Large Firms
Manatt, Associate Get Slapped With Lawsuit Over Movie Deals
By Rebecca U. Cho
A movie production company has sued Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, along with a firm associate, for allegedly fraudulently tra...
Law Practice
Dispute With Debt Collection Firm Leads to Claim of Forged Lawsuit
By Cat Ho
A civil bench trial is slated to begin in Pasadena today to settle a dispute between a Temple City woman who owed $25,000 on ...
Pre-emption is a significant issue in environmental law, writes James M. Sabovich. ...
Solano County's district attorney and one of his investigators were found liable by a jury for retaliation against a bail bond...
Current efforts to reform the justice system provide the backdrop for "Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecuto...
Henry Weinstein is a professor of the practice of law at UC Irvine School of Law. He was a staff writer at the Los Angeles Tim...
The California Supreme Court declined Wednesday to wade into the politically charged debate over state budgets and tax increas...
Law Practice
Mystery E-Mail Leads Del Mar Lawyers to Huge Verdict, New Niche
By Jason W. Armstrong
A mystery email helped Del Mar attorneys secure a whopping verdict for their client in an age discrimination case against Kmar...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Warrants Misused In Steroid Probe
By John Roemer
Federal agents investigating steroid use in major league baseball misused search warrants and subpoenas to wrongly seize playe...
Readers weigh in on coverage of the Judicial Council and a candidate for the federal bench.
Jim Gash, an associate professor at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu and associate dean for student life, gave up...
Lawrence P. Best left his commissioner's seat in 1997 to return to work as a prosecutor, but this time around he's ready to st...
Maria Rodriguez, a longtime advocate for minority women's rights and Senior Council for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, died on...
Adam Brauner grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, before earning a degree in economics from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C....
Students at the UCI School of Law are taking courses such as "Common Law Analysis" and "Statutory Analysis" but some still cal...
The 'Bilski' case provides a good example of how amicus briefing can provide a court with resources that two parties alone pro...
The 9th Circuit recently took its first foray into what a plaintiff must show to establish a whistleblower claim under the Sar...
Public officials shouldn't be able to subvert the Public Records Act simply by using private e-mail accounts, writes Peter Sch...
Georgene Vairo asks: When it comes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, who should be allowed to make changes: the Supreme...
It is important for the parties in a patent license agreement to expressly address which third parties are covered and not cov...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Re-Trial Turns On Culpability Of Ex-CEO
By David Houstonn
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel's decision to overturn a former technology company chief executive's options backdat...
California Courts of Appeal
New High Court Ruling Leads to Murder Reversal
By Laura Ernden
A San Joaquin County murder conviction was thrown out Tuesday because the doctor who performed the autopsy was not allowed to ...
Law Practice
Associate Studied Great Law of China in Sister City Exchange Program
By Sara Randazzon
Derek Rockers went to China for nine weeks earlier this summer, becoming only the second American, and first lawyer, to take p...
Being held in contempt as a litigator had a searing affect on Michael A. Leversen. The Orange County judge, who has a reputati...
A former ballet dancer, Vegas showgirl and hard-charging sex crimes prosecutor, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Karla Kerlin...
The state's largest timber company has withdrawn plans to log certain forests in the Sierra Nevada mountains, a week after the...
Beatrice A. Tice, the associate dean of library and information services, oversaw all aspects of the innovative and creative n...
Federal authorities are dropping their investigation of Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and his wife, Delgadillo's ...
Catherine L. Fisk is the chancellor's professor at UC Irvine School of Law. She writes and teaches in the area of labor and em...
Government
Assembly Makes Heavy Amendments to Prison Reform Bill, Critics Cry Foul
By Evelyn Larrubian
Tension surrounding the controversial plan to reduce the state's prison budget ratcheted up another notch on Monday, when the ...
