Letters to the Editor - Parties in coerced arbitrations never see justice.
Government approvals are arguably the most challenging aspect for foreign investors of completing a deal in China, writes Simo...
Employment (Focus & Forum)
Collaboration Is Key to Accommodating Injured Workers
By Sara Libbyn
Employers must work closely with employees who need accomodations and employees' doctors to review all determine if the employ...
Law Practice
Breyer, O'Connor Raise Concerns About State Judicial Elections
By Lawrence Hurleyn
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her former colleague, Justice Stephen Breyer, warned Thursday that a flo...
Environmentalists launched a new wave of attacks against the Bush administration's treatment of endangered species Thursday, f...
The increasingly high-profile debate over the extent to which federal law trumps state law takes center stage Monday when the ...
A wrongful death lawsuit brought against individual public health officials by the family of a former detained immigrant can m...
A former Reed Smith partner has joined the newly formed Los Angeles office of Alston & Bird.
Entertainment & Sports
Talent Manager Turns Up Heat on Labor Commission
By Cortney Fieldingn
Two weeks after a federal judge rejected his suit, a persistent talent manager refuses to give up his fight against the state ...
The U.S. Supreme Court chose Wednesday not to revisit its sharply divided June decision to ban execution as a punishment for c...
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide to what extent courts can apportion the cost of cleaning up Superfund sites among different...
Months after recall alerts went out, more than a dozen California hospitals continued giving tainted heparin to hundreds of pa...
Law Practice
Appeals Court Upholds Judgment Conviction Against Los Angeles Lawyer
By Laura Ernden
A Court of Appeal has upheld a legal malpractice judgment against Los Angeles attorney Eddie Jamison. He is accused of failing...
An emergency measure recently signed into law is intended to help developers and builders in this uncertain real estate market...
“A permanent ban on home construction cannot be based merely on a fear of personal injury or significant property damage,” Pre...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Proposition 8 Unfairly Imposes Religious Views on a Diverse State
By Sara Libbyn
In democratic societies, individuals get to choose whose religious rules — if any — they want to live by, which is why Proposi...
Litigation
Governor Vetoes Bill That Would Have Limited Residential Care Arbitration Requirements
By Greg Katzn
A bill to limit arbitration in consumer contracts that had strong backing from plaintiffs' attorneys has failed to gain the go...
A Riverside jury has awarded a retired lawyer $11.6 million for auto accident injuries he claimed were caused by Caltrans' neg...
Employee Benefits
9th Circuit OKs San Francisco's 'Pay or Play' Health Plan
By Evan George
In a decision that could inspire more city-sponsored health care programs across the country, a federal appeals court on Tuesd...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Same-Sex Divorce Creates New Legal Pitfalls
By Greg Katzn
Same-sex divorce is "a ripe area for mediation," said Los Angeles family law mediator and attorney Diane Goodman of Goodman Me...
Law Practice
Sonnenschein Loses Nine to Seyfarth's Planned L.A. Office
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho
A nine-attorney group, including five corporate and real estate partners, has jumped to the Century City office of Seyfarth Sh...
Did the government violate the Fourth Amendment during a sweeping seizure of the medical records and drug testing results of M...
In-house attorneys are continuing to draw bigger salaries, but large corporations are employing fewer of them, a survey releas...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Delegates Vote 'No' on Paying Court Mediators
By Greg Katzn
A closely watched proposal aimed at paying volunteer court mediators for their services has suffered a defeat by the State Bar...
A proposed change to the Endangered Species Act would amend the regulations implementing Section 7, which requires federal age...
Law Practice
Jury Deliberations Start Today In Trial of Former McAfee GC
By Rebecca Beyer
Web Exclusive - The criminal stock options case against McAfee Inc.'s former general counsel went to a jury Tuesday, and seeme...
Law Practice
Heller Antitrust Litigator Goes to WilmerHale
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho
Top antitrust litigator Robert G. Badal will be departing Heller Ehrman for Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr's Los Angele...
Law Practice
Citing Privacy Concerns, Judge Rejects Subpoenas in Piracy Case
By Craig Andersonn
On privacy grounds, a U.S. magistrate judge granted a protective order blocking satellite television provider EchoStar from fi...
Lawyers for homeowners who claim failed IndyMac Bank cheated them won a quick and potentially significant victory Tuesday agai...
Lawyers for Mattel have asked a federal judge to bar rival toymaker MGA Entertainment from continuing to make or sell the popu...
