Forum Column - By Tom Goldstein - Recent speculation that Bill Clinton could be appointed to the Supreme Court if his wife bec...
LOS ANGELES - Renowned constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky tried to persuade a federal judge Wednesday that civil rights ...
Environmental
Activists Sue U.S. to Preserve Frogs' Critical-Habitat Status
By Dennis Pfaffn
In a suit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District, in San Francisco, the Center for Biological Divers...
Firm Watch
O’Melveny’s Below-Market Bonus Disappoints Associates
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho
A bonus announcement from Los Angeles-based firm O'Melveny & Myers has caused much dismay among associates in the firm's C...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday blocked California's attempts to enforce its own standards for greenhouse g...
Entertainment & Sports
Judge Rules Against Rap Star's Family in Second Suit
By Zack Vaneyckn
LOS ANGELES - In a legal setback for the family of murdered rapper Christopher Wallace, a federal judge ruled this week in fav...
As the Bar Association of San Francisco's new president, James Donato plans to assemble a squad of lawyers to defend the judic...
Los Angeles Judge Peter Espinoza tries to understand the communities of those who come before him so that he can fashion appro...
The appellate court's ruling effectively reinstates Caterpillar Inc. as a defendant in an asbestos case. The company had been ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
One Judge's Holiday Wish List: Peace on Earth, and in the Courtroom
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - A Christmas list straight from the bench lets lawyers know exactly how to keep their judges ha...
Government
L.A. Attorney Cruises Through Hearing for Tax Post at Justice
By Dennis Pfaffn
WASHINGTON - Los Angeles attorney Nathan J. Hochman, nominated by President Bush to head the Justice Department's tax division...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - A new plan for reform in the Los Angeles Unified School District is doomed to failure if i...
Focus Column - By Brendan J. Fogarty - When little physical evidence supports property insurance claims, a question-and-answer...
SAN JOSE - Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, disqualified from a bankruptcy case for failing to disclose a conflict of interest...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 88-year-old mother of a death-row inmate has renewed hope that her son will be exonerated, now that a San ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit in Line for New Judgeship
By Dennis Pfaffn
WASHINGTON - California is in line to get a new judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals thanks to a bipartisan deal end...
LOS ANGELES - New Line Cinema and Peter Jackson announced Tuesday they have settled all litigation relating to the "Lord of th...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court Revives Religious Objections Over Blood Sample
By Amelia Hansenn
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Los Angeles made a mistake by rejecting a man's religious arguments, based on his interpret...
Judges and Judiciary
Justice Touts His Memoir, and His Message, at Chapman
By Gabe Friedmann
Not two words into his appearance at Chapman University School of Law on Monday evening, it was clear why Clarence Thomas had ...
Judge Franklin Stephenson prefers his modest courtroom in the outlying community of Manteca to an appointment in a more urban ...
Corynne McSherry is representing the plaintiff in the latest in a series of battles between advocates of free online speech an...
Judges and Judiciary
Document Dispute Forces Prison Panel to Call Time-Out
By Dennis Pfaffn
A panel of federal judges has delayed proceedings in the massive prison overcrowding case, a move that almost certainly will p...
SAN FRANCISCO - Deborah Bailey-Wells, an intellectual property lawyer who blazed trails for women during her 25-year legal car...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Howard Matz has granted class status to immigrant groups and others who said police attacked...
Focus Column - By Simon J. Frankel and Bryanne J. Schmitt - What difference does it make whether Marilyn Monroe was a resident...
LOS ANGELES - Two more insurance recovery attorneys have left Morgan, Lewis & Bockius for Reed Smith, following the depart...
Real Estate/Development
Development Veteran Will Head City’s Real Estate Practice
By Peter Matuszakn
As the new head of the real estate and economic development practice for City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, longtime Assistant Ci...
Judges and Judiciary
Riverside County Courts Will Try New Calendaring System
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - Responding to criticism of Riverside County Superior Court's procedures, the state Judicial Council announced Mond...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Monday dismissed a lawsuit against the leading bar-review course provider that claimed the compa...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
New Year's Resolutions to Ease Immigration Law Compliance
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Kirsten Schlenger - 2008 is going to bring a new approach to the enforcement of immigration laws at the work...