Ropes & Gray snagged San Francisco assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Li-Ming Wong to join the firm’s government enforcement ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Los Angeles' ADR Market to Add 'High-End' Dispute Resolution Boutique
By Greg Katzn
The crowded Los Angeles mediation market is about to get a new competitor. ...
Law Practice
Dreier's Law Firm in L.A. Moves to Block Taint of Scandal
By Amanda Becker
The Los Angeles affiliate of Dreier LLP will continue to operate as a separate entity from its New York headquarters now that ...
The Anti-Defamation League, a national civil rights organization that raises awareness of anti-Semitism and bigotry, will hono...
The firms K&L Gates and Chicago-based Bell, Boyd & Lloyd are considering a possible merger next year, hoping the combi...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Building a Common Sense Solution to Construction Defect Disputes
By Sara Libbyn
AB 2738 was borne out of the collaborative efforts of builders and subcontractors working closely together to gain consensus i...
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday not to take up Sunnyvale-based Finisar Corp.'s efforts to reinstate a $104 million paten...
California courts of appeal have allowed government entities and their employees to use the anti-SLAPP statute to strike lawsu...
Law Practice
Polanski Faces Uphill Battle Seeking Rape Case Dismissal Conviction
By Alan Mittelstaedtn
Roman Polanski's recent allegations of judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the sentencing phase of his 1970s statutory ra...
Declaring that school officials "may need an incentive" to protect "special needs" students from attack, an appellate panel in...
Rick Frenkel, the one-time "Patent Troll Tracker" who was sued earlier this year along with his former employer, Cisco Systems...
Judges and Judiciary
L.A. Judge Who Ruled in Homosexual-Outing Case to Retire From Bench
By Pat Alston
County Superior Court Judge Kathryne A. Stoltz will leave the Van Nuys Courthouse this month after 23 years on the bench. ...
Law Practice
Supreme Court Seems Ready to Reverse 9th Circuit a Third Time
By Lawrence Hurleyn
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to overturn the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, for the third time this term, over an antitru...
Two legendary retired San Francisco homicide inspectors, one a former police chief, will remain the target of a civil rights s...
Attorneys trying to persuade a judge to award them lodestar fees should stress they used conservative billing practices and ma...
Latham & Watkins has hired a long-time U.S. Department of Justice attorney as a partner in the firm's Washington D.C. office.
Law Practice
9th Circuit to Judge: Take Two on Movie Access for Wheelchair Users
By John Roemer
A trial judge in Los Angeles went too far in trying to help movie-going wheelchair users, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal...
Stanford Law School will unveil a first-of-its-kind online database today that tracks every patent lawsuit filed in the United...
Immigration officials were wrong to strip the immigrant choir director of a Los Angeles--area Korean Presbyterian church of hi...
A recent 9th Circuit decision illustrates that persuading the Court of Appeals to intercede in ongoing trial court proceedings...
A second defendant in the spring bombing of a federal court building and Federal Express distribution center in San Diego has ...
The dissolving Heller Ehrman found itself in more hot water last week when the landlord of its former San Francisco headquarte...
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal nabbed a leading insurance regulatory lawyer to gear up for what the firm believes will be a...
The number of legal jobs declined for the sixth consecutive month in November and contributed to the largest monthly employmen...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Crimes Against the Homeless Should Catch Congress' Attention
By Sara Libbyn
In response to evidence that systematic, dehumanizing bias is at the heart of many crimes against homeless people, Congress sh...
A judge in Alameda has revised an earlier award in the closely watched Sprint early-termination fee telecom case and ruled tha...
Intellectual Property
San Diego Biotech Lawyers Thrive Despite Economic Downturn
By Susan Mcraen
Although many law firms are reeling from the ailing economy, the area of intellectual property appears to be thriving. ...
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Friday to hear what will be the last of the major detainee cases arising from the Bush administ...
Centered on a 2005 Los Angeles criminal trial of a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton's initial Senate campaign, Paul Mark Sandler...
Arent Fox is bringing on a bankruptcy attorney from Sheppard Mullin as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office.