over as president of the Oran...
A roundup of opinions issued by the high court. ...
The Long Beach City Council for a second time has delayed a vote on whether to ban medical marijuana dispensaries. Council mem...
The emerging field of neuroscience claims that a criminal's brain is different from the norm. By Joseph N. Sorrentino ...
California Supreme Court
High court steps into medical marijuana debate by agreeing to review cases
By Laura Ernden
The state Supreme Court decided Wednesday to take another look at California's medical marijuana laws, this time to sort out w...
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court mulls rule allowing parent's residency to apply to child
By Robert Iafolla
The U.S. Supreme Court weighed Wednesday a pro-immigrant rule unique to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that makes a par...
Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye on Wednesday appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Emilie H. Elias to the state ...
A state appellate court has revived a class action against retailer Brookstone for illegally collecting customers' ZIP codes a...
Law Practice
Client conflicts keep eight Rutter Hobbs lawyers from joining Greenberg Glusker
By Casey Sullivan
A group of eight Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff Inc. lawyers slated to join Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP ...
Management of the state prisons' medical and mental health facilities will continue to be in the hands of a federally appointe...
Holland & Knight LLP hired a securities litigation specialist in San Francisco as it continues to expand in California, t...
A federal court threw out a case Wednesday where a group of American Indians claimed rights to a vast ranch north of Los Angel...
Oracle Corp.'s difficulty in putting together a damages expert's report that would satisfy a San Francisco federal judge illus...
Irell & Manella LLP has selected an intellectual property litigator to serve as the firm's new managing partner. ...
A plaintiffs' lawyer who played a leading role in the $660 million sexual abuse settlement with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese...
U.S. Supreme Court
High court upholds copyright law for foreign works
By Robert Iafolla
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a copyright law Wednesday that gives legal protection to millions of works by foreign authors th...
Core values 'head, heart, hands and health' served Kelly Doblado well as a child and now in court.
RoganLehrman LLP, a general practice firm, and Trope & DeCarolis, LLP, a family law firm, both leased space on the 13th fl...