The first time out, David B. Van Etten grew his firm to 50 lawyers, but a crushing overhead led to its demise. This time, part...
Omitting achievements of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans from textbooks amounts to viewpoint discrimination. ...
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP lost $10 million in 2010, according to documents that came to light in litigation b...
Many trucking industry defense lawyers have instituted a 24-hour on-call emergency system to respond to their clients' acciden...
Attorneys general from all 50 states and federal agencies have been negotiating with more than a dozen major mortgage lenders ...
In his first interview since announcing his retirement, Former Northern District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who is starting...
M. Gerald Schwartzback writes in response to "One Loss Too Many." ...
Institutional lenders and handlers of foreclosures and loan modifications should coordinate their activities so no one lands i...
While the construction industry struggled for business, the appellate courts were hard at work. By Robert A. Weissman. ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Strange Bedfellows: Lawyers and Doctors Work Together to Advance Patient Care
By Seena Nikravann
Doctors and lawyers form a truce to improve patient outcomes. By Courtney A. Powers of the Daughters of Charity Health System....
Estimating future lost profits is no easy task. By Mark J. Phillips of Goldfarb, Sturman & Averbach and Michael J. Phillip...
The state Supreme Court seemed highly skeptical Wednesday of a Reed Smith attorney who represented a controversial Beverly Hil...
Attorneys for Apple Inc. persuaded a Texas judge to overturn a jury's $625.5 million verdict against the company, persuading h...
A Princeton-educated scientist who rose to become a corporate titan only to be sent to prison for securities fraud, is trying ...
The wife of a former Deloitte Tax LLP partner, who pleaded guilty to a charge of lying to the Securities and Exchange Commissi...
Wednesday's announcement establishes the litigation boutique as Kelley Drye & Warren LLP's Los Angeles office under the ba...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Cop Has Immunity in Shooting Suit
By John Roemer
A California Highway Patrol officer who fired 12 bullets that fatally injured a woman following a high-speed chase is entitled...
An attorney for Oracle Corp. said Wednesday that "extreme confusion and panic" would ensue if the state Supreme Court applies ...
Associate Appellate Justice Richard Huffman will step down from the state Judicial Council, effective June 30, following 14 ye...
The Prison Legal News is suing Sacramento County on allegations that its refusal to distribute the magazine to jail inmates vi...
A web of laws and regulations serve to protect and inform consumers about the food they eat. But local, state and federal offi...
The SEC announced major insider-trading charges Wednesday against a recent Wilson Sonsini lawyer who allegedly leaked secret m...
Judge Linda R. Condron admits she can be tough on lawyers, but they say she's fair.
Real Estate/Development
Real Estate Movers & Dealmakers
By Jason W. Armstrong And Sean Win
Maryland-based real estate investment trust LaSalle Hotel Properties paid $80.1 million for the Viceroy Santa Monica.
Government
Law Calling for Inmate Relocation Could Influence Overcrowding Case
By Emily Green
Legislation signed Monday night by Gov. Jerry Brown aimed at relocating low-level offenders from state prisons to county jails...
Portfolio Manager / Patent Prosecutor Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP San Diego Communications and semiconductors...
Portfolio Manager / Patent Prosecution Cooley LLP San Francisco Biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical device...
Portfolio Manager / Patent Prosecutor Morrison & Foerster LLP San Francisco Life sciences, biofuels ...
Litigator Farella Braun & Martell LLP San Francisco Patent, trademark, copyright ...
Portfolio Manager / Patent Prosecutor Baker Botts LLP Palo Alto Patent prosecution, trademark, copyright ...