Practitioner Steven Andre says courts have applied a muddled approach over whether a "costs only" judgment is subject to the u...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Health Reform Takes Center Stage at Opening of Trial
By Evan George
Lawyers representing a Malibu man who was denied a costly liver transplant by his insurer told the jury in opening statements ...
After nearly four decades at the helm, Ramona Ripston has announced she will step down next year to make way for a new generat...
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court Weighs L.A. Role in Child Abusers List
By Lawrence Hurleyn
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide under what circumstances a couple could sue Los Angeles County for not taking t...
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Jerome Nadler likens his job to working in an emergency room: chaotic, fast-moving, an...
SAN DIEGO - Pasadena-based OneWest Bank FSB has assumed all of he deposits of La Jolla Bank FSB, which was shut down by federa...
Myron Moskovitz of Golden Gate University distinguishes the winners from the losers in the fight to secure a petition for writ.
Earn one hour of MCLE credit by reading "Nuts and Bolts of Determinate Sentencing" and answering the questions that follow. ...
The selection of Deputy District Attorney David Walgren to prosecute Michael Jackson's doctor signals that the Los Angeles Cou...
General Counsel and Secretary of Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc.La Jolla ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Abducted Child Is Ordered Returned
By John Roemer
A Montana college professor must immediately return his young daughter to her Panamanian mother, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Contra Costa County Superior Court officials sent layoff notices to 16 employees last week as the court struggles to deal with...
One member of the maligned Broadcom prosecution team quietly relocated to Washington, D.C. this week to take a position as dir...
Two Los Angeles city fire captains will receive $1.6 million in damages for being disproportionately disciplined after a prank...
Prominent sexual harassment attorney Philip Kay, who a State Bar judge found in December should be suspended from practicing l...
Unusual battle between industry giants opens this week over drug marketing. ...
Sharon Berman of Berbay Corp. explains what steps to take when assisting corporate counsel with risk management. ...
Assistant Federal Public Defender Harvey Gee asks why criminal law literature has consistently overlooked the role of Asian Am...
Judge Sam Ohta of the Los Angeles County Superior Court unravels the complexities of felony sentencing under the Determinate S...
Tanja Darrow and Jim Hart of Littler Mendelson explain how employers can prepare for and respond to emergency situations. ...
Judge Peter J. Polos cited court money problems, a restrictive judicial pension system, the decline in civil jury trials - and...
Prosecutors open their retrial of former Brocade chief executive Gregory L. Reyes today with a very different legal view of st...
Large Firms
Prominent White Collar Defender Leaves Crowell to Form Firm
By Rebecca U. Cho
A year and a half after Michael Lightfoot folded the white-collar shop he founded into Washington, D.C.-based Crowell & Mo...
Los Angeles County (Los Angeles) Superior Court Judge ...
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...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Firefight at 9th Circuit Over Fake Purple-Heart-Wearing Witness
By John Roemer
Prominent defense attorney John W. Keker is a Marine veteran with a combat record that Elven Joe Swisher could only dream of. ...
The U.S. Department of Justice closed its antitrust investigation of the Internet search and advertising agreement between Mic...
The city of San Diego got a split decision from federal Judge Irma Gonzalez on its campaign financing rules. ...
San Diego-based CONNECT has opened a new office in Washington, D.C. and is now scouting for an advocate to lobby on behalf of ...
The California Supreme Court said judicial policymakers must look into accusations that some court reporters routinely overcha...