Loeb & Loeb helped guide private equity firm TPG Capital to its acquisition of a stake in Creative Artists Agency, helping...
Ventura County Superior Court Assistant Presiding Judge Vincent J. O'Neill Jr. will take the reins as presiding judge, and Jud...
Marijuana has emerged as a genuine industry in California. But the path from street corners to storefronts continues to be a h...
Last September, San Diego authorities raided medical marijuana dispensaries throughout the city and arrested 60 people as part...
A detailed study released Monday found that California deputy district attorneys are almost never punished for misconduct, suc...
Judges and Judiciary
The 2010 Election and the New Chief Justice:How Will the State Supreme Court Change?
By Seena Nikravann
The arrival of a new Chief Justice could lead to substantial changes in California law. By Jeremy B. Rosen of Horvitz & Le...
Perspective
Which Opinion in Princo Best Applies Recent Supreme Court Lessons?
By Alexander Phersonn
A recent Federal Circuit decision argues three interpretations of the patent misuse doctrine. Which is correct? By Darin Snyde...
Corporate
Electronic Cigarettes: Tobacco Products or Drug-Device Combinations?
By Karen Natividadn
The debate over electronic cigarettes heats up as the FDA decides how to regulate these devices. By Leslie Krasny of Keller an...
At a time when technology is making the private lives of many Americans more accessible, one questions is snowballing in the c...
Intellectual Property
Apple Hit With Huge Patent Infringement Verdict in Texas
By Craig Andersonn
A jury in Tyler, TX awarded $625.5 million in damages against Apple late Friday after concluding that its iPod, iPhone and Mac...
The latest transactions by California attorneys.
The U.S. Supreme Court 2010 term, which starts Monday has a substantial 9th Circuit and California flavor. Of 54 cases the cou...
Co-Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel Thomas Properties Group Inc. Los Angeles ...
Venture capital investment in clean tech for the third quarter of 2010 fell by 11 percent compared to the same period this yea...
Government Contracts
Gov. Signs Laws to Help Building Contractors
By Jason W. Armstrong
Architects, engineers and other design professionals won't have to worry as much about being hit with massive litigation costs...
California's new health insurance exchange could be a bellwether that other states' lawmakers look to as they put together det...
David L. Anderson, first assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of California, will leave his post in early November...
The Supreme Court's injunction against state-distributed rescue funds could spell danger for the nation's campaign financing l...
A climate change case that will go before the Supreme Court this session will determine the domains of Congress and the courts...
Immigration
Supreme Court Has Opportunity to Define State Powers Over Immigration Issues
By Alexander Phersonn
Whether Arizona's controversial immigration statutes will survive pre-emption is now a question for the Supreme Court, by Stev...
Constitutional Law
A New Court Term, Sossamon v. Texas And the Case That Did Not Bark
By Alexander Phersonn
The Supreme Court is poised to decide some fascinating cases that may well yield closely-divided votes, by John C. Eastman, fo...
Rose Tracy Reinheimer is one of more than 60 homeowners suing the city over accusations it mismanaged its below-market-rate co...
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed more than 700 bills into law, including several aimed at reducing the workload for t...
The stage is set for the final battle between privacy rights and free speech in the military funeral protest case of Snyder...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...
Earlier in September, the Daily Journal hosted two roundtable discussions with leading appellate lawyers - one in Los Angeles ...
Lawyers in the Los Angeles office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan used a tactic that did not exist 10 years ago to de...
Michelle Rosenblatt requested a civil docket after a career as a criminal law judge. She says she needed a challenge. Civil la...
Apple Inc. has settled the last of the lawsuits filed against it over stock options by agreeing to pay $14 million to investor...