Judges and Judiciary
Slashing the courts’ budget has its own steep price
By Karen Natividadn
Drastic budget cuts threaten the California judiciary's tradition of integrity and innovation. By Laurence Hutt and Sharon May...
Entertainment & Sports
Studios win injunction against streaming service
By Erica Phillips
A federal judge in Los Angeles granted injunctive relief Tuesday to the Motion Picture Association of America and its member s...
Insurance
Don't overlook insurer liability for financial elder abuse
By Karen Natividadn
As our nation of baby boomers age, another avenue of insurance recovery is born. By Murray M. Sinclair of Murray M. Sinclair &...
Intellectual Property
Firm argues against disqualification in Apple-Samsung patent case
By Craig Anderson
Palo Alto-based Bridges & Mavrakakis LLP argued Monday that the firm should not be disqualified from representing Apple In...
Entertainment & Sports
Facebook, Netflix aim to lift video privacy law
By Erica E. Phillips
A new application that would integrate Facebook and Netflix to reveal users' movie preferences has an ambiguous legal hurdle t...
The state's largest trial court will endure a $38.1 million belt-tightening this fiscal year as part of $157.7 million in cuts...
Intellectual Property
Morgan Lewis wins $115 million patent verdict for San Jose company
By Craig Anderson
A Virginia jury awarded $115 million in damages to San Jose-based ActiveVideo Networks Inc. on Tuesday in a case against Veriz...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has asked a Santa Ana federal judge in Santa Ana to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges the FBI u...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Panel allows public school's membership rules
By John Roemer
Again siding with public schools, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Tuesday rejected Christian student groups' effo...
With more Chinese investors moving in the past year to acquire upscale hotels and commercial complexes that have languished in...
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a San Diego-based pharmaceutical company, three related holding firms and four ...
President Barack Obama nominated Gregory Woods Tuesday to be the Energy Department’s new general counsel. ...
The electric-powered transportation industry in California is burgeoning, and as businesses grow and navigate the thicket of r...
How Casey Anthony's defense team overcame the odds and convinced the jury to acquit. By Louis J. Shapiro ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Panel to rethink Millennium Bomber's sentence
By John Roemer
The 9th Circuit on Tuesday voted to rethink an earlier decision over the sentence handed to the Millennium Bomber Ahmed Ressam...
Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP helped San Diego-based Security Business Bancorp get an $8.9 million investment from...
California Courts of Appeal
Lawyers can collect fees for administrative proceedings
By John Roemer
A state appellate panel Tuesday reversed a San Luis Obispo County trial judge and held that a party can win legal fees for lit...
A U.S. Bankruptcy judge has approved the Los Osos Community Services District’s bankruptcy plan, bringing to an end nearly fiv...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
The US Supreme Court’s take on arbitration law
By Genevieve Knollen
A five-member majority, led by Justice Antonin Scalia, is raising concerns even among the most traditional proponents of arbit...
New legislation signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown Monday will require sports agents to give up any profits earned as a resul...
The Scott River is not a large or well-known river. Nonetheless, it is at the center of a legal fight over a fundamental quest...
Chief operating officer and general counsel for Tioga Pharmaceuticals Inc. in San Diego ...
The Association of Corporate Counsel's Value Index was intended to help in-house attorneys know more about which law firms wer...
Bankruptcy
Glimmer of hope for Crystal Cathedral: Raise $50 million
By Don Debenedictisn
Robert H. Schuller's Crystal Cathedral Ministries said it will try to raise $50 million in donations in 120 days to rescue its...
Attorneys are no longer required to lodge non-California authorities with their papers. By Blair Schlecter of Hurrell Cantrall...
Matthew D. Powers, the former Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP patent litigator who started his own firm last month, is adding a...
Perspective
The right to have fun: Entertainment industry fights discrimination claims
By Sharon Liangn
People with disabilities should not have to go to court in defense of their right to have fun. By Paula Pearlman of Disability...
Litigation
No matter is too great: Practical lessons for litigating a complex case
By Sharon Liangn
With some diligence, tenacity, strategic thinking, persistence, and the power of positive relationships, no matter is too grea...
California Supreme Court
Public officials held to higher standard in corruption cases, court rules
By Laura Ernden
Prosecutors in public corruption cases must show that officials either knew or should have known their actions were wrong, the...
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Monday that requires prosecutors to use witness testimony or physical evidence to bolster the a...