Law firms are implementing several alternatives to control costs while maintaining quality over the e-discovery process, writ...
John Benassi, 1948-2008, loved practicing Brazilian jiu jitsu so much that he even treated his summer associates to a demonstr...
Our federal courts should continue to recognize that the Alien Tort Statute has an important role to play in protecting the mo...
“People have a right to expect to be treated in a way consistent with the Constitution, especially when it comes to the privac...
Law Practice
Jurors Hear More About Pellicano's 'Unique Techniques' on Tapes
By Martin Bergn
A federal jury Tuesday heard recordings of private investigator Anthony Pellicano tell attorney Terry N. Christensen details f...
The Internet's governing body, determined to stop cyber-scammers from taking advantage of a loophole, has adopted a plan to ...
Attorneys in the damages phase of the Bratz doll copyright infringement case questioned witnesses in a fierce back-and-forth b...
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Kevin L. Brown embraces the challenge of the Compton courthouse, where the calendar i...
Epstein Becker & Green nabs a long-time Los Angeles entertainment litigator.
Law Practice
Congress Approves Loan Assistance Programs for Public Sector Lawyers
By Lawrence Hurleyn
Congress has passed a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act that includes a law school payment assistance program for fl...
Palo Alto-based Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has agreed to pay $9.5 million in hopes of ending a long-running probe of...
Law Practice
San Diego Corporate Attorney Tapped to Lead Luce Forward
By Devan Mcclainen
Corporate attorney Kurt Kicklighter has been elected managing partner of San Diego-based firm Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Sc...
The California Supreme Court’s approach to comparative juror analysis has vacillated from warm embrace to firm disapproval to ...
A recent appellate decision is of great importance and benefit to judgment creditors, write Jerome J. Blum and Allan Herzlich....
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Why Isn't Anyone Questioning the Legality of Our Afghanistan Affair?
By Sara Libbyn
Practically no one in the United States is currently questioning the legality or propriety of U.S. military involvement in Afg...
Litigation
Bratz Judge Rejects Mistrial Motion Over Juror's Racial Remark
By Jason W. Armstrong
A federal judge Monday denied MGA Entertainment's motion for a mistrial in the Bratz doll copyright infringement case, finding...
Web Exclusive - In a decision closely watched by Hollywood studios, a court Monday gave a green light to Cablevision Systems C...
A plea bargain is a plea bargain, even if it means the defendant gets deported, the California Supreme Court said Monday. ...
O'Melveny & Myers has opened an office in Singapore.
Miriam A. Vogel, who retired last month as a justice on the 2nd District Court of Appeal, starts the next phase of her career ...
A convicted murderer testifying at a hearing on his habeas corpus petition last week took a bizarre detour into the still-unso...
A lawyer for Mattel says a U.S. Supreme Court decision that jurors' remarks during deliberations cannot nullify a verdict trum...
Law Practice
Ex-Wife Gets Payday After Cop Failed to Update Life Insurance
By Amelia Hansenn
A sharply divided panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the ex-wife of a slain police officer was e...
Reed Smith had been scouting out ways to open in Silicon Valley since 2003, when it merged with Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roac...
In practice and to create legal certainty, a product's warranty terms should make clear whose life is relevant and how 'lifeti...
Litigation
MGA Picks Howard Rice Attorneys to Handle Appellate Work
By Jason W. Armstrong
MGA Entertainment has tapped well-known San Francisco litigators Jerome B. Falk Jr. and Douglas A. Winthrop to serve as appell...
In less than two years as a lawyer, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker’s Abigail W. Lloyd has amassed an impressive caselo...
Government
Governor's Legal Advisers Are Veterans of Payroll Controversy
By Peter Matuszakn
Andrea Hoch, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's legal affairs secretary, and her chief deputy, were part of a team that argued befor...
A federal judge overseeing litigation involving the painkillers Bextra and Celebrex on Friday ordered plaintiffs to submit inf...
Family Law Judge Wendy G. Getty forgoes the robe and bench to sit down with all the attorneys and parties for some candid disc...