Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - Paying employee wages with stored-value "pay cards" could be legally viable. ...
Focus Column - By Diane J. Klein - Several trademark dilution issues are at play in a suit filed by the Red Hot Chili Peppers ...
Defections at Heller Ehrman continued this week when attorneys James Olson and Randall Schai relocated to Jones Day's four-yea...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral's Legal Work in Navy Prepared Him Well
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - As a young man in the U.S. Navy, Benjamin S. Seigel got his first taste of the law. His job: defend an officer a...
Amy Solomon, the newest president of Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles was preparing for life as a world-traveling...
Appellate Practice
Zoo, S.F. Seek Tiger-Attack Evidence in Discovery
By Rebecca Beyern
SAN FRANCISCO - In the face of what seems to be inevitable litigation in the wake of a Christmas Day tiger attack, San Francis...
RIVERSIDE - A state appellate court has reversed a Riverside man's murder conviction, asserting that the judge in the trial co...
Michael Villalobos has returned to the West Covina misdemeanor court where he began his career as a prosecutor - but this time...
Susan Partovi, left, Homeless Health Care Los Angeles’ primary physician, and Mark Casanova, the Skid Row clinic’s executive d...
SAN BERNARDINO - Prosecutors in San Bernardino County have dismissed charges against a Murrieta attorney who had been accused ...
First Amendment groups are applauding a decision by a federal magistrate judge to grant Amnesty International the same rights ...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - Parents should be allowed to recover if their child is victimized as a result of their sch...
Focus Column - By Peter J. Engstrom and Nancy Chung Allred - For practitioners with clients trying to enforce in California mo...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Word to the Wise: Language Is a Lawyer's Strongest Tool
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Mark Labaton - Words are among the most powerful tools for lawyers. ...
U.S. Supreme Court
Justices Tilt Against Limiting Patents in Licensing Case
By David Houstonn
Taking up a high-stakes patent case for the computer industry, the U.S. Supreme Court voiced skepticism Wednesday that a South...
Gregory L. Reyes, the former chief executive officer of Brocade Communications Systems Inc. and first person to be convicted b...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Denies Sonar Tests Off Coast
By Fiona Smith
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court on Wednesday turned away a request by the U.S. Navy to continue to conduct unfettered ...
Since being sworn in as the U.S. attorney for the nation's largest federal district in October, Thomas P. O'Brien, has taken o...
Years teaching trial advocacy and courtroom skills to law students prepared Los Angeles Judge Darrell S. Mavis for his appoint...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge, MALDEF Co-Founder Considered a Renaissance Man
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - Richard A. Ibanez, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge for two decades, and one of the founders of the Mex...
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 An...
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...