Entertainment & Sports
When red-carpet stars need US visas, one firm works overtime
By Erica E. Phillips
Entertainment law and immigration converge during award season. ...
Vice President-Legal and Principal Counsel for AREVA Solar Mountain View ...
Law Practice
Inside the box: observations of an attorney serving as a juror
By Ben Armisteadn
I was shocked to observe that most jurors flat out failed to even read the jury instructions. By Jeff Hsu of Murphy Pearson Br...
Intellectual Property
Oracle defers copyright damages in case against Google
By Craig Andersonn
Oracle Corp. made it all but official Wednesday that it is betting on a retrial to win its huge copyright infringement lawsu...
Even before the State Bar filed disciplinary charges that could get Del Norte District Attorney Jon M. Alexander disbarred, Al...
California Supreme Court
State justices wade into undocumented immigrant debate with attorney admission order
By John Roemer
The state Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned why the State Bar thinks an undocumented immigrant should be admitted to pract...
A Merced County Superior Court judge was admonished by the state on Wednesday for dragging his feet on several cases that wer...
Insurance
Ambiguity and the interpretation of insurance policies in California
By Ben Armisteadn
Is the Supreme Court's test for policy interpretation consistent with the ordinary rules of contract interpretation in Califor...
A Sunnyvale attorney was convicted Tuesday of multiple counts of wire and mail fraud in federal court. ...
Casey Fleck has been involved in several high-profile public offerings. ...
Non-judicial foreclosures deny fundamental rights to owners. By John R. Engel of Sullivan Hill Lewin Rez & Engel ...
A statewide working group has released a new funding formula to divvy up money from California's coffers to help offset coun...
A Santa Barbara based wind energy developer has approved a deal to sell 4 gigawatts of wind energy projects to a Canadian com...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Panel reverses judge's OK of warrantless search
By John Roemer
A divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Wednesday reversed a Los Angeles federal judge, holding that two kilos of...
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide today whether to wade back into the question of what methods and processes can get the...
A Santa Clara County prosecutor's misconduct in a child molestation trial has drawn disciplinary charges from the State Bar. ...
Thirty-eight percent of survey respondents said they would urge their children to pursue another career, and 25 percent said t...
In a push to clamp down on runaway litigation costs, the state attorney general's office has begun rejecting cases from state ...
With a smile or a joke, Mark Zuckman keeps tensions down in a high-volume arraignment court
Kirkland & Ellis LLP inked a deal with landlord Brookfield Office Properties to renew its lease for 102,000 square feet at...
Real Estate/Development
Some development under cloud of uncertainty
By Hannah Mitchelln
In the aftermath of California's decision to disband redevelopment agencies, some land-use lawyers say they're more worried ab...
Ten lessons for lawyers who use mediation for personal disputes. By Forrest S. Mosten of UCLA School of Law ...
Perspective
Central District of California amends local rules: get your tech on
By Michael Leen
They seem like technical tweaks, but failure to pay attention could result in undesired outcomes. By Dana Taschner and Lee Cir...
In discipline charges filed late Tuesday, the State Bar accused Jon M. Alexander, the district attorney of Del Norte County, o...
No one can paint a full picture of the situation in California: the state doesn't even track when and where wells are fracked ...