In an excerpt of her book "Exporting American Dreams," Mary L. Dudziak describes Thurgood Marshall's journeys in Kenya. - Book...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Music to a Lawyer's Ears: A New Treatise for Copyright Practitioners
By Sara Libbyn
Ron Rosen's "Music and Copyright" is a helpful treatise that explains the rocky seas of music copyright infringement cases, wr...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
For Lawyers and Politicians Alike, Regret Can Be a Valuable Thing
By Sara Libbyn
Though most professionals are loath to express regret, doing so can signal humility and a willingnress to learn, writes Dan La...
"Turnaround" is a magic word for movie producers. It's that Lazarus moment when a dead Hollywood project is given new life at ...
A U.S. district judge in Los Angeles on Thursday dashed Metrolink's hopes of transferring lawsuits stemming from September's d...
Almost 40 years after officials discovered that the toxic liquid they had been dumping in a Riverside County canyon was seepin...
In an 11th hour decision, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey has issued a new rule that finds defendants in immigration cas...
As Congress works to draft an economic stimulus plan that could cost more than $700 billion, senators on the Judiciary Committ...
A lawyer from San Diego's Casey Gerry has been reappointed to the 11-member San Diego Small Business Advisory Board.
Litigation
Veterans' Suit Seeks Care for Victims of 40-Year-Old Secret Experiments
By Rebecca Beyer
A group of vets filed suit in federal court in San Francisco against the Defense Dept, CIA and the U.S. Army, claiming that th...
Duane T. Neary moves on to family law court after tackling traffic disputes, misdemeanor trials and drug cases during his ni...
The California Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed in no mood to adopt a strict new disqualification rule that would bar attorne...
Law Practice
BERG: For Court Outreach Coordinator, Bureaucracy Is a Work of Art
By Martin Bergn
Daily Journal columnist Martin Berg writes an appreciation of the art of Camilo Cruz. By day, Cruz is a community relations ad...
Seyfarth Shaw has acquired the Irvine-based immigration law firm of Angelo A. Paparelli, a prominent lawyer in U.S. business i...
San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Teri Jackson Wednesday disqualified Robert Amparan from defending alleged MS-13 gang...
All parties in litigation should be well-informed of their rights — then do what they think is right regardless of them, write...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the 15 bills that comprised a package addressing the state's budget crisis, say...
American technology companies driven offshore by inadequate U.S. immigration policies increasingly elect "nearshoring" to Cana...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
To Achieve Change, Obama Needs to Bet on More Women
By Sara Libbyn
An Obama administration will move the whole country forward when it taps the full potential of our women, writes Linda Tarr-Wh...
Brocade Communications Systems' claim that its former chief executive officer violated the federal Racketeering Influenced and...
Litigation
Disabled Fight Sidewalk Obstacles in their Path in California Courts
By Cortney Fieldingn
After decades of fruitless letter-writing campaigns and public hearings, a Los Angeles man became lead plaintiff in an ongoing...
Poor patients who paid discounted fees to Bay Area hospitals claim the city and county of San Francisco still charge them too ...
Founding fathers knew how to go about limiting powers.
Venable has nabbed a former Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp partner to co-chair its national intellectual property group in Lo...
During eight-plus weeks of his trial, Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona's defense team offered jurors scant explanation for th...
Jamie A. Jacobs-May puts her organizational skills to work as Santa Clara County's new presiding judge. ...
Law Practice
Some See Hope in County Employee's Escape From Kaiser Arbitration
By Evan George
An apparent loophole in the binding arbitration agreement was discovered in the case of a Los Angeles County employee who sued...
California Supreme Court
High Court Weighs Football Fans' Privacy Rights Against Stadium Security
By Laura Ernden
Privacy issues took the field today as the California Supreme Court referees a dispute over the NFL’s policy of frisking fans ...
Though third-party candidates played far smaller roles than in previous elections, third parties still play a vital role in ou...
False or damaging advertising can trigger a number of insurance liability issues, writes Peter S. Selvin. - Focus Column ...