Larry Kramer, who led Stanford Law School and pushed for major curriculum changes that combined the study of law and other aca...
Litigation
For-profit schools fend off class actions through Concepcion
By Saul Sugarman
As for-profit schools face an increasing amount of scrutiny over fraudulent job placement numbers, the institutions are pinnin...
Personal Injury & Torts
Medical bills: Questions remain unresolved after Howell
By Michael Leen
Courts are still unable to define the proper role of medical bills in personal injury actions. By Richard L. Kellner and Jacob...
McDermott Will & Emery has bolstered their intellectual property litigation practice by acquiring a four-lawyer team from ...
Costa Mesa will appeal a trial court decision barring the city's charter resolution from June's primary ballot. Officials also...
Court leaders' decision to abandon the Court Case Management System made clear the judiciary does not have the money to deplo...
U.S. Supreme Court
If the mandate falls, what else would go with it?
By Robert Iafolla
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to strike down other pieces of the Obama administration's sprawling health car...
The new owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers will assume the liabilities of current owner Frank McCourt, including the negligence...
A roundup of recent real estate deals and the attorneys involved.
Real Estate/Development
The modern-day data center offers unique challenges to lawyers
By Evan Georgen
Data centers often boast floor upon floor of computer servers. While these mysterious office buildings sport some of the most ...
Known for his diligence, Judge Gary S. Austin serves in the system where he began his career.
Efforts to fix California's death penalty are futile. By Andrew Love ...
Civil liberties advocates on Tuesday released documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in San Francisco that they be...
A Riverside County deputy public defender's battle to force the local sheriff's department to admit gay inmates into its drug ...
Amid discontent with the firm's leadership, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP has taken action to restructure the firm's governance by m...
A missed deadline has disqualified the city of Costa Mesa's charter resolution from appearing on June's primary ballot. ...
Merger talks between Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Fulbright & Jaworski LLP are officially off, according to a s...
Beaches, bays and rivers in the Los Angeles area are set for a major cleanup after the federal Environmental Protection Agency...
Whether a worker is an independent contract is determined by the realities of the parties. By Bryan J. Lazarski of Buchalter N...
U.S. Supreme Court
California asks high court to strike down immigration law
By Robert Iafolla
The California attorney general's office argued that the U.S. Supreme Court should strike down Arizona's contentious immigrati...
Even under a stricter standard adopted by an appellate court last year for proving inequitable conduct in patent infringement ...
There seems to be little correlation to three strikes laws and a decrease in crime. By Jeffery A. Lowe ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Firm sues Bar Association of San Francisco over arbitration
By Saul Sugarman
A law firm has filed suit against the Bar Association of San Francisco, claiming the organization unlawfully refused to overse...
Labor/Employment
Federal Circuits: years of misleading ERISA decisions
By Michael Leen
Federal circuits show little sympathy for ERISA attorneys who cannot show detrimental reliance on defective plan summaries. By...
Judges and Judiciary
Court leaders vote to cease work on court-linking system
By Evan Georgen
Twelve years after the judiciary embarked on an effort to create one statewide court case management system, court leaders vot...
The future of the controversial law mandating that nearly every American obtain health coverage appeared to be hanging by a th...
California lawyers from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP advised in the sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers...
Judge Mary Strobel knows Los Angeles' guiding charter - she helped rewrite it .
In an era of advanced reproductive technology, increasing numbers of so-called "blended families" and greater acceptance of ga...
Judge ...