In what is being touted as the largest-ever residential solar project, SolarCity has finalized a critical financing agreemen...
Chief counsel at six University of California campuses have received approval for salary hikes ranging between 6 and 21 percen...
The United States Department of Justice gave the green light to Google Inc. for its $400 million planned acquisition of New Yo...
The reduction in the number of civil court reporters in counties such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Luis Obispo has ra...
At the request of a Santa Clara technology company facing a patent infringement suit, a federal appeals court on Friday ordere...
In denying litigator Martin D. Singer's Anti-SLAPP motion Tuesday, a judge determined that the lawyer's demand letter to a cli...
Fresno County officials will file a modification to the 1991 consent decree on early inmate releases that clarifies the term '...
California real estate boutique firm Miller Starr Regalia has announced that Anthony M. Leones will become its new managing sh...
On Monday, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced that Timothy R. Cahn, a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office, re...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Court sides in favor of nonprofit in bone marrow donor case
By Mandy Jacksonn
A nonprofit that filed a constitutional challenge to the National Organ Transplant Act won a victory from the 9th U.S. Circuit...
A vote by the California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday appears to signal that utilities may have a harder time gett...
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
Lawyer sees opportunity in insurance gap for mental health
By Mandy Jacksonn
A West Hollywood lawyer and psychotherapist is hoping to capitalize on the gap between what the law requires for mental health...
Community News
California Supreme Court Historical Society hosts writing competition
By David Mcafeen
Mikelis Beitiks, student at UC Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, won first place in the California Supreme Court His...
Perspective
Class certification of punitive damages claims post-Wal-mart v. Dukes
By Sharon Liangn
The decision in Wal-mart could restrict federal court authority to certify punitive damages. By Felix Shafir of Horvitz...
Change of ownership is the trick to permanently lowering your property tax bill. By Bernard J. Vogel III of Silicon Valley Law...
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved U.S. District Judge Jacqueline H. Nguyen's nomination to the 9th U.S. Circ...
On Nov. 17, the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles’ Law Student Mentoring Committee co-sponsored ‘Dress for Success’ wit...
The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, an organization dedicated to providing legal services to low-income people in Los Ang...
Community News
Whittier Law School awards Jones Day lawyer Legal Leader Award
By David Mcafeen
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
Fighting HIV discrimination: Perhaps combination therapy is the key
By Karen Natividadn
A survey reveals that more dentists treat HIV-positive patients than health care providers - why? By Brad Sears of UCLA School...
A glimpse inside the lives of three judges and the legacies they left behind. By Jamie Alexis Newbold of Brayton Purcell LLP
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
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...
A putative class action filed this week accuses Los Angeles County Superior Court of failing to destroy tens of thousands of m...
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
9th Circuit rules against health care providers suing over Medi-Cal cuts
By Mandy Jacksonn
Health care providers do not have standing under civil rights law to sue over cuts to Medi-Cal reimbursement, the 9th U.S. Cir...
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
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
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...