Government
Senators From Both Parties Object to Disparity in Cocaine Sentencing
By Alexia Garamfalvin
WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of senators is stepping up efforts to reduce the 100-1 sentencing ratio between crack and powd...
LOS ANGELES - Indicted attorney Terry Christensen fired back at federal prosecutors in court papers Monday, claiming they stru...
SANTA ANA — Southern California’s first Vietnamese-born judge will be the only sitting Orange County judge facing an election ...
Before plaintiffs' lawyer William S. Lerach received a two-year prison sentence Monday, his lawyers compiled an impressive col...
Forum Column - By Jean Hardisty - The Bush administration’s marriage-promotion programs are based on false logic and harm the ...
Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - The issue of whether a party may be estopped from asserting mediation confidentiality ...
Judges and Judiciary
Most-Sought-After Riverside Seat Draws Four Candidates
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - Four candidates are challenging a Riverside County Superior Court judge for the county's most-sought-after judicia...
Intellectual Property
Former Executive Is Defiant in Patent Lawsuit
By Alexia Garamfalvin
SAN JOSE - A former Rambus Inc. executive who attended meetings of an organization that set standards for memory chips was def...
Administrative/Regulatory
Before He Can Sue the Government, Man Needs Rare Certificate
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - Richard Finley had a dream of opening 20 legal bookstores across the nation. Instead, at the age of 67, he went t...
LOS ANGELES - The upcoming June 3 judicial elections will feature a spoons-playing musician/attorney pitted against a sitting ...
A lifelong athlete, Alameda Judge Sandra K. Bean thrives in the competitive legal world. ...
A federal judge sentenced fallen class-action lawyer William S. Lerach on Monday to the maximum, 24 months, for what he called...
U.S. Supreme Court
S.F. Restaurant Group Seeks Stay of Health Care Coverage
By Evan George
A San Francisco Bay-area restaurant association has filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Panel Orders Protesters to Pay Interest on Punitives
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Planned Parenthood in Oregon won another round in federal appellate court Monday in its lengthy campaign again...
Firm Watch
Christensen Glaser Establishes Las Vegas Real Estate Practice
By Rebecca U. Cho
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles litigation powerhouse Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro has opened a Las Vegas o...
Focus Column - By David A. Gerber - Two different pieces of copyright legislation, separated by nearly 70 years, produced oppo...
SACRAMENTO - Frustrated by their failure to get permanent disability benefits boosted for injured workers, lawyers are seeking...
Government
Chinese Spying in U.S. Is Rising, Justice Department Says
By Alexia Garamfalvin
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department chose to highlight Monday what it says is an increase in the Chinese government's spying e...
Education
Donations of $5.5 Million Put Law Think Tank Closer to Goal
By Alexa Hylandn
LOS ANGELES - The Williams Institute, a research center at UCLA Law School, has received $5.5 million in new gifts to support ...
U.S. Supreme Court
Justices Will Decide on Punitives in Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
By David Houstonn
WASHINGTON - When the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground off the coast of Alaska in March 1989, the Berlin Wall had not falle...
Jinshu "John" Zhang, who was actively involved in developing Greenberg Traurig's China practice and presence, has left the fir...
The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled that consumers can sue under state consumer-protection laws as long as the regu...
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lynn Olson, who practiced law for four years in the late 1980s and early 1990s before ...
Forum Column - By Lisa Spiegel - Congress should ease limits on H-1B visas to allow more educated professionals to work in the...
Women's Professional Soccer will kick off its first games in April 2009, and fans will have attorney Vicki Veenker to thank. ...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Arbitration Panel Finds Kaiser Liable in Diabetic's 2005 Death
By Evan George
LOS ANGELES - An arbitration panel retained by Kaiser Permanente has awarded the family of a 72-year-old patient $318,944 in a...
Government
Tort-Reformers' Bill Would Let Court Strike Part of Lawsuit as Frivolous
By David Houstonn
Web Exclusive - A statewide tort reform group has introduced legislation that would allow courts to strike a portion of a laws...
Forum Column - By John T. Hansen - The push for voter ID laws is merely a Republican effort to suppress minority voters likely...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Bybee Won’t Recuse Himself in Fajitagate Excessive-Force Case
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal appellate Judge Jay S. Bybee has denied a plaintiffs' motion to recuse himself from hearing an excessi...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Katten Muchin Rosenman bulked up its securities litigation group with the hiring of Helen...