Forum Column - By Regina Diehl - California is abandoning its responsibility to the state's foster children, providing their c...
Dole Food Co. executives and employees believed strongly that the pesticide they were using in Nicaragua was not a risk to ban...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Federal Shield Law for Journalists Is Well-Intentioned but Shouldn't Protect Political Stunts
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - Creating legal protections for the media can be a valuable asset for exposing otherwise-...
Duane Morris trial attorneys have successfully defended a Cleveland, Ohio-based manufacturer of portable heaters against claim...
SAN FRANCISCO - Rex R. Perschbacher will step down next year as dean of UC Davis School of Law, the school announced Thursday....
Cloumn - By Peter Blumberg - Jerry Brown's decades as an opponent of the death penalty didn't stop him from getting elected at...
LOS ANGELES - After months of inaction in the giant backdating shareholder class action against Broadcom, the 9th U.S. Circui...
Firm Watch
Denver, Santa Barbara Firms Mingle Water Rights Expertise
By Rebecca U. Cho
Denver-based Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck announced plans Thursday to merge with Hatch & Parent, a prominent water-righ...
Employment Column - By Alisa M. Chevalier and Mani Sheik - A forthcoming decision from the California Supreme Court will decid...
Even documents that don't bear an attorney's name can be protected by attorney-client privilege, a state appellate court ruled...
Focus Column - By Christopher Van Gundy and Sharlyn Walling Dreyfus - New federal rules pertaining to electronic discovery are...
ADR Column - By Max Factor III - California's standards for what kinds of information can and cannot be kept confidential afte...
Two years after launching a program to mediate citizens' complaints of officer misconduct, Pasadena Police Chief Bernard K. Me...
SACRAMENTO - Howard Dickstein, a prominent California tribal lawyer, found few friends this week in the legal community willin...
The son of a judge in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas is counsel on the plaintiff’s side in 54 of the Eastern...
SACRAMENTO - A political campaign to overturn four lucrative Indian gaming compacts will first have to survive a court challen...
Los Angeles litigator Louis R. 'Skip' Miller makes a fresh start by launching a new law firm, and he adds his sons as associat...
SACRAMENTO - In recent weeks, the city of Long Beach has proposed hiring an outside firm to enforce parking restrictions on pu...
Web Exclusive - The heated battle over four Indian gaming compacts has moved to court. ...
Forum Column - By Steven Hoch and Brad Herrema - California's new policy on recycling water has laudable intensions, but its v...
Focus Column - By Ronald P. Slates - Commercial debts can be collected quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively with a thorou...
An attorney for 12 Nicaraguan men who worked chopping leaves on banana plantations in their country said his clients were robb...
Vincent C. Page, a longtime Los Angeles tax attorney who represented some of the Southland's prominent businesses and municipa...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
California's Misguided Crusade Against Deadbeat Dads Casts Too Broad a Net
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The Golden State's courts have come to a surprising conclusion: You need not be a child's ...
Law Practice
One Law Firm Builds Its Excellence Around a Female Majority
By Rebecca U. Cho
Attorneys at the San Diego-based Brown Law Group have one less thing to worry about than most other law firms - no one has to ...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. cyclist Floyd Landis has filed an appeal of the decision that in September cost him the 2006 Tour de France...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court is starting its new term the way it finished the last one: deeply divided. ...
U.S. Supreme Court
State High Court Takes Case on Frisking of Ticket Holders
By Laura Ernden
Web Exclusive - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to review a case challenging the San Francisco 49ers' policy ...
Law Practice
Utah Law That Threatened Keyword Advertising Loses Its Punch
By David Houstonn
SAN JOSE - Google Inc. and other search engines can rest easy about Utah's new law that legal observers say would have effecti...
A bruising political battle is developing in Washington over whether Congress should grant legal immunity to the telecommunica...