In the heat of litigation, attorneys can overlook essential steps or terms. So why not consider checklists to avoid mistakes? ...
Government lawyers got the green light from the California Supreme Court Monday to team up with outside counsel on a contingen...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Updates Discipline Rules, Nixes 'Screening' Of Conflict Clients
By Don Debenedictisn
Sending a major rewrite of the California lawyer discipline rules on to the Supreme Court, the State Bar nixed three proposals...
Former career prosecutor Renée Korn says it was challenging to switch from advocate to independent arbiter. Lawyers say the Lo...
Lawyers say Gary Tanaka, a juvenile court judge in Los Angeles County, takes time to fully understand what's best for the chil...
On the 20th anniversary of the ADA, plaintiff attorneys and others said the law that took down physical impediments and helped...
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Proposition 21, passed in 2000, has complicated the question of whether a juvenile under the age of 18 can be tried as an adul...
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Two U.S. senators have asked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to address whether the Treasury Department may grant plaintif...
A new survey of first-year salaries for law school graduates contains sobering news for the class of 2010, with a finding that...
Facebook Inc. scored a victory last week when plaintiffs' attorneys dismissed a class action that claimed the social networkin...
In a novel move in the rapidly growing arena of false patent marking, the claim against one defendant was dismissed for lack o...
The City of Huntington Park's public financing authority is suing the law firm Best Best & Krieger, alleging legal malprac...
Los Angeles County officials are finalizing a contract that would give the Office of Independent Review authority to monitor t...
Federal prosecutors are going forward with their perjury case against former Giants slugger Barry Bonds, but a trial likely wo...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Affirms BALCO Conviction
By John Roemer
Federal prosecutors' 2008 perjury and obstruction of justice convictions of former Olympic cyclist Tammy A. Thomas in the firs...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
The Pass-On Defense to Antitrust Violations: Not All Gone
By Carla Pinedan
California is now the preferential forum for antitrust claims, by Jules S. Zeman of Haight Brown & Bonesteel. ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bill Hebert Elected State Bar President
By Don Debenedictisn
San Francisco litigator Bill Hebert will be the new president of the State Bar of California beginning in September. ...
As election season approaches, confusion reigns over how the U.S. Supreme Court's recent landmark campaign finance ruling that...
The 3rd District Court of Appeal is facing major turnover in the coming months, and the Sacramento legal community is buzzing ...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...
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Riverside Commissioner Bambi J. Moyer hears as many as 200 misdemeanor matters a day. She attributes her success to multi-task...
The governor's nominee for California's 28th chief justice displayed ease in front of cameras Thursday as she was introduced t...
Fenwick & West lawyers are handling the initial public offering of Monrovia, Calif.-based prepaid credit card provider Gre...
The California Supreme Court agreed to review Wednesday whether a lawsuit against prominent plaintiffs' attorney Tom Girardi s...
Proposition 8 plaintiffs' attorney Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. told a group of summer associates at a luncheon Thursday he's hope...
Three men were sentenced to 90 days in Los Angeles County jail Wednesday in connection to scuffles with police officers during...