Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
A San Francisco attorney continues to battle on behalf of two Nevada ranchers, racking up rulings that could have big implicat...
Former sex crimes prosecutor Kathleen Diesman demands respect and preparation from the lawyers who appear in her Long Beach co...
A San Diego judge was admonished for misusing court resources Wednesday and a Sacramento judge went before the judicial perfor...
Jonathan Drimmer and Christian Jordan of Steptoe & Johnson tackle the issue of insuring against FCPA liability for directo...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
House Approves SEC Legislation
By Pia Sarkarn
The House of Representatives approved legislation to give the Securities and Exchange Commission the authority to issue nation...
A federal prosecutor said he would try Gregory Reyes on backdating related charges that were reversed by an appeals court, the...
A civil service hearing officer blasted L.A. DA Steve Cooley Wednesday for ignoring subpoenas to testify about allegations he ...
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared Wednesday to be seeking to avoid a broad constitutional ruling in a dispute over ocean-front p...
Environmentalists are pushing the Obama administration to dramatically slash heat-trapping gases through the federal Clean Air...
An Orange County judge has reversed himself and refused to allow 140 new plaintiffs into a wage-and-hour dispute after a $7.5 ...
A federal appeals court on Wednesday made it easier for patent infringement defendants' to get out of the plaintiff-friendly E...
The low-cost DVD rental company beefed up its antitrust suits against Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. by accusing them ...
William Bagley of Nossaman recounts how he was one in four Assembly Republicans to vote against housing discrimination in 1963...
The rocky career of Los Angeles Immigration Judge Anna Ho hit another bump Wednesday as a federal appeals court again blasted ...
A Court of Appeal revived a malpractice lawsuit against Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and two Palo Alto attorneys accused of ...
Securities
Prosecutor's Conduct Is Questioned in Broadcom Criminal Trial
By David Houstonn
The criminal trial of Broadcom's former chief financial officer William J. Ruehle for stock option backdating nearly met an ab...
Michael Fitzgerald of Milbank Tweed addresses the growth of Latin American economies and capital markets despite a worldwide c...
Attorneys Benjamin Shatz and Lara Krieger ask whether alternative grounds should or should not be precluded. ...
Robin Samuel and Jennifer Wagman of Hogan & Hartson tell employers how to protect against the H1N1 pandemic while remainin...
With high-tech scoundrels scrambling to suck up sensitive data, lawyers have been left to wade through a mire of laws and regu...
Our annual list of the state's top 50 neutrals. ...
As the ADR market has become more saturated, lawyers and their clients who use these services have become more sophisticated i...
The Daily Journal highlights its picks for the state's 50 top neutrals and 10 top up and coming neutrals. ...
Allonn E. Levy of Hopkins & Carley advises on how to get jurors to agree in complex litigation. ...
Robert W. Fischer Jr. of Fulbright & Jaworski says California is one of the most active jurisdictions in a 2009 litigation...
The U.S. appeals court appeared reluctant Tuesday to compel Proposition 8 backers to turn over internal campaign strategy to p...
Arnold & Porter continues to show it is serious about expanding in the Golden State. It has lured patent attorney Ginger D...
A report says immigration officials are increasingly transferring foreign nationals from urban areas to remote areas where leg...
A survey suggests law firms won't head pressure from corporate clients to hold the line or give discounts on legal pricing nex...