Law Practice
Chevron Employee Awarded $5.5 Million for Retaliation Firing
By David Houstonn
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury on Monday held Chevron Corp. liable for illegally retaliating against and firing a female engin...
Focus Column - By Carlton A. Varner - A recent 9th Circuit ruling changes how bundling multiple products for a discount is vie...
The State Bar has placed a Yolo County civil litigator on a year of probation for letting a death penalty appeal drag on for m...
Forum Column - By Maxwell M. Blecher and David W. Kesselman - Major media companies' attempts to keep consumers from being abl...
SANTA ANA - A federal judge won't let law firm Irell & Manella out of a $150 million malpractice suit just yet, but he may...
LOS ANGELES - Peter Gerber thought his kidney transplant would give him a new lease on life. But after the successful transpla...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Justices Reject Challenge to Actress's Ownership of Painting
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge by heirs of a German-Jewish art collector who were trying t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Wang Xiaoning's days drag on in Beijing's Municipal Prison No. 2, where his lawyers say he goes for weeks, som...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has offered contradictory responses when asked for the identities of people he relies on to help hi...
WASHINGTON - Extending the long-running legal battle over the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, the U.S. Supreme Court announced Mo...
After a five-year effort, a Los Angeles lawyer has reached a settlement with the state that gives people who appear on a forme...
Judge Sandra L. McLean, a onetime Army nurse, thinks treatment for drug addiction is the surest way to rehabilitate criminals....
John Danforth is leaving the legal team at Rambus Inc. after winning some big patent litigation battles and charting strategy ...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Arter & Hadden was saved from a legal-malpractice claim in September in a significant...
Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - The Century City office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis has entered into ...
Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker associate James W. Gilliam Jr. has won Loyola Law S...
Industry Watch - By Don J. DeBenedictis - The downturn in the residential real estate market has produced a silver lining for ...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey's confirmation hearings before the Senate don't aug...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Minority Voting Rights in California Hinge on Structural Reforms
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Robert Rubin - The Supreme Court's decision not to hear an appeal by the city of Modesto after lower courts ...
Focus Column - By Callan Carter - The Pension Protection Act of 2006 has brought major changes to the world of defined-contrib...
Industry Watch - By Devan McClaine - McDermott Will & Emery announced the addition of two new partners, including Kyle Gus...
Industry Watch - By Devan McClaine - Brian Henri, former Fry's Electronics Inc. in-house counsel, has joined Schiff Hardin's S...
SAN FRANCISCO - People so fragile that a court must appoint someone to look after them and their finances deserve an attorney,...
Malibu courthouse will reopen today after a weeklong closure because of the nearby wildfire, Los Angeles County Superior Court...
Labor/Employment
New Law Loosening Campaign Limits Raises Opponents' Ire
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - A showdown is looming over a new state law designed to undo some local campaign finance limits on political parti...
Ideological differences notwithstanding, the four lawyers who make up Pillsbury Winthrop's political law group do agree on som...
SAN FRANCISCO - For lawyers, brand loyalty can be a simple matter of switching jobs. As former chief intellectual property cou...
A former football standout, Richard S. Whitney accomplished his goal of becoming a judge on his third attempt. ...
On the Move
An associate at O'Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles has helped save the home of one of the victims of a massive escrow-fraud ...