The Supreme Court won't get involved in a fight over whether a 29-foot war memorial cross can remain on public land overlooking the Pacific Ocean in San Diego.

San Diego attorney Kate H. Murashige, a senior partner with Morrison & Foerster, was recently honored by Chambers USA with its Lifetime Achievement Award.

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch senior counsel Aubrey A. Haddach will be presented with a Pro Bono Publico award from the Casa Cornelia Law Center's Inn of Court.

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP partner Daniel Hart has been recognized in the inaugural edition of the IAM 1000 – The World's Leading Patent Practitioners 2012.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decisions Monday involving the Mount Soledad cross and Arizona's immigration law likely won't be the high court's final word on those cases, according to local legal experts.

Lawyers can use Facebook, Google and other online tools to their advantage, but they need to be aware of the accompanying pitfalls, according to a social media panel held at the San Diego County Bar Association this week.

Health care reform in America has to be more than just the legislative change that is currently being reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Nearly all political and business leaders agree that the current trend of growth in health spending is unsustainable, and failure to slow this growth puts the nation at risk of serious economic harm. While costly medical technologies and related changes in medicine have been estimated to drive 50 percent or more of growth in health spending, most believe that health information technologies (health IT), such as electronic health records, are key to transforming the system and slowing the growth of health spending.

The California Supreme Court has declined to review an appellate court's ruling that Tri-City Healthcare District's unfair business practice claims against Scripps Health Inc. are not subject to arbitration.

Vaughn Walker, the former U.S. district court judge who overturned California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, downplayed his role in the historic case.

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC member Pedro Suarez has been reappointed to the board of directors of STC.UNM, a nonprofit corporation formed and owned entirely by the University of New Mexico to protect and transfer its faculty inventions to the commercial marketplace.

San Diego Superior Court plans to eliminate 250 employee positions and close or restructure more than 40 courtrooms in the next two years because of drastic state budget cuts.

A Superior Court judge has delayed ruling on whether to unseal search warrants in the murder investigation of a Camp Pendleton Marine's wife.

A jury awarded two Lakeside residents $8 million in an eminent domain dispute with San Diego Gas & Electric involving property to be used for the company's Sunrise Powerlink project.

A federal judge has denied an attempt by Sharp Healthcare to be reimbursed more than $600,000 for care given to five surrogates and the infants they delivered as part of a baby-selling fraud scheme.

A California court of appeals overturned Tuesday a trial court ruling that halted a legal challenge to Proposition B prior to the primary election, when the pension reform measure won overwhelming voter approval.

It's taken an additional two weeks of counting, but it looks like Ramona attorney Gary Kreep has won a seat on the San Diego Superior Court bench.

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP recently won the 2012 Heilbron Award for the mid-sized San Diego business category. The award recognizes companies that exemplify the pay-it-forward spirit by giving their professional expertise to advance the well-being and success of others in the community.

The Litigation Counsel of America (LCA), a trial lawyer honorary society, has selected Foley & Lardner LLP partner Nancy L. Stagg as a Fellow in recognition of her litigation experience and accomplishments. LCA Fellowship status is regarded as a professional honor, representing individuals who have demonstrated excellence in litigation at both the trial and appellate levels as well as superior ethical reputation.

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton partner Steve LaSala led a team in the sale of Enaqua, a privately held San Diego company specializing in the use of UV technology to disinfect water, to Grundfos, a global pump manufacturer based in Denmark. The purchase marks a step toward Grundfos' ambition of deriving one-third of its future turnover from sources other than pump solutions and being a trendsetter in water technology.