After investment in the clean technology sector tanked earlier this year, two reports released Tuesday spell good news for the...
California Courts of Appeal
Appeals Case Went On and On -- and Could Go On Some More
By Laura Ernden
After more than three years and two oral arguments, the 4th District Court of Appeal finally got to the bottom of a case about...
Law Practice
Federal Authorities Investigating Payments to LA City Councilman, Former School Board Member
By Evelyn Larrubian
Federal authorities are investigating Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar and former Los Angeles Unified School Board memb...
Judge Hector Ramon puts his childhood experience navigating arguments between seven siblings to good use in the courtroom. ...
David Wotherspoon and Katherine Gower ask: Does Canada deserve to be on par with India and China for trademark, patent and cop...
The Screen Actors Guild is trying to enlarge its piece of the $1 billion pie that companies spend on athlete endorsements. ...
Securities
Federal Appeals Court Rebuffs Commission on Foreign Currency Enforcement
By Gabe Friedmann
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals beaned the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday for bri...
The National Association for Law Placement released its annual survey of law firm associate compensation last week, but the st...
U.S. employers laying off foreign workers should be careful to comply with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services regulatio...
Richard Posell discusses the rationale behind a judge's order halting an unauthorized sequel to "A Catcher in the Rye." ...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the ACLU, among other groups, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review an Arizona law requiring...
Instructions on the "reasonable doubt" standard can be ambiguous and confusing, writes Dean D. Pregerson. ...
The Consumer Attorneys of California has begun a new push to topple the state's restrictive cap on damages in medical malpract...
Employers can set up hidden cameras in the workplace, but they'd better have good reasons for doing it and tread carefully to ...
Yahoo's general counsel, Mike Callahan, talks about why the Justice Department should approve the Yahoo-Microsoft search partn...
In July, the justice bus delivered a load of law students and attorneys to provide pro bono help to residents of Marin County,...
Civil Rights
Lawyers Take 'Justice Bus' To Serve Poor Clients in Marin County
By Dhyana Levey
Low-income citizens in need of legal services got free advice this week from lawyers and summer associates who volunteered to ...
Solo and Small Firms
Crusading Against Medical Malpractice - With or Without Legal Fees
By Susan Mcraen
Los Angeles personal injury firm Michels & Watkins, which employs a physician on staff, specializes in medical malpractice...
Attorneys in the Southern California offices of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton and Sullivan & Cromwell played key r...
Britain went through a routine similar to the one unfolding between the U.S. government and GM, only to wind up with no automo...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA To Vote on Gay Marriage, Universal Health Care Policies
By Amy Yarbroughn
The American Bar Association's House of Delegates meets in Chicago today and Tuesday to consider a host of policy recommendati...
Environmental
Upfront Investments Could Aid Energy Efficiency, Report Finds
By Fiona Smith
There is a huge unrealized opportunity to save energy starting today if the country could overcome regulatory, financial and c...
California's new rules governing electronically stored information differ from the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, write Dav...
Randy Berholtz, lawyer, businessman and teacher, tries hard to keep aspiring life science entrepreneurs from screwing up. And ...
Some law firms haven't touched their Web site in years—or worse, they don't have one at all, writes Sharon Berman. ...
Government
Budget Crunch Will Shut Down Redlands Courthouse in October
By Jason W. Armstrong
The Redlands courthouse, which handles probate and traffic cases, will close down on October 12, San Bernardino County Superio...
Giving summer associates pro bono provides them a meaningful experience instead of a treadmill of memoranda, write Brent D. So...
Judges and Judiciary
State Judge Is Obama's First Pick for Federal Bench in California
By Evelyn Larrubian
President Barack Obama on Friday nominated Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Jacquelyn H. Nguyen as a U.S. district cour...
Thousands of people each year sell a portion of the annuities they receive as court awards or in settlements to a specialized ...
Earlier in life, William R. Redmond gave tours of Alcatraz as a park ranger and later prosecuted offenders as a deputy distric...