National security, consumer protection and restoring independence and non-partisanship to a Justice Department roiled by a ras...
U.S. Supreme Court
Sotomayor to Students: Follow the Law, Don't Make Policy
By Lawrence Hurleyn
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's class on appellate advocacy, which she taught at Columbia Law School for a decade...
The State Bar Fairness Act would make sure Bar prosecutors receive the same scrutiny they give to Bar members, writes David A....
Without better enforcement, slumlords will keep profiting from keeping their tenants in deplorable living conditions, writes ...
Damage a natural resource like a tree or an invertebrate and you might be liable for damages, write Alan N. Bick, James M. Sab...
The firm founded by former Los Angeles County District Attorney Ira Reiner has been accused of stiffing a court reporting serv...
Mid-size California law firms haven't been immune to the challenges presented by the economic downturn, but they claim to have...
Advocates for improving environmental conditions for low-income communities Wednesday mounted the first legal challenge to the...
Robert Plotkin's book "Genie in the Machine" examines the implications of artificial invention technology for patent law.
The Prop. 8 decision overlooks the structural underpinnings of the California Constitution, writes Allen Lanstra.
The facts of the cases San Diego litigator James W. Huston handles often sound as intriguing as the plots of one of his bestse...
Intellectual Property
Frontier Technologies to Get Much-Needed Guidance From High Court
By Sara Libbyn
The uncertain fate of business method patents leaves many companies scrambling to figure out what to do until the Supreme Cour...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Face Time Can Go a Long Way Toward Settling Legal Battles
By Sara Libbyn
Southern California seems to be at a very different place in the evolution of the use of mediation than the rest of the countr...
Health care providers should become familiar with new amendments to the False Claims Act, write Peter B. Hutt II and Robert S....
Luke Cole, a pioneer of the environmental justice movement and leader of the Center for Race, Poverty & the Environment, w...
A congressional task force headed by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, unanimously approved articles of impeachment Tuesday for a ...
Law Practice
Lawmaker Weighs Liability for Accountants, But Are Politics at Work?
By Evelyn Larrubian
In the wake of allegations of accounting fraud by KPMG in its dealings with subprime mortgage lender New Century Financial Cor...
Citing newfound jailhouse recordings that apparently undermined a key witness, a federal judge threw out the two most serious ...
Large Firms
Pillsbury Slicing Associates' Salaries as Much as 20 Percent
By Sara Randazzon
San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman became the latest firm to cut associate salaries, rolling out a new reduct...
Kenneth B. Julian, an assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, is joining the white co...
Litigation
Guards at S.F. Federal Courthouse Allege Major Security Breaches
By Rebecca Beyer
Court security officers working in the San Francisco federal courthouse have used drugs and alcohol while on duty, let a convi...
Law Practice
Campaign Finance Case Against L.A. Trial Lawyer Is Gutted
By Evelyn Larrubian
A federal judge on Monday dismissed two of three campaign-finance violation charges against Los Angeles trial lawyer Pierce H....
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Was 'Music-Maker' of the Ventura County Court
By Pat Alston
Judge Douglas W. Daily, an accomplished guitarist who often entertained at court celebrations, died May 2, just seven weeks af...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
When It Comes to Joint Session Negotiations, Talk Isn't Cheap
By Sara Libbyn
Small talk during joint sessions can put the parties into a collaborative mood, writes Victoria Pynchon. ...
Law Practice
Shartsis Friese Blames JPMorgan for $1 Million Retirement Plan Error
By Jill Redhage
In a trial that opened Monday in federal court in San Francisco, the law firm's attorney, Frank Cialone, claimed the consultan...
There are many potential potholes on the jury instruction road, writes Jens Koepke.
Entertainment & Sports
The Struggle Over Content and Technology Will Define Hollywood's Future
By Sara Libbyn
Jonathan Handel examines the ongoing tug of war between the entertainment biz and the technology industry.
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court of the Bar Court, listing attorney...
The nationwide explosion of bankruptcy filings was cataclysmic in California, where filings skyrocketed by 80 percent for the ...
Entrepreneurs are enticing elderly clients to buy life insurance policies, paying the premium and offering a lump payment, wit...