Earn one hour of MCLE credit by reading "The Power of Prop. 36" and answering the questions that follow.
Attorney General Jerry Brown accused Wells Fargo Thursday of bilking California investors out of $1.5 billion by falsely assur...
Labor/Employment
State High Court to Take Up Laws Governing Worker Travel
By Laura Ernden
California labor laws are like speed limits. Employers have to follow the rules of each state in which the employee works, sai...
Law Practice
Iconoclast and Famed Antitrust Lawyer Didn't Conform to Convention
By Rebecca Beyer
Eliot G. Disner, who won more than $100 million in jury verdicts over the course of his long career, gained notice for his ant...
Orange County is in the midst of a last ditch legal effort to reverse costly pension benefits it promised sheriff's deputies, ...
Litigation
Judge Guts Whistleblower Suit Against the Port of Los Angeles
By Susan Mcraen
A federal judge has gutted a long-running whistleblower lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles and other defendants that accu...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Appeals Court Upholds Bar Exam Settlement
By Jack Changn
A federal appellate panel let stand Thursday a $49 million national class action settlement filed by law students claiming two...
Attorneys say mediator Vivien Williamson doesn't give up until a case is settled - but never resorts to being too pushy. ...
Government
Two Months On, Community Court in the Tenderloin Still Prompts Debate
By Dhyana Levey
San Francisco's Community Justice Center, which combines court and social services, has stirred controversy since before it op...
Criminal
All-Star Lineup for L.A. City Attorney Candidate Becomes a No Hitter
By Greg Katzn
Eight district attorneys from Southern California were supposedly scheduled to show up at Los Angeles City Hall Thursday after...
Menstruation leaves and tea breaks? Ute Krudewagon and Kelly Going examine curiosities in international employment laws. ...
The upward spike in California foreclosures should spur the Legislature to enact a remedy with an alternative path: mandatory ...
The recent release of four Justice Department memos has pushed a range of liberal politicians and activist groups to examine h...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Immigrant Families Face a Tough Road From 'Them' to 'Us'
By Sara Libbyn
Hiroshi Motomura offers a poignant and panoramic view of U.S. immigration policies over the past 200 years. ...
The unsecured creditors of bankrupt San Francisco firm Heller Ehrman filed a lawsuit challenging the firm's banks' secured int...
A Los Angeles judge on Thursday threw out two bellwether damages cases lodged against Dole Food Co. Inc. by Nicaraguan plaint...
Courts have reached contrary conclusions on whether insurance companies must cover punitive damage awards, writes Kirk A. Pasich.
A conflicted U.S. Supreme Court struggled Wednesday with the touchy question of whether employers trying to adhere to anti-dis...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Warns Lawyers in Loan Work About False Ads
By Amy Yarbroughn
The State Bar has sent letters to attorneys doing loan modification work checking that lawyers aren't using advertising that p...
Judges and Judiciary
Federal Judge in Los Angeles Says She Will Retire From the Bench Next Year
By Susan Mcraen
Citing unspecified family reasons, U.S. District Judge Florence Marie Cooper said she will resign from the federal bench, effe...
The state Supreme Court dismissed review of a $55 million punitive damages award against Ford Motor Co. involving an SUV rollo...
Perspective
Company Disclosures Must Keep Pace With Changing Environmental Landscape
By Sara Libbyn
Jane B. Kroesche and Stacy E. Kray discuss how climate change regulation is already impacting California businesses. ...
Law Practice
BERG: To Fix Nation's Finances, President Obama Needs to Fight the Fine Print
By Martin Bergn
Candidate Obama promised a tough line against rapacious credit card companies. Columnist Martin Berg wonders: Will President O...
A recent high court decision may give California facilities some breathing room in regard to a controversial environmental pol...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
The Gamble That Redefined the Fourteenth Amendment
By Sara Libbyn
"A Class Apart: A Mexican American Civil Rights Story" illuminates the history and innovative legal theory behind a landmark S...
Thanks to cell phones, MySpace and other technologies, teenagers these days have more ways to find themselves in trouble than ...
A California appellate court has bucked the trend of increasing the liability contractors face for their work, write Stephen N...
A court has rejected an appeal by Deborah Peagler, a former street prostitute dying of cancer who is serving a life sentence f...
Large Firms
Sidley Austin, KPMG Must Go to Trial in Suit Filed by Client
By Amanda Becker
A state appellate court has ruled that a case accusing the accounting firm KPMG and the law firm Sidley Austin of breach of fi...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday made it easier for immigrants fighting deportation orders to remain in the country while t...