Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Tax attorney Gregory P. Broome left Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner for Wilson Sons...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca Beyer - When Matthew S. McNicholas was inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates over th...
MONTEREY PARK - Longtime children's advocate Leslie Starr Heimov has been selected by the board of directors of the Children's...
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy nabbed prominent securities litigator Jerry Marks, formerly the Los Angeles managing partn...
A prominent Oakland attorney says lending companies' hostility toward employees helped trigger the subprime mortgage crisis. ...
Like the other justices on Division Two of the San Francisco-based 1st District Court of Appeal, Justice James A. Richman is k...
Los Angeles County judges, prosecutors, emergency medical personnel and clergy will join student actors this week in a street...
On the Move
Colleagues applaud the way Judge Eugene S. Gini treats everyone with respect and dignity - which he attributes to growing up ...
San Diego Judge Patricia Garcia brings to the bench the dualities of her Mexican and American heritage and her experience as b...
A decade ago, George O'Connell prosecuted Shrimpgate, the last big political corruption scandal in the state Capitol. Today, h...
Litigation
Possible Conflict of Interest Disqualifies Lawyer in Tax Case
By Amelia Hansen
A federal judge in New York Thursday disqualified a San Francisco attorney representing a former KPMG manager in one of the na...
Employment Column - By Frances Rogers - A case coming before the California Supreme Court will determine whether the state's d...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
State Senator's Bombast Disrespectful, Threatens Separation of Powers
By Troy Senikn
Letters to the Editor - Readers weigh in on contentious state Senate hearings, partisan legal conferences and the State Bar's ...
LOS ANGELES - Richard C. Neal shuffles down the hallway of JAMS' high-rise office in downtown Los Angeles, a trace of smile on...
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury has awarded Emeryville's Wham-O $6 million, finding that rival toy maker ToyQuest of Los Angeles ...
Focus Column - By Robert Harrison - Despite the explosion of electronic commerce, the use of paper checks is at an all-time hi...
LOS ANGELES - Disney's Buena Vista Home Entertainment will have to pay $6.4 million for breaching a contract its lawyers wrot...
LOS ANGELES - A commision appointed by the state Senate recommended Thursday that trial judges report egregious examples of p...
Note to appellate lawyers: The incoming chief of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals won't be happy if you withdraw a case t...
Forum Column - By Natasha Minsker and Daniel Ballon - Though capital murder cases are matters of life and death, California ha...
Expert Witness Column - By Ken Moscaret - A former litigator describes his new life as an expert witness. ...
LOS ANGELES - Seymour Lazar, the 80-year-old former entertainment lawyer from Palm Springs who had denounced his criminal pros...
U.S. Supreme Court
Techie Justice in Action: Touting Electronic Traffic Tickets
By Laura Ernden
Some day, when you get your first traffic ticket by e-mail, you can thank Justice Ming Chin of the California Supreme Court. ...
SAN JOSE - A woman on the jury that convicted a Silicon Valley CEO of fraud in the first criminal case to come out of the back...
SAN FRANCISCO - Conservative judges will have more power over key cases at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals if a bill bef...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
It doesn't take something as blatant as a $4.1 million bribe to officials in Kazakhstan to land multinational companies in ser...
PALO ALTO - Kevin Dennis, co-chair of Goodwin Procter's burgeoning Palo Alto office, said he's had only one dull moment in the...
Focus Column - By Michael Bruce Abelson - Paying insufficient attention to ADR provisions in insurance policies can severely l...