One of the nation's leading intellectual property firms says one of its veteran lawyers committed a "stunning" betrayal by usi...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley received this year's Humane Law Enforcement Award from the Humane Society and the...
Law Practice
Chief Public Defender to Serve Sixth Term in Northern District
By Laura Ernden
SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Portman has been reappointed to a sixth four-year term as federal public defender for the Northern Distr...
Forum Column - By Thomas W. Casparian - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to veto a bill that would have made it harder fo...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Clean Water Act Anniversary an Opportunity for Environmental Leadership
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Linda Sheehan - Three and one-half decades after one of the most dramatic steps toward federal environmental...
LOS ANGELES - The county counsel's office has made strides toward improving its troubled litigation cost management regime but...
Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey assured senators Wednesday he would not rule out authorizing the Justice Departmen...
Litigation
Navy Boiler Worker Awarded $35 Million for Asbestos Exposure
By Martin Bergn
A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury has awarded a retired U.S. Navy boiler tender with an asbestos-related illness $35.1 ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two months ago, U.S. District Judge William Alsup gave prosecutors "one last chance" to persuade him to go ahe...
Lawrence A. Sullivan, a Southwestern University School of Law professor emeritus and an internationally recognized authority o...
LOS ANGELES - An effort to recall Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss ended after organizers announced they lacked the mini...
Judge Jac A. Crawford must make the difficult decisions about when to release inmates with mental health problems. ...
Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey recently picked an obscenity case as one of the 10 most important he litigated dur...
Labor/Employment
After Heated Senate Hearing, Interpreters Return to Work
By Jim Adamekn
LOS ANGELES - Barring any last-minute legal delays, Los Angeles County Superior Court interpreters are expected to go back on ...
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside judge has tossed out eight felony cases and a misdemeanor over the past two days because of huge casel...
Litigation
Orange County Gives Its Public Attorneys Raises in Three Steps
By Martin Bergn
SANTA ANA - Prosecutors, public defenders and county counsel in Orange County will get a raise soon that will keep them at the...
LOS ANGELES - In what experts called a rare win for prosecutors, a federal jury in Los Angeles has convicted three Chino priso...
Forum Column - By Sharma Hammond and Mike Hethmon - A recent case in San Diego County underscores a key point in the debate o...
Two recent decisions illustrate the force of the "implied covenant" as a cause of action. ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles gem trader avoided having to return $2.6 million worth of precious stones that several New York an...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Tuesday sanctioned a Los Angeles attorney and two out-of-state lawyers, citing their "unreason...
One of the most successful trial lawyers in legal fights with Merck & Co. over the effects of the drug Vioxx has expanded ...
None of the judges being considered for the 2nd District Court of Appeal is a minority, raising new concerns among critics of ...
RIVERSIDE - In a case watched by cities across California, a state appellate panel has decided Riverside had legal standing to...
Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit Panel Removes Real From Trademark Case
By John Roemer
The latest in a long history of challenges to a veteran Los Angeles federal judge’s temperament and neutrality led Monday to h...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors crossed off another defendant from the criminal kickback case against class-action firm Milb...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Supreme Court Decision Leaves State Secrets Doctrine in Dire Need of Reform
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Sharon Bradford Franklin - A German citizen who claims that he was abducted and tortured by the U.S. governm...
Litigation
Attorney-Client Privilege Stymies Qualcomm Jurist and Lawyers
By Martin Bergn
SAN DIEGO - The federal magistrate judge considering sanctioning Qualcomm's former counsel for their roles in concealing a mas...
Judges and Judiciary
Popular S.F. Judge Retiring With Plans to Relax
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - In early November, San Francisco County Superior Court Judge John J. Conway will give himself a birthday presi...
Focus Column - By David B. Ritchie and Suvashis Bhattacharya - Nov. 1 marks the beginning of a spate of new patent rules. Navi...