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In what is being touted as the largest-ever residential solar project, SolarCity has finalized a critical financing agreemen...


Law Practice


Salaries spike for UC in-house counsel

Dec. 5, 2011
By Saul Sugarmann

Chief counsel at six University of California campuses have received approval for salary hikes ranging between 6 and 21 percen...


Law Practice


DOJ approves Google acquisition of AdMeld

Dec. 5, 2011
By Robert Pierce

The United States Department of Justice gave the green light to Google Inc. for its $400 million planned acquisition of New Yo...


Litigation


The reduction in the number of civil court reporters in counties such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Luis Obispo has ra...


Intellectual Property


Federal appeals court orders rare venue switch

Dec. 5, 2011
By Robert Iafolla

At the request of a Santa Clara technology company facing a patent infringement suit, a federal appeals court on Friday ordere...


Entertainment & Sports


Tables turn on Hollywood’s lawyer

Dec. 2, 2011
By Erica E. Phillips

In denying litigator Martin D. Singer's Anti-SLAPP motion Tuesday, a judge determined that the lawyer's demand letter to a cli...


Criminal


Judges can't block early releases

Dec. 2, 2011
By Susan Mcraen

Fresno County officials will file a modification to the 1991 consent decree on early inmate releases that clarifies the term '...


Law Practice


Real estate boutique names new head

Dec. 2, 2011
By Kevin Lee

California real estate boutique firm Miller Starr Regalia has announced that Anthony M. Leones will become its new managing sh...


Community News


SF lawyer receives Unity Award

Dec. 2, 2011
By David Mcafeen

On Monday, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced that Timothy R. Cahn, a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office, re...


Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech


A nonprofit that filed a constitutional challenge to the National Organ Transplant Act won a victory from the 9th U.S. Circuit...


Energy Law


A vote by the California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday appears to signal that utilities may have a harder time gett...


Litigation


Suit against CNN unlikely to be thrown out

Dec. 2, 2011
By Amy Yarbroughn

Skeptical of CNN's claims that its free speech rights were infringed, a federal court judge appears poised to allow a case aga...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


A West Hollywood lawyer and psychotherapist is hoping to capitalize on the gap between what the law requires for mental health...


Community News


Mikelis Beitiks, student at UC Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, won first place in the California Supreme Court His...


The decision in Wal-mart could restrict federal court authority to certify punitive damages. By Felix Shafir of Horvitz...


Real Estate/Development


How to permanently reduce your property taxes

Dec. 2, 2011
By Sharon Liangn

Change of ownership is the trick to permanently lowering your property tax bill. By Bernard J. Vogel III of Silicon Valley Law...


Judges and Judiciary


Commitee approves judge for 9th Circuit

Dec. 2, 2011
By Robert Iafolla

The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved U.S. District Judge Jacqueline H. Nguyen's nomination to the 9th U.S. Circ...


Community News


On Nov. 17, the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles’ Law Student Mentoring Committee co-sponsored ‘Dress for Success’ wit...


Community News


Legal Aid Foundation of LA pays tribute

Dec. 2, 2011
By David Mcafeen

The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, an organization dedicated to providing legal services to low-income people in Los Ang...


Community News


On Wednesday, Thomas Malcolm, parter at Jones Day, received the Legal Leader Award given by the Whittier Law School Alumni Ass...


Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech


A survey reveals that more dentists treat HIV-positive patients than health care providers - why? By Brad Sears of UCLA School...


Perspective


Reflecting on the judges we have lost

Dec. 2, 2011
By Karen Natividadn

A glimpse inside the lives of three judges and the legacies they left behind. By Jamie Alexis Newbold of Brayton Purcell LLP


Community News


Kamala Harris visits Stanford Law School

Dec. 2, 2011
By David Mcafeen

Stanford law students had an interesting guest lecturer on Thursday: California Attorney General Kamala Harris. The students a...


Real Estate/Development


Condo owners win big fight over special assesments

Dec. 2, 2011
By Jason W. Armstrong And Sean Win

Ruling on an issue closely watched by the real estate industry, a judge blocked hundreds of residents of a condominium associa...


Litigation


LA court catches heat for outdated website

Dec. 2, 2011
By Ciaran Mcevoyn

A putative class action filed this week accuses Los Angeles County Superior Court of failing to destroy tens of thousands of m...


Family


A case pending at the 4th District Court of Appeal highlights confusion in the courts over requests for court-ordered visitati...


Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech


Health care providers do not have standing under civil rights law to sue over cuts to Medi-Cal reimbursement, the 9th U.S. Cir...


Litigation


Plaintiffs in a long-running gender discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. can't modify a protective order govern...


Intellectual Property


Federal courts select patent pilot program judges

Dec. 1, 2011
By Craig Andersonn

Three of California's four federal courts have selected judges to participate in a program designed to steer patent infringem...


Real Estate/Development


Suits against commercial lenders spike

Dec. 1, 2011
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

As the commercial mortgage-backed securities market continues to see a record number of loan defaults, lawyers who handle lend...