Focus Column - By John W. Kim - Commercial landlords can pursue greater claims for tort-related damages against bankrupt tenants.
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has bulked up its insurance recovery group with a former counsel for the Fireman's Fund Insu...
Brett A. Sagel, left, and Kenneth B. Julian violated a professional conduct rule banning lawyers from contacting "represented ...
Litigation
DA Files 47-Page Appeal of Judge's $1-Per-Minute Late Fee
By Jason W. Armstrong
It was just a $5 fine - $1 for each minute he was late to court. And Phillip Greenberg, the deputy district attorney who got t...
Focus Column - By David A. Gerber - In a recent trademark case, the 9th Circuit added further complexity and unpredictability ...
Attorneys representing two Yahoo! Inc. shareholders that had already sued the Sunnyvale-based company and its board of directo...
Judges and Judiciary
Lawmaker Wants Disclosure of New Judges Rated Unqualified
By Linda Rapattoni
A lawmaker, upset over the lack of diversity in the governor's judicial appointments, said he will introduce a bill requiring ...
APX Inc., a Santa Clara-based provider of infrastructure to environmental and energy concerns, selected Gary Guzy, a former Cl...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The country needs to refocus its priorities on middle-class families, and create a politic...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Asking Voters to Provide ID Is Not An Impermissible Burden
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Richard Brent Reed - Given the state's enormous interest in maintaining voter confidence in the electoral pr...
The California Supreme Court lent a sympathetic ear Tuesday to two software engineers who claim they were fired for bringing t...
Government
Boalt Hall Professor Narrowly Avoids Congressional Subpoena
By Lawrence Hurleyn
John Yoo agreed to testify hours before Congress was set to vote to issue a subpoena. He'll tell an oversight committee about ...
In an opinion that attorneys called a significant boon for California domestic partners, a state appeals court Tuesday held th...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
McCain Attacks 'Activist' 9th Circuit in Campaign Speech
By John Roemer
The GOP presidential candidate's whack at appeals court drew swift reaction from California lawyers Tuesday. ...
The Los Angeles office of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips continued snatching partners from O'Melveny & Myers' real estate g...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Prosecutors Investigating Cross-County Patient Dumping
By Evan George
Calling it a "very serious case" of alleged homeless patient dumping, representatives for Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delg...
A landmark employment discrimination lawsuit against one of the world's largest retailers might never have happened were it no...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Doctors, Hospitals Sue State Over Medi-Cal Reductions
By Evan George
A coalition representing 35,000 doctors and nearly every hospital in California sued state health officials Monday in an attem...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Unlawful Immigration Raids Should Trouble All Americans
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - -By Julia Weiland and Alison Sylvester - Immigrant raids, carried out in an atmosphere of fear, intimidation, ...
Focus Column - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - The state Supreme Court's finding in a statute of frauds case overruled multiple long-...
A legal team led by California litigator Pierce O'Donnell of Los Angeles' O'Donnell & Associates has won a key ruling in a...
Forum Column - By Gary Blasi - The L.A. City Council should close the "affordable housing" loophole in the Residential Hotel U...
Here are six environmental cases pending at the California Supreme Court: ...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court Takes New Interest in Environmental Law
By Laura Ernden
California's seminal environmental law has been on the books for nearly 40 years, but it's having a renaissance of late with t...
The California Supreme Court on Monday struck down the death penalty for a man convicted of murder because prosecutors failed ...
Charlotte K. Ito, partner with Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps in San Francisco, specializes in international estate pla...
The federal courthouse in downtown San Diego - damaged by three nail-laden pipe bombs in an early morning blast Sunday - was s...
April closed with deal activity sharply up from March, capped by two mega transactions: Mars Inc.'s $23 billion purchase of th...
Drew Hansen and Mark Phillips, name partners of business litigation boutique Hansen & Phillips, and Michael L. Turrill, fo...
Jim Odriozola fought in Vietnam, tended bar in Mammoth and tried cases as a prosecutor and defense lawyer. Now, lawyers say, O...