Readers respond to "Award for LA judge spurs ethics debate" and Using Tort Reform as an excuse: Why health care cann...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation: The year in review and predictions for 2012
By Sharon Liangn
One forecast for 2012: Courts will suffer, private mediators will gain. By Matthew P. Guasco of Judicate West
Several environmental groups frustrated by the high levels of dust pollution in the San Joaquin Valley sued the federal Enviro...
Judges and Judiciary
San Bernardino getting new presiding judge
By Jason W. Armstrong And Sean Win
Ronald M. Christianson, a 17-year veteran of the San Bernardino County Superior Court bench, will take over as its presiding j...
San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis today kicked off an annual “guns-for-gift cards” exchange event in south...
Technical breakthroughs, regulatory developments and M&A activity dominated the clean tech industry. By James C. Chapman o...
At an event at DLA Piper’s downtown San Diego office, Thomson Reuters honored DLA Piper with its first-ever HERO Award and don...
U.S. Supreme Court
Trucking industry asks U.S. justices to take a look at port mandates
By Robert Iafolla
The trucking industry took its fight against the Port of Los Angeles' anti-pollution program to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thur...
The long-running controversy over whether the U.S. should allow Mexican trucks north of the border is heating up now that unio...
It's the most important step to a successful appeal. By Alana H. Rotter of Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland LLP
Law Practice
State Bar's rules for attorney speech too broad, unclear
By Genevieve Knollen
Rules governing attorney communications remain overly-detailed, too broad and unclear in application. By Josh King of Avvo Inc.
A Los Angeles attorney got an early holiday bonus Thursday when a state appellate court upheld a nearly $1 million jury verdi...
Massachusetts-based Akamai Technologies Inc. agreed to buy Sunnyvale-based Contendo Inc. for $268 million in cash deal announc...
Appellate Practice
Winning on appeal when the odds are against you
By Genevieve Knollen
Recent developments in the realm of appellate procedure teach three important lessons. By Kevin Brodehl of Wendel, Rosen, Blac...
The Los Angeles Paralegal Association held its annual Holiday Benefit Gala at the Coral Tree Pavilion in downtown Los Angeles...
On Monday, American Bar Association President William T. Robinson addressed the 75 California Western School of Law graduates ...
Small firms rely more heavily on social media than their large firm counterparts, according to a survey released this week.
Disability Rights California honored Morrison & Foerster on Dec. 9 for the firm’s pro bono work in Darling et al. v Dougla...
A pilot program for DUI offenders in Alameda, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Tulare counties is creating a headache for defense a...
California cities are lashing out against a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that unleashed a deluge of corporate dollars into the el...
Procrastinating on that year-end tax plan can cost you dearly.
Entertainment & Sports
Five important cases you should watch in 2012
By Genevieve Knollen
'Tis the season: Five entertainment cases to watch out for in the new year. By Ken Basin of Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman &a...
This year gives teeth to the Justice Department's vow to up the ante in FCPA enforcement. By Bethany Hengsbach of Sheppard Mul...
Ireland corporate law firm A&L Goodbody will open a new Silicon Valley office, the firm announced Wednesday.
Months after a coalition of solar manufacturers rose to challenge China's allegedly unfair solar industry subsidies, a new cad...
Zep Solar Inc. of San Rafael on Tuesday filed a patent infringement suit against Westinghouse Solar and several other companie...
San Francisco is moving forward with a plan to buy green power and create a large order of small-scale clean tech projects.
California Courts of Appeal
Panel orders disclosure in case involving execution drug
By Laura Ernden
A state appellate court Tuesday ordered the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to disclose the names of potential su...
Silicon Valley giant Google has made its first investment in large-scale photovoltaic solar, announcing Tuesday that it will p...
Toyota Motor Company faced a new lawsuit this week filed on behalf of an Iraq War Veteran who died in a fatal car crash in 201...