Allan Marson and Fang Fang of Baker McKenzie write about representative offices, a popular means for establishing business pre...
In a major victory for a San Francisco-based human rights group, the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday ruled unanimously that former ...
The LA County District Attorney's office is closing its investigation into Cardinal Roger Mahony and other top leaders of the ...
Intellectual Property
Victoria's Secret Wins Trademark Anti-Dilution Case
By Carla Pinedan
Howard Hoffenberg examines Victoria's Secret's trademark dilution lawsuit against Victor's Little Secret, a purveyor of adult ...
Carolin Shining of Paul and Hanley argues in support of California's long tradition of requiring judicial consideration of all...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Mortgage Boiler Room Scams Ensnared Scads of Lawyers
By Don Debenedictisn
Hundreds of Southern California lawyers - most from Orange County - stand accused of, or are under investigation for, defraudi...
The Obama administration reject a pending legal challenge to the law by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, an employer gr...
A federal judge in Santa Ana overseeing several hundred cases against Toyota Motor Corp. ordered the automaker to complete the...
George Hahn - steamed that he was fined $100,000 by the state for selling his "Worm Gold" fertilizer - is taking his case to t...
A Contra Costa County prosecutor accused of raping and sodomizing a colleague lost his bid Friday to get the government to pay...
A Legislative committee has killed a bill that would have made it a misdemeanor for child molesters to cruising Internet socia...
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Daniel Lazaroff of Loyola Law School examines American Needle Inc. v. NFL, a case that will undoubtedly influence the c...
The Bar Association of San Francisco has given good marks to all seven of the candidates running for seats on the county's Sup...
The California Supreme Court has finally defined who is and is not an employer in a decision that will shape wage and hour pra...
Three appellate court justices on Friday appeared skeptical of claims that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has the authority to fur...
Richard Neff of Neff Law Firm clarifies the concept of "fair use" of copyrighted works, one of the least understood concepts i...
The county claims the integrated software platform it hired Deloitte Consulting to implement to replace its payroll, financial...
Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi chronicle the first-ever account of how the Golden State struggled to develop and protect civil r...
A lawsuit that a production company filed against the Walt Disney Co. over profits from the game show "Who Wants to be a Milli...
Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy has been approved by the Senate as U.S. attorney in San Diego. ...
Rachel F. Moran, a longtime professor at UC Berkeley School of Law who took a leave to help found the law school at UC Irvine,...
Securities
Prosecutors Reverse Themselves, Say They Won't Appeal Broadcom Dismissal
By Gabe Friedmann
After months of silence about their intentions, U.S. prosecutors in Santa Ana filed a motion to drop their criminal case again...
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...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Orange County Superior Court Judge Kirk Nakamura learned to value fairness at an early age from his grandparents' internment d...
Katherine Mader learned early in her career that to succeed she would have to open doors for herself. This philosophy has all...
Trial lawyer Donald F. Costello launched the Million Dollar Advocates Forum in 2007 to help successful lawyers tap a trusted n...
A fishing group in a boat off the coast of Long Beach found the body of missing Irell & Manella partner Thomas Kirschbaum ...