Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Long Beach) ...
Judge George Abdallah Jr. helps attorneys grow by challenging the foundation of their arguments.
A highly competitive fellowship teams graduate students seeking business experience with companies eager to gain extra hands o...
Last week, three cancer patients and three physicians sued in superior court asserting that the state Constitution assures men...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Keys to successful mediation — Part II
By Ben Armisteadn
Once you have properly and fully prepared for the mediation, what next? By Charles G. "Skip" Rubin ...
Californians may enjoy more protective rights to stored Web-based electronic communication to the extent federal law purports ...
The Oscars are around the corner, so here's a review of some of the more interesting intellectual property disputes involving ...
Auction.com Inc. named Lee Leslie as executive vice president and chief legal officer after serving as the company's interim g...
Irell & Manella hosts diversity scholarship ceremony ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Ethics opinion explores how to withdraw without revealing client confidences
By Don Debenedictisn
Attorneys caught between an ethical demand to withdraw from a case and a court order to disclose the confidential reasons must...
Litigation
Federal judge files suit in alleged hit-and-run of his son
By Deirdre Newmann
A federal judge has filed a wrongful death suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against the alleged driver in a hit-and-r...
Public Interest
LA legal nonprofits see turnover in top jobs in recent months
By Melanie Brisbon
Legal nonprofits in Southern California appear to be going through a bit of a shake up, with a slate of leaders departing rece...
Kronenberger Rosenfeld LLP was one of the first Internet litigation boutiques in the San Francisco Bay Area and quickly establ...
California Courts of Appeal
Attorney must cough up $1.5 million in fees to San Francisco firm
By Fiona Smith
A state appellate court sides with Calvo Fisher & Jacob LLP and orders Guam-based attorney David Lujan to pay the firm for...
Judges and Judiciary
Series of powder-laced envelopes marked for LA courthouses
By Matthew Blaken
The Van Nuys and downtown Stanley Mosk Courthouse were the recipients of suspect-looking letters. ...
Claifornia's support of secured lenders has meant that the well-publicized 'robo-signing' cases that appeared nationwide sever...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
In case that could affect many workers' pay, 9th Circuit seeks state high court help
By John Roemer
Baffled federal appellate judges asked the state Supreme Court for help Thursday in solving a labor law puzzle over the meanin...
Government
Judicial Council to cut salaries, benefits ahead of budget negotiations
By Paul Jones
California court leaders said Thursday they would reform executive compensation packages and reduce their fleet of 66 vehicles...
Among a recent batch of lawyers disciplined by the state Supreme Court and the State Bar Court, nine got into trouble for larg...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court's anti-arbitration ruling to be tested in 9th Circuit
By John Roemer
The state Supreme Court's sustained pushback against blanket enforcement of arbitration agreements is about to come under fede...
General Counsel of Pasadena Area Community College District ...
The review procedures created by the America Invents Act often involes a complicated and unpredictable inquiry. By Clem Robert...
Perspective
Campaign finance jurisprudence leaves criminal prosecutions untouched
By Ben Armisteadn
There is at least one area of campaign finance law that remains unscathed by Supreme Court's recent precedents: the strictly c...
The latest from the Antitrust Division is a refinement of its "carrot and stick" - with an emphasis on new "sticks." By Roxann...
A Taco Bell franchisee and a restaurant manager are the defendants in a racial discrimination, racial harassment and wrongful ...
Christopher J. Lovrien was named partner in charge of the California region, while David C. Kiernan was appointed administrati...
Government
Courts set to see changes to funding for child welfare attorneys
By Paul Jones
After years of complaints, the judicial branch is looking seriously at pegging funding for court-ordered dependency counsel to...
The owner of a Petaluma slaughterhouse became the latest to plead guilty to participating in a gruesome scheme to sell misbran...
Judges and Judiciary
Southern District judges sentence more criminals than anywhere else in the state
By Deirdre Newmann
Federal judges based along the Southwest border, including California's Southern District, sentence more criminal defendants t...
Litigation
Ex-employee sues fashion school for discrimination, wrongful termination
By Kibkabe Arayan
A former Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising creative director filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Los Angeles after being ...