Young attorneys in the Los Angeles office of Arnold & Porter are gaining valuable trial experience through a unique progra...
SACRAMENTO - Scott Thorpe, a 35-year veteran of the California attorney general's office, has been named chief executive offic...
Focus Column - By Bryan W. Wenter - The California Supreme Court recently put the brakes on a case that could have fundamental...
Forum Column - By Glenn C. Smith - The Supreme Court could have avoided the sloppy free-speech jurisprudence of Morse v. Fr...
California can't borrow money to meet its ever-growing obligation to public-employee retirees without first seeking voter appr...
WASHINGTON - The two prosecutors favored to be the new U.S. attorneys in Los Angeles and San Francisco likely will face smooth...
Forty years before William Ayres was accused of molesting boys, the prominent San Mateo County child psychiatrist roiled the ...
LOS ANGELES - A child who suffered severe brain damage and motor impairment as a result of untreated jaundice was awarded $96....
LOS ANGELES - Talk about jumping out of a plane without a parachute. Virgin America company was grounded in late 2006. The fle...
Forum Column - By Paul S. Weiland - The recent ruling in U.S. v. Atlantic Research clarifies the legal obligations of p...
San Mateo County Superior Court Judge H. James Ellis found his way to the bench through the jungles of Vietnam. ...
In a roundtable session, Michael V. Gisser, of Skadden Arps, Stephen D. Blevit, of Sidley Austin, and David M. Hernand, of Lat...
Corporate
Lawyer's Testimony Implicates Former Brocade Chief Executive
By Craig Anderson
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory Reyes admitted knowing the accounting implications of granti...
Litigation
No Joke: Judge Won't Issue Injunction Banning Jack in the Box Ad
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - Having a bubble-headed corporate spokes-clown laugh uproariously at you on national television is bad enough. But ...
LOS ANGELES - Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps will expand its Southern California real estate practice this summer when ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Bush Administration's Position on Stem Cells Leads to Unnecessary Suffering
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The president's stubborness on vital medical research is needlessly keeping millions of Am...
LOS ANGELES - Noted legal ethicist and former Los Angeles County deputy district attorney Rod Leonard died Friday. He was 63. ...
Forum Column - By Linda F. Atcherley - Changes to California's workers' compensation laws have led to disability payments bein...
SACRAMENTO - Peace officers in Los Angeles and several other major cities in California appear to have blocked a bill that wou...
Focus Column - By Gary A. Starre and Harold J. Cohn - Preparation is key when dealing with the twin traumas of divorce and ins...
Judges and Judiciary
Joint Budget Panel Rejects Judicial-Retirement Reform
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - A joint Assembly and Senate budget committee has rejected an effort to approve a retirement package for some judg...
LOS ANGELES - California-based Townsend and Townsend and Crew is taking its intellectual property capabilities east. It announ...
Nearly three decades after they helped to end some sexist practices in the airline industry, former flight attendants Gail Bra...
California Supreme Court
Judge Who Supports Logging Attacks Senior Colleagues
By Laura Ernden
One of the newest judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lashed out at his senior colleagues Monday, blaming judges f...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Is the Champion of Reversals
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court considered 21 decisions from the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals during i...
Judge Brian Aronson is a steadying force in the tumultuous world of family law and juvenile court. ...
Ed Corey Jr. and Kelly Sutter, estate attorneys in Sacramento, have found a growing practice helping the elderly recover asset...
LOS ANGELES - Lauded by some as bold and innovative, Howrey's plan to abandon the industry standard lockstep pay scale for ass...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - LOS ANGELES - Greenberg Traurig continues to expand its Orange County office with the add...
Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - Three Davis attorneys are among nearly two dozen people appointed by Gov. A...