Lawyers from Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and Cooley Godward Kronish worked on Accelrys Inc.'s acquisition of Santa C...
A Court of Appeal in Los Angeles revived a lawsuit Monday against prominent plaintiffs attorney Tom Girardi. ...
The Los Angeles district attorney's union signaled it plans to seek class certification of a lawsuit filed last year accusing ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Hyundai Wins Case Against Insurers
By John Roemer
Two insurance companies wrongly refused to defend Hyundai Motor America on a patent infringement claim related to a feature on...
Sparring continues over the state's new court case management system, with backers and critics planning dueling demonstrations...
The California Supreme Court gave trial court judges a little more leeway Monday to remove appointed counsel and delay crimina...
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday decided not to take a case out of Washington state about whether the Fifth Amendment protection ...
Contrary to what many employers' counsel predict, Chavez v. City of Los Angeles is likely to have a limited impact on attorney...
Daniel Garrie of ARC and Yoav Griver of Zeichner Ellman & Krause advise on how to avoid the pitfalls of a poorly designed ...
Hadar Aviram of UC Hastings College of Law questions the public's captivation with forensic science, a phenomenon known as 'th...
John Tanner of SEIU 721 says California needs to upgrade its aging court system to better serve the public and calls for a new...
"Aggravated felony" and "cancellation of removal" are two concepts that embody the complex and harsh nature of federal immigra...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Sutter, Town Square Off in Legal Battle
By Evan George
A battle is raging over a small Bay Area hospital, pitting not-for-profit medical powerhouse Sutter Health against a small com...
Personal Injury & Torts
SLAPP Suit Turns Personal After Brother's Death
By Laura Ernden
In a case that could have reverberations throughout the state, the California Supreme Court case today hears claims a Los Gato...
Judge E. Bradley Nelson trusts his people-reading skills in addition to his legal knowledge in making decisions in criminal ca...
People line up at the resource center for self-represented litigants on the fourth floor of the Mosk courthouse. ...
The Justice Department has filed a motion seeking to toss out a closely watched lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of t...
Prosecutorial misconduct, prison reform and snitching are among the topics of Loyola Law School's fourth annual Fiddle Institu...
Lawyers for Heller Ehrman's estate re-filed the much anticipated second version of its Chapter 11 dissolution plan and disclos...
Three out of the 17 candidates vying for seats on the State Bar Board of Governors have run for the post before. ...
Job losses in the legal sector spiked slightly in March, bucking a nationwide employment trend, which saw the first dramatic u...
The move by Joan M. Cotkin and Terry Leuin to Nossaman leaves in doubt the future of the Cotkin Law Group, which once had 60 l...
When a non-citizen client has pending criminal charges, and the deportation consequences of that plea are clear, he must be ad...
David Kadue of Seyfarth Shaw authors the newest edition of "Cal-Peculiarities," highlighting ways in which California employme...
Bernard Kamine of Kamine Collings & Phelps says amendment of the or-equal statute eliminates the ability of public agencie...
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Drastic cuts in corrections and criminal justice spending are not safe solutions to bloated government spending, write Rep. La...
A Florida man who allegedly stole an inactive California State Bar member's identity, started a fake law firm, hired attorneys...
Los Angeles County courts will likely begin laying off referees in September, in the second round of projected layoffs but the...
Large Firms
Push or Pull: Partners At Howrey Head For the Exits
By Anna Scott/Sara Randazzo
Is an exodus underway at Howrey? Or is the firm jettisoning a large number of underproducing partners to shore itself up? Whic...