Focus (Forum & Focus)
Cooperation Is Libby's Other Get-Out-of-Jail Card
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Dan Shallman - Scooter Libby should consider cooperating with authorities if he wants to reduce his sentence...
Focus Column - By David Martinez and Vincent S. Loh - A new ruling protects against one-way interventions in class actions. ...
Placing new limits on the free-speech rights of students, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that school administrators...
LOS ANGELES - The day before his client went to trial on federal felony charges, an Alhambra lawyer received some bad news: Th...
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the country's largest telecommunications companies has triggered a free-speech battle while defending c...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has named 26 new trial-court judges to the bench, filling the first of the new positions created by...
Deals Column - By Jason Song - Two deals last week show the emergence of perhaps the most overlooked yet obvious source of sta...
Web Exclusive - A state appellate court quoted Mahatma Gandhi in endorsing West Hollywood’s right to ban the declawing of anim...
industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - LOS ANGELES - National labor and employment firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & St...
Companies are using contractual clauses that force disputes into arbitration to bust up employment class actions. It's an effe...
SACRAMENTO - A thick, blue line of opposition awaits legislation headed for the California Assembly that would reopen discipli...
Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - Steven Liu, DLA Piper's newest partner in Beijing, has observed some separation a...
Focus Column - By Steve Cooley - The Los Angles County district attorney gives a lesson on bail law, for MCLE credit. ...
Forum Column - By Lisa Peterson - A new bill before the California State Senate would greatly restrict the rights of pet-owner...
Industry Watch - By Peter B. Matuszak - LOS ANGELES - Bingham McCutchen has acquired its second prominent Japanese law firm of...
Forum Column - By Nancy Neal Yeend and Robert Terris -You can keep mediation from turning into litigation by learning how to d...
Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - SAN FRANCISCO - Woo & Associates, the San Francisco boutique run by Jeffery P....
Government
Former U.S. Attorney in S.F. Likely Will Return to Post
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - Joseph P. Russoniello is almost certain to be the White House's nominee to replace former San Francisco U.S. Atto...
A federal jury convicted prominent civil-rights attorney Stephen G. Yagman on 19 felony counts for hiding assets and gaming th...
LOS ANGELES - Top litigator Brian C. Lysaght, who helped found one of Los Angeles' prominent boutiques, has left his post at D...
Resignations, suspensions and more.
A defendant who has been arrested can post bail through a private surety bond arranged by a bail agent who usually charges 10 ...
With Honors
On the Move
In one of their largest deals this year, lawyers at the Los Angeles office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom represe...
Judges and Judiciary
Chief Justice Derails Bill on Changing State's Citation Rules
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - Score another point this week for Chief Justice Ronald M. George, who has consistently knocked down every legisla...
Editors Column - By Peter Blumberg - If I'm to be tried for murder in front of a judge I don't like, I'm entitled to a differ...
Forum Column - By Rep. Darrell Issa - Congress will need to pursue compromise in its attempt at intellectual property reform. ...
Christopher D. Burdick was approaching retirement from the San Francisco law firm that bears his family name when tragedy stru...
Focus Column - By Ken Moscaret - Insurance litigators need to be keenly aware of restrictions on their billing practices. ...