Judicial Profile
Raised as a Scrapper, Judge Shakes Off Panel's Critique
By Pat Alston
A year into his appointment as a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge, Elia V. Pirozzi is earning praise from lawyers an...
Thousands of prisoners serving life terms will get a new shot at being released after a close California Supreme Court decisio...
Tyler Wall joined Brocade Communications Systems Inc. in 2005, in what was perhaps the company's darkest hour. ...
SAN DIEGO - Earlier this month, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders announced that the city will receive $15.5 million in new grant ...
As a juvenile court referee in Van Nuys and a published author, Leora Krygier often finds that wayward youth need a good writi...
Law Practice
Heller Ehrman Delays Start for Fall Associates Until January
By Jill Redhage
Heller Ehrman’s 54 incoming fall associates won’t start work on Oct. 13 anymore. The firm said it called its new hires Wednesd...
Litigation
No Verdict in Bratz Doll Case After Day One of Deliberations
By Jason Armstrongn
Federal court jurors went through their first day of deliberations in the damages phase of the Bratz doll fight Thursday witho...
Private eye Anthony Pellicano challenged the prosecution's conclusion Thursday that a list of sometimes bizarre phrases laced ...
Employee manuals must be consistent and harmonized with any other documentation that may possibly govern the employer-employee...
In an anxiety-inducing move in Santa Ana’s federal building, criminal defense lawyers for embattled billionaire Henry Nicholas...
Verdicts
Investment Advisers to Receive $33 Million in Bias Settlement
By Rebecca Beyer
Four California women who claimed they were being systematically passed over in favor of men for business opportunities at the...
China's largest bank shunted millions of dollars to Middle East terrorist groups, Israeli victims of terrorist attacks claimed...
The extreme differences between these types of “rivers” exasperates regulators and courts alike, which must apply the narrow p...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Jammed Riverside Court Will Compel Mediation
By Greg Katzn
The first thing Riverside County Superior Court Judge Michael B. Donner told a courtroom packed with trial-ready lawyers on a ...
U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker of San Francisco will decide whether Congress acted constitutionally in granting telecoms...
When a person is vindicated and receives compensation for unlawful incarceration, recent IRS releases suggest it may be taxabl...
Neutral Robert A. Merring played in the Rose Bowl twice, on New Year's Day 1971 and 1972. ...
San Diego's Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch has added three attorneys to its business and technology team.
Shareholder activism hits a bump in the road.
Hypocrisy is on display in calling for boxer to sign off on federal judge’s nomination
Appellate Practice
After 32 Years, Pioneering Judicial Attorney Will Retire
By Pat Broderick
Webster Burke Kinnaird, aka Buzz, has spent the last three decades reinventing the once lowly position of a court attorney. ...
The amount of greenhouse gases a company produces doesn't carry a price tag now, but it will soon. ...
Law Practice
Prominent Antitrust Litigator Leaves Heller for Sheppard
By Rebecca U. Cho
Prominent antitrust litigator Darryl Snider jumped from Heller Ehrman to the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter &...
A federal judge has halted the state's most recent Medi-Cal cuts by issuing an injunction that restores the reimbursement rate...
Despite the anticipation surrounding the wealthiest Angeleno's appearance in federal court Wednesday, Kirk Kerkorian's actual ...
The challenge for all levels of government is to figure out how to promote the development of solar energy in a responsible ma...
Law Practice
9th Circuit Strikes Ruling Against State's Air Pollution Efforts
By Fiona Smith
Web Exclusive - A federal appeals court stepped into a long-running fight between environmentalists and the state over air qua...
Law Practice
Federal Judge Says Medical Pot Raids May Violate U.S. Constitution
By Rebecca Beyer
Web Exclusive - In a first-of-its kind ruling, a federal judge in San Jose says the U.S. government's selective targeting of m...
Litigation
Mattel Seeks $1.8 Billion in War Over Bratz Doll Design
By Jason W. Armstrong
The lead attorney for Mattel urged a federal jury Wednesday to force a competitor to pay his client nearly $2 billion in damag...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
How an Unassuming Hero Cleared the Way for an Important Legal Tool
By Sara Libbyn
The sacrifices of a 1970s farmworker eventually established a procedure that has been used to protect the rights of political ...