Litigation
Los Angeles city attorney's office sues utility billing contractor for fraud
By Kibkabe Arayan
The city of Los Angeles filed a breach of contract and fraudulent inducement lawsuit Friday against PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP...
Labor/Employment
Agriculture employee suit raises question of pregnancy accommodations
By Matthew Blaken
A new federal lawsuit has been filed while the U.S. Supreme Court reviews another case and the EEOC offers guidance on accommo...
Litigation
Los Angeles Housing Authority settles trash fee class action for $3.3 million
By America Hernandez
More than 4,000 public housing residents will be reimbursed for monthly garbage pickup fees unlawfully added to their rent. ...
Law Practice
LA minority students get an introduction to legal education
By Melanie Brisbon
Minority students from Dorsey High School in Los Angeles received an introduction to law school and the legal profession thank...
Litigation
Statute of limitations blocks malpractice suit, judge rules
By Saul Sugarman
A Los Angeles County judge has dropped a malpractice lawsuit against Crowell & Moring LLP, ruling that the plaintiff did n...
Law Practice
AlvaradoSmith shareholder opens first CA office for PIB law
By Deirdre Newmann
John M. Sorich, mortgage litigator and shareholder at Los Angeles-based AlvaradoSmith APC, has departed the firm with six atto...
Latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows 4,900 positions were added last month. ...
Event draws curious crowds ...
The state high court recently refused to review a decision that brings California into line with Delaware and other jurisdict...
Law Practice
Firms making more offers to new hires, summer associates
By Kibkabe Arayan
Entry-level recruiting at law firms increased during the last half of 2014, reaching pre-recession numbers and contributing to...
Entertainment & Sports
'Blurred Lines' trial outcome may be affected by key judicial decisions
By America Hernandez
An eight-member jury began its first full day of deliberations Friday in the high-profile dispute over whether the 2013 pop hi...
Superior Court Judge Laura Matz in Glendale sticks to the law and the codes to ensure fairness.
A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.
Judge Robert L. Hess asks detailed questions to focus on substantive issues and save trial time.
The onetime Unabomber prosecutor is enjoying service as a Sacramento County juvenile judge.
The acquittal this week of two realtors accused of bank and wire fraud highlighted the controversial suspect interview protoco...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Calls for outside-the-box thinking to resolve disputes
By Ben Armisteadn
The increasingly complicated world of litigation, coupled with the crippling effects of budget cuts on the judicial system, ca...
The "transitive principle" is logical, predictable and reliable, and undeniably, unequivocally and universally true ... except...
California Supreme Court
New associate justice to lead language access task force
By John Roemer
Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye on Thursday named 15 judicial officers and others, led by Associate Justice Mariano-Flore...
Litigation
Johnson & Johnson will pay Tehachapi woman $5.7 million for defective mesh
By Kibkabe Arayan
The Bakersfield jury announced the verdict Thursday against the pharmaceutical company tangled in over 36,000 other pelvic mes...
Solo and Small Firms
Small firm's attorneys work to change long-term health care for elders
By Melanie Brisbon
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Long Beach, Garcia, Artigliere, & Medby is an elder abuse legal practice with a speci...
Pharmacyclics, Inc., maker of the cancer-treatment drug Imbruvica, was aquired by AbbVie Inc. with the guidance of law firm Wi...
Intellectual Property
Patent prosecutors face tougher tests after Supreme Court ruling
By Kevin Lee
Lawyers seeking protection for their clients' inventions are facing new challenges due to recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings an...
Law Practice
More in-house attorneys look to billing software to ease legal cost woes
By Melanie Brisbon
For David M. Howard, general counsel of Hortonworks Inc., contract management and legal costs are two of the most frequent iss...
Arbitrator Profile
Eric Green, who all but invented dispute mediation, is still going strong
By John Roemer
Alternative dispute resolution was born in a clash over coffee almost four decades ago, according to pioneer mediator Eric D. ...
California Supreme Court
Compassionate release must be considered for ill inmate, state high court rules
By Saul Sugarman
The 4th District Court of Appeal must consider compassionate release for a terminally ill prisoner in San Diego, the state Sup...
Washington D.C.-based Covington & Burling LLP will officially open a Los Angeles office on Monday. ...
Most prominent among lawyers disciplined recently is the former district attorney of little Del Norte County. In addition, a f...
California judges are still composed of mostly white men, but women and minorities are slowly increasing their bench presence....
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Attorney jailed for contempt is released, but criticizes judge, marshals
By Don Debenedictisn
U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II released Caree Harper after she answered his questions about her client. But Harper said...