Perspective
Hanging By a Thread: Non-Solicitation Clauses and the Trade Secret Exception
By Carla Pinedan
It is time for employers to let go of invalid and liability-inviting non-solicitation clauses, by Matthew F. Miller and Erik S...
Bankrupt downtown Los Angeles real estate developer Meruelo Maddux Properties Inc. was ordered by a judge to retract a press r...
Veteran Los Angeles attorney Felix Grossman is 76 years old, has two artificial knees and two artificial hips, still competes ...
Groups pushing for a repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" said the Senate's failure Tuesday to drum up support for a vote conside...
The state Supreme Court has essentially neutered California's post-conviction discovery statute, by Maurice Possley and Kathle...
Congress' approach to the yuan-dollar exchange rate situation misses the point and will only hurt U.S. consumers, by James Won...
Retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Jack Mandel has won the California Judges Association's humanitarian award for his ...
Sidley Austin's hedge fund practice will be adding Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin directors Mark Whatley and ...
O'Melveny & Myers is teaming up with former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former U.S. National Security Adv...
Last fall, the union representing Los Angeles County prosecutors slapped District Attorney Steve Cooley with a lawsuit, accusi...
California Supreme Court
Court Makes Unusual Move in Death Penalty Appeal
By Laura Ernden
The California Supreme Court could be signaling it's trying to cut down on the immense work associated with death penalty appe...
Will Harvard Law School's new grading system help or hinder students in the job market? By Severin Randall of Harvard Law Scho...
After a 30-year civil litigation career, Los Angeles County Judge John Kralik has a reputation as an 'extremely positive perso...
It's being touted as essential to California's push to build a greener and more efficient electric system, but it's not solar ...
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Criminal
Judge: More Jailtime Won't Change Lawyer's 'Bizarre' Behavior
By Susan Mcraen
The judge who on Friday ordered lawyer Richard I. Fine freed from jail after serving a year and a half on contempt charges exp...
Irvine-based Broadcom Corp. has now spent more than $200 million on legal costs defending stock option-related litigation, a l...
A Los Angeles-area criminal defense attorney will be disbarred after a judge Monday sentenced him to probation for witness tam...
A judge signed off on the deal between the union and 70,000 actors, ending a three-year lawsuit that accused the guild of fail...
Justice Antonin Scalia took aim Friday at Roe v. Wade, telling students at Hastings College of the Law the 1973 decisio...
Legislation to reconfigure California’s civil trial process may dramatically increase jury trials from 1,800 to 13,000 per yea...
The political blockage of U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward Chen’s nomination to the U.S. District Court is a scandal when consider...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Election Challenges and Politics: Why You Should Worry
By Carla Pinedan
California’s bench boasts its election procedure is independent of politicized judicial elections, except for the for the Supe...
Will legislation to broaden the Food and Drug Administration’s powers to mandate recalls be a significant step in addressing f...
The scarcity of private projects is driving more firms to bid on public works, adding complexity to an already convoluted proc...
Constitutional Law
'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Repeal: A Very Dangerous Sociological Experiment
By Carla Pinedan
The social acceptance of homosexuality is seemingly steamrolling through well-established constitutional rights, by Dean R. Br...
Corporate
Two Important SEC Developments Impact Timing of New Rules and 2011 Application
By David Houstonn
September 21, 2010 The Securities and Exchange Commission has started the clock on new rules brought on by the Dodd-Frank Wal...
California lawyers at two firms nabbed work representing the Internet media company Internet Brands, Inc. in a $640 million de...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Brief: Ruling Ignored Marriage's True Purpose
By John Roemer
Defenders of Prop 8 say Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker blinded himself to marriage's true purpose: procreation, an...