Web Exclusive - An appellate court on Friday stripped a $15 million jury verdict from a man who discovered that he was the Tas...
Focus Column - By Lisa M. Martens and Gregory M. Krakau - The Internet is changing the stakes for the age-old concept of "like...
Firm Watch
Defender for Milberg Case Joins U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A.
By Gabe Friedmann
Industry Watch - By Gabe Friedman - LOS ANGELES - Brian E. Klein, an associate at the law firm representing lawyer Melvyn I. W...
Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - LOS ANGELES - Greenberg Glusker has completed its fourth lateral hire in the last four mont...
Judges and Judiciary
Budget Committee Rejects Judicial Retirement Reform
By David Houstonn
Web Exclusive - SACRAMENTO - Any hopes for a change in the judicial retirement plan this year was firmly dashed against the ro...
A San Francisco man wrongly imprisoned for murder for 14 years and later declared innocent by a superior court judge is not en...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
For Many Mediators, Promise of Doing Well by Doing Good Remains Elusive
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Christine von Wrangel - The popularity of mediation courses belies the lack of opportunities in the field. ...
Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is showing signs of bouncing back ...
Forum Column - By Diane Klein - A law professor takes a light-hearted look at the inanity of the high court's handling of Mors...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Robert Ray Huskinson, a lawyer whose victory in a state Supreme Court case helped ...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - LOS ANGELES - Reed Smith has tapped Marsha Houston, the former bankruptcy practice head o...
A reconstituted U.S. Supreme Court with two Bush appointees left a lasting mark in just its second year, steering the high cou...
In a big blow to the three-strikes law, a divided state appellate panel has held that courts can't use prior juvenile convicti...
SAN FRANCISCO - For months, defense lawyers for former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. Chief Executive Officer Gregory Rey...
On The Move
With Honors
Following a lesson from his own mother, Commissioner Barry S. Michaelson works to protect families in his family law courtroo...
Litigator Scott C. Glovsky and his client, Maria Watanabe, are featured in Michael Moore's new documentary, “SiCKO,” which is ...
LOS ANGELES - A dentist on his second trip to trial court in a breach-of-contract case against USC finds himself before a judg...
Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - An employment lawyer provides a guide to preventing a work-force reduction from...
Forum Column - By Adam Thierer - Calls to resurrect the Fairness Doctrine ignore the debilitating effects it had on political ...
Verdicts
Seeking Change, Lawyer Finds Several Careers, Peaking at Neutral
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - In 1988, Joel Grossman was representing the Writers Guild of America, West during the union's six-month strike a...
Forum Column - By Paul Woodhull - The federal government needs to regulate radio to ensure a balanced dialogue. ...
Verdicts
Two Firms Will Settle California Energy Crisis for $66 Million
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - Half a dozen years after Californians experienced dimmed lights and power shortages as a result of a crisis in...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Justices Let Manufacturer Control Price Policy
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Explicitly overruling a century-old antitrust precedent, a divided U.S. Supreme Court held Thursday that it is no...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury ordered the nation's second-largest payroll processing firm to pay $15 ...
LOS ANGELES - A former defense attorney for Phil Spector will avoid jail for now after the California Supreme Court late Wedne...
SANTA ANA - One Mission Viejo doctor must pay $11.7 million to a man left nearly paralyzed by strokes, but another doctor owes...
Focus Column - By Dennis F. Moss - An upcoming California Supreme Court verdict will decide the future of class-action protect...
LOS ANGELES - Vitesse Semiconductors, a Camarillo-based company that discovered problems with its stock-options grants and acc...