Government
Bill to loosen rules for startups passes Congress despite fear of scams
By Robert Pierce
President Barack Obama signed the JOBS Act into law on Thursday, a measure that will deregulate the process by which certain ...
The battle between the Obama administration and the U.S. House of Representatives over the Defense of Marriage Act attained a ...
The San Diego County Water Authority has gone on the attack against the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power as part of i...
Unresolved Occupy Wall Street complaints could make the Oakland Police Department vulnerable to the imposition of a court-app...
Mullen & Henzel LLP may have only 23 lawyers, but in small-town Santa Barbara, that makes it one of the community's larges...
Real Estate/Development
New green building code presents challenges
By Jason W. Armstrong
Land use lawyers are grappling with client concerns over the recent addition of the International Green Construction Code, the...
Former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Jamie Jacobs-May, who joined JAMS last year after retiring from the bench, view...
Labor/Employment
Equal Pay Day: End wage disparity between men and women
By Michael Leen
A call to action: despite decades old laws requiring equal pay for women, a disparity remains to this day. By Patricia Sturdev...
U.S. Supreme Court
Executive and judicial sparring: unwise, but not uncommon
By Michael Leen
Perhaps Obama should have kept quiet, but he's hardly the first president to speak his mind. By Douglas W. Kmiec of Pepperdine...
Real Estate/Development
Are large residences the next CEQA target?
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
As calls to reform the California Environmental Quality Act continue to grow, developers are up in arms about a recent appella...
Entertainment & Sports
How to legally protect your rights to scripts and film and television ideas
By Karen Natividadn
Make sure that you're not giving away your valuable ideas when making a pitch. By Thomas S. Rubin ...
Solar project developers looking to build on California's farmlands have caused a statewide clash over the development of pr...
Viacom Inc.'s billion-dollar cyberspace copyright infringement suit against Google Inc.'s YouTube video sharing site got new l...
New federal regulations for swimming pool access under the Americans with Disabilities Act have heartened some disability righ...
Lytro Inc. General counsel Mountain View ...
Judge Arthur Lew was a crime TV fan as a child. Now, he presides over real crime cases.
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Something's got to give: overlapping antitrust laws create redundant claims
By Karen Natividadn
Overlapping state and federal antitrust laws allow claims to grow exponentially with the number of links in the supply chain. ...
Justices peppered both sides with tough questions Wednesday in a state Supreme Court case over whether charter cities can exem...
Problems with compensation guarantees to partners at Dewey appear to be more widespread than initially reported. The firm is ...
California's three strikes law casts a wide net that has caught an unexpectedly wide range of criminals; it's time to reform i...
A San Francisco federal judge put the brakes on an effort to widen a one-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 101 that runs through an...
Insurance companies in asbestos cases say they've long been excluded from objecting to deals made between defense and plaintif...
Litigation
Gay Northern District law clerk wins administrative appeal over spouse's health benefits
By Jill Redhage
A Northern District law clerk has successfully appealed the denial of health benefits for his same-sex spouse. ...
Intellectual Property
Kerr & Wagstaffe helps Australian client win big settlement
By Craig Anderson
San Francisco-based Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP helped win a settlement of more than $220 million for its Australian government c...
The city of Costa Mesa's charter resolution will not appear on June's primary ballot. ...
