Why lawyers need to watch out during this special time of year. By Robert Wood of Wood LLP ...
Labor/Employment
Class actions: One step forward after two steps back
By Karen Natividadn
Score one for employees in the fight over wage and hour class actions. By Dennis Moss and H. Scott Leviant of Spiro Moss ...
Perspective
Guantanamo Bay: It’s time to transfer the remaining Afghan detainees
By Michael Leen
The war in Afghanistan is ending, so why are there still Afghans in Guantanamo Bay? By Anne Richardson of Hadsell Stormer Keen...
As the result of a recent state Supreme Court decision eliminating local redevelopment agencies, cities across California will...
The recent retirements of several prominent Los Angeles County Superior Court judges has stoked fears by some in the civil lit...
A lawsuit alleging the owners of one of Southern California’s largest Jewish cemeteries desecrated graves will proceed to tria...
California Courts of Appeal
Judge's criminal sentencing practices rebuffed by appellate panel
By Laura Ernden
A practice that judges routinely use to settle criminal cases was challenged Tuesday by a divided 6th District Court of Appeal...
The U.S. Supreme Court again backed arbitration over litigation Tuesday, ruling that a consumer protection law guaranteeing th...
U.S. Supreme Court
Justices consider role of broadcasting in digital era
By Robert Iafolla
Despite the shrinking influence of broadcast television in American life, the U.S. Supreme Court signaled Tuesday that it has ...
A group of eight car washes statewide settled an employment-related lawsuit Tuesday filed by the state attorney general's offi...
Changes at the top are in store for Silicon Valley mainstay Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC as the firm has selected t...
U.S. Supreme Court
High court reverses 9th Circuit on private prison suit
By Robert Iafolla
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Tuesday that inmates serving time in privately managed federal prisons don't have the same abil...
A Superior Court judge on Tuesday denied a convicted killer's request for a new trial, despite the fact a key witness recanted...
Production company Crusader Entertainment LLC is asking a state appellate court to review its dispute with novelist Clive Cuss...
A rare criminal price-fixing trial kicked off in the Northern District Tuesday and promises to be fierce: barely an hour into ...
University of La Verne College of Law's dean abruptly resigned Monday, an action coming as the school struggles to regain prov...
Law Practice
Departures threaten to close Baker & McKenzie in San Diego
By Casey Sullivan
Baker & McKenzie will likely close its doors in San Diego, which has seen significant attrition over the past decade, its ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar associations revenues on the mend after recession
By Amy Yarbroughn
After years of shrinking budgets from investment losses, drops in membership or decreased revenue from programs, many of the s...
Perspective
Reconciling Song-Beverly and commercial warranty provisions
By Michael Leen
Navigating the law to best protect consumers in breach of implied warranty claims. By Janine Schwerter and Saleem Erakat of Sn...
Perspective
Attorney-client privilege: Beware the hazards of electronic communication
By Michael Leen
When emailing a client, never assume that it is protected by the attorney-client privilege. By Aaron Cohn and Janelle M. Smith...
Know which provisions of the law are effective immediately, and what to expect in the coming months. By Sandra Thompson of Buc...
Law Practice
Coverage of legal secretaries slanted by gender inequality
By Michael Leen
A recent article discussing legal secretaries working for women partners sends a troubling message. By Roni Pomerantz of Shart...
The 2012 season is off to a quick start, and all signs indicate that this year will be even choppier. By James D. C. Barrall o...
The suit claims the company's former officers, independent auditor and chief banker wrongly took $1.2 billion from customers t...
Solo and Small Firms
L.A. minority-owned firm expands to San Francisco
By Susan Mcraen
Corporate transactional firm Lim, Ruger & Kim LLP has acquired the four-lawyer San Francisco intellectual property litigat...
In the latest chapter in the struggle between it and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the high court Monday elected agai...
Former Los Angeles pastor Christopher Iruke was sentenced on Monday to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay $6.7 million in r...
The state Supreme Court on Monday unanimously reversed a death sentence in a murder case, finding that a potential juror was i...
The U.S. attorney's office will suffer a leadership blow to its criminal appeals section this week when its chief departs, les...
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a California case concerning how public sector unions charge workers for t...