SAN FRANCISCO - With one appointment to the 1st District Court of Appeal pending, the governor's office now has a second vacan...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Reform Needed in California's Death-Penalty Administration
By Sara Libbyn
Letter to the Editor - Fundamental changes need to be made addressing the state's overburdened system of death penalty adminis...
LOS ANGELES - Steve Cooley got a $56,000 raise Tuesday, making him the highest-paid district attorney in the state. The Los A...
Focus Column - By Barry Zalma - Several rulings indicate that insurance is considered neither a good nor a service under the l...
Forum Column - By Elaine Elinson - Today's female politicians can thank a little-known Jewish suffragette from San Francisco f...
A former California Assemblyman and partner at Mayer Brown has been appointed by Speaker Fabian Nunez to the California Transp...
Verdicts
Environmental Groups File Suit Over Water Desalination Plant
By Pat Broderickn
SAN DIEGO - Two environmental groups have sued the state Coastal Commission, claiming its conditional approval of a water desa...
Judges and Judiciary
Senators Hope to Ban Judges From Educational Junkets
By David Houstonn
Two U.S. senators are trying to make a proposed pay increase for the federal judiciary more palatable to Congress by inserting...
WASHINGTON - The business community won a big legal victory over investors Tuesday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that shar...
Corporate
Trial to Start in Bay Guardian’s Suit Over Rival’s Ad Costs
By Rebecca Beyer
Jury selection is set to begin Thursday in Bruce B. Brugmann's suit on behalf of his San Francisco Bay Guardian against the SF...
Longtime district attorney Robert J. Lemkau hit the books to prepare for his new role: presiding over civil commitment cas...
The difficult nature of trying cases in what some view as the Wild West of Internet advertising became apparent in a dispute b...
Focus Column - By Leonard S. Levy - Preparing clients before entering into mediation is key to a successful outcome. ...
Sidestepping an explosive health care issue, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a case that asked whether ter...
LOS ANGELES - A prominent Encino lawyer recently joined the city's Board of Water and Power Commissioners, which oversees the ...
U.S. Supreme Court
Settling Suit, Wal-Mart Dodges Decision in Disabilities Case
By Martin Bergn
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dismissed an important employment-law case involving Wal-Mart after the company and the plain...
The Supreme Court expressed little sympathy for "Judge Alex" Ferrer in a fee dispute between the television jurist and his for...
SANTA ANA - Indicted Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona stepped down Monday primarily to keep mega-firm Jones Day on his defens...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Robert C. Bonner, former commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection under President...
LOS ANGELES - After eight years at the helm of Loyola Law School, Dean David W. Burcham has accepted a promotion to provost of...
LOS ANGELES - University of Southern California law professor and Fox News commentator Susan Estrich joined litigation powerho...
Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - Congress should move forward with plans to prohibit judges from accepting ethically que...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state-court system is losing a key lobbyist at the same time it is bracing for big budget cuts in Sacramen...
Firm Watch
Orrick Hire Bolsters Intellectual Property Practice in L.A.
By Rebecca U. Cho
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe snagged Mark P. Wine, the former co-chair of McDermott...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Keep Away: Outside Investment in Law Firms Is Terrible Idea
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Kurt Melchior - Allowing outside capital investment in law firms is a bad idea. ...
Focus Column - By Andy Gillin and Ralph L. Jacobson - Anyone considering filing a wrongful-death claim should be aware of the ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Panel Says No to Probes of NASA Workers' Sex Lives
By John Roemer
New intrusive background checks of NASA scientists' sex lives and other intimate issues have gotten three thumbs down from a 9...
Industry Watch - By Anat Rubin - Longtime public interest attorney Paula Pearlman has been named executive director of the Lo...
Administrative/Regulatory
TV Commentator's SEC Trial Draws to an End
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - In the months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a small Van Nuys telemarketing company run by two Saudi Ara...