Lawyers representing multiple parties in SEC investigations beware - the SEC has its eye on you. By Andrew J. Dunbar of Sidley...
E-Verify is the wave of the future, and employers need to be well versed in its benefits and implications. By Laura J. Mazel o...
Education
Just do it: The importance of training law students in public advocacy
By Sharon Liangn
We need to teach our students to be "lawyers," not just students of the law. By Laurie L. Levenson of Loyola Law School ...
A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge on Monday dismissed a securities class action against Solectron Corp. ...
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's Wal-Mart v. Dukes decision, a federal judge in Los Angeles is revisiting the case of...
Barnet M. Cooperman, who retired from the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1996 and went on to practice as a neutral at JA...
A real estate investor pleaded guilty late Friday to participating in a scheme to rig bids and commit mail fraud in connection...
Intellectual Property
Verizon opposes proposed injunction in Apple patent case
By Craig Andersonn
Verizon Communications Inc. has weighed in against Apple Inc.'s request for an order prohibiting the sale of several Samsung ...
Actor Charlie Sheen and Warner Bros. Television have settled a $100 million breach of contract lawsuit Sheen filed against the...
Police officers have the authority to search the cell phone of a driver they have arrested for being under the influence, a 6t...
Paul Hastings has bolstered its antitrust division in San Francisco with a new partner at a time when more and more law firms ...
Litigation
Plaintiffs suing over education funding plan to appeal dismissals
By Amy Yarbroughn
Lawyers for plaintiffs who claim the state isn't adequately funding K-12 education said Monday they plan to appeal a ruling di...
Fred Krebs, former president of the Association of Corporate Counsel, has joined the Washington, D.C.-based law firm, Clearspi...
Law Practice
MLB: Dodgers lawyers acting against club's best interest
By Casey Sullivan
Teams of attorneys working on the Los Angeles Dodgers bankruptcy case have come under attack by Major League Baseball. The lea...
Law Practice
City lawyer looks to capitalize on niche in private practice
By Henry Meier
The man who helped the city of Los Angeles bring major cases over health care fraud, patient dumping and "supergraphic" billbo...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals mostly upheld the legality of the Port of Los Angeles' program to cut big rig pollution ...
A roundup of recent M&A and financing activities and the lawyers involved.
The Republic of Honduras has designated a Dorsey & Whitney LLP partner as an arbitrator to the World Bank's International ...
Far fewer state lawmakers hold a law degree now than they have in recent history, a slow but steady turn from what was once a ...
When dancing, caving or hearing small claims, Commissioner Karen A. Riley dives right in.
Why the new "CEQA reform" legislation may be more promise than reality. By James L. Arnone and Holly A. Williams of Latham &am...
Victims' new constitutional right to counsel is being largely ignored by prosecuting attorneys. By Antonio R. Sarabia II ...
Labor/Employment
One-strike rule for drug use by job applicant upheld
By Sharon Liangn
Employers can disqualify an applicant permanently from future employment if he or she fails the drug test. By Scott A. Freedma...
Steps every business should take to protect against misappropriation of trade secrets. By Gay C. Grunfeld and Aaron J. Fischer...
First California Bank turned a blind eye to years of fraud by an embattled campaign treasurer accused of stealing millions fro...
President Barack Obama's nomination of a Los Angeles federal judge to serve on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could ha...
A federal appellate panel has agreed to hear appeals from two prison inmates whose habeas corpus petitions dragged on for year...
The legislative back-and-forth over whether Amazon and other Internet retailers would be forced to collect sales tax on Califo...
An enrolled member of the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel and a descendent of the Pala Band of Mission Indians, Trinidad Contrera...