Those who have worked for years with Los Angeles Supervising Judge Brian Gasdia are familiar with the sound of the bass emanat...
Bingham McCutchen attorneys Joshua Safran and Nadia Costa in Walnut Creek are working to acquit Deborah Peagler under a law al...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Prime Healthcare Sues Kaiser Over Its Refusal to Reimburse
By Evan George
LOS ANGELES - One night in early 2006, a worried mother rushed through the sliding glass doors of the Sherman Oaks Hospital em...
Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - Medical-marijuana users might be able to legally use the drug, but employers aren'...
Forum Column - By Janice Kamenir-Reznik - Lawyers’ involvement in helping Darfur reflects positively on the profession. ...
Focus Column - By Jim Martin and Zareh Jaltorossian - A recent 9th Circuit case examined the procedure for challenging evidenc...
Judges and Judiciary
Attorney Drops Out of Santa Clara Judicial Race
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - There's a little more breathing room in the race for Santa Clara County's sole open judicial seat. This week, ...
LOS ANGELES - Immigration and civil rights attorneys are mounting legal challenges to last week's raid of a Van Nuys company t...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral, 82, Is Leader of Evolving ADR Trends
By Alexa Hylandn
LOS ANGELES - Sitting in his Century City office, Gerald F. Phillips flips through a black binder filled with articles detaili...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
The Public Is Misguided About the Right to Bear Arms
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Roberto Javier Frisancho - The widely held belief that the Second Amendment was adopted to provide an indivi...
SANTA ANA - Orange County has settled a lawsuit growing out of the first killing in a county jail in 20 years. Left unexplaine...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court just made it tougher for plaintiffs' attorneys to bring shareholder derivative la...
9th Curcuit Senior Judge John T. Noonan Jr. has accused the immigration courts of trying to shield adverse decisions in asylum...
WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives took a step closer to a constitutional showdown with the White House Thursday over t...
Large Firms
Congress Probes Deportation of Disabled U.S. Citizen
By Alexia Garamfalvin
Outrage over the deportation to Mexico last year of a developmentally disabled U.S. citizen from Los Angeles reached Washingto...
Judges and Judiciary
Joseph Tyree Sneed III 1920-2008: 9th Circuit Senior Judge Was Conservative Force on Bench
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Senior Judge Joseph Tyree Sneed III, who served on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals since President Nixon...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Good Works Will Restore Lawyers' Tarnished Reputations
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By K.C. Victor - Lawyers can help the profession reclaim its prestige by devoting themselves to good causes. ...
Focus Column - By William F. Sullivan, Peter M. Stone and D. Scott Carlton - A recent Supreme Court decision did away with 'sc...
Presiding over an isolated courthouse in Joshua Tree gives Judge Rod Cortez the opportunity to hear a wide variety of cases. ...
Public Interest
Tommy Breslin 1932-2007: Public Defender Known as Dedicated, Compassionate
By Zack Vaneyckn
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services are planned this spring following the death of veteran public defender Tommy Breslin. Breslin,...
Forum Column - By Chris Hoffman - Employers should discourage their employees from having intimate relationships with co-worke...
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles-based talent management company Marathon Entertainment filed a petition Wednesday with the state Sup...
SANTA ANA - Attorneys for Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona and his wife let loose a double-barreled attack on the prosecution...
When actor Kirk Douglas applied to get his famous name trademarked 50 years after his storied career began, he just wanted to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Trying to right itself from an international stolen antiquities scandal and embarrassing governance shortcomin...
Morrison & Foerster's last corporate partner based in its Orange County office has moved to Bingham McCutchen. MoFo chairm...
SAN FRANCISCO - After a seven-year court battle over its effort to get cleaner-burning vehicle fleets on Southern California's...
Judges and Judiciary
In Rare Move, Attorney Runs for Two San Diego County Seats
By Pat Broderick
SAN DIEGO — A local lawyer has filed to run for two judicial seats, a rare political maneuver that is adding some color to th...
LOS ANGELES - Corporate attorney Jai Pathak, who helped develop Jones Day's India practice and headed its Singapore office, ha...
LOS ANGELES - After impassioned arguments on both sides, the American Bar Association has endorsed a pair of recommendations a...