Law Practice
First Amendment endowed chair coming to UCI School of Law
By Don Debenedictisn
The UCI School of Law soon will have a new faculty member specializing in First Amendment law, thanks to a $1.5 million gift. ...
Government
Senate Minority Leader cautions against online piracy bill
By Craig Anderson
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., weighed in Thursday on the side of technology companies fighting to stop legislation that would make i...
Law Practice
Three Luce Forward partners depart, shut down Carmel Valley office
By Casey Sullivan
After losing key partners within its white-collar criminal defense and intellectual property practices shortly before announci...
A federal judge in Oakland granted a preliminary injunction on Thursday to halt a 20 percent cut in Medi-Cal funding for in-ho...
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP expanded its structured finance practice in Los Angeles this week by hiring an O'Melve...
For 31 years now, Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger has thrived on representing public agencies and community groups, including l...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Drugmakers look to FDA for guidance on off-label marketing
By Mandy Jacksonn
The FDA has only recently made an attempt to clarify its stance on what constitutes off-label marketing, the illegal promotion...
County probation departments across the state are receiving a flood of former prison inmates to supervise as part of realignme...
California Courts of Appeal
Same-sex custody ruling reversed on appeal
By Laura Ernden
A 3rd District Court of Appeal decision Thursday gives family law judges a road map for recognizing parental relationships wit...
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...