LOS ANGELES - KLA Tencor recently announced a replacement for the general counsel who left under a cloud of controversy in Oct...
Government
Prison Health Care Receiver Axes Administration Provider
By Anne Marie Ruff
A company that has provided medical-administration services for two state prisons in Southern California since September was t...
Judges and Judiciary
Referee Brought Innovation to Juvenile-Dependency Court
By Pat Alston
LOS ANGELES - Julius Yale Libow, a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court senior referee who was instrumental in introducin...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors will not refile murder charges against a man whose conviction 22 years ago was tossed out in Februar...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Laurie L. Levenson and Emil Petrossian - Post-hypnotic testimony remains controversial. Admissibility often ...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Vioxx Strategy Unfolds Slowly, and It Seems to Merck's Advantage
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - Merck heads into its fourth California Vioxx liability trial this week with a remarkable record. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - California and other states are feeling ripple effects from last week's watershed ruling on global warming by ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lori A. Schechter, Morrison & Foerster's outgoing firmwide chair of litigation, might finally get some sle...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton has bolstered and diversified its reputable San Francisco real-estate pr...
Santa Barbara County Superior Court Commissioner John F. McGregor takes a genuine interest in helping to turn around young liv...
Suspensions and Probations
On the Move
FRESNO - For most people settled into their careers, the road not taken has long since vanished from the rear-view mirror. For...
Joseph 'Rick' Distaso, the man who put away Scott Peterson, prefers his quiet new life on the bench. ...
FULLERTON - It's 10:45 on a Tuesday morning - a day much like any other in Department 3 of the North Justice Center. ...
Former train engineer Bernard Knapp is the new legal adviser to the Commission on Judicial Performance. It's a job "couldn't s...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge Thursday agreed to let plaintiffs in a class action against Blue Cross obtain information ab...
On March 28, 2002, Thomas McMahon was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Less than two months later, he was dead. ...
Employment Column - D. Gregory Valenza and Matthew J. Norfleet - Employers who want to implement alternatives to the tradition...
LOS ANGELES - Students at the UC Davis School of Law will hold their annual King Hall Prison Law Symposium on Saturday, focusi...
LOS ANGELES - The widow and children of a man who was killed after being run over by a backhoe are not entitled to damages fro...
Leonard S. Levy is not a guy you'd want sitting across from you at a poker table. It's the last hour of a recent half-day medi...
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the remaining copyright infringement cases against Napster's financial backers was resolved last week a...
Forum Column - Julia Harumi Mass, Ranjana Natarajan and Cecillia D. Wang - According to the ACLU, a masterpiece of bureaucrati...
Focus Column - Kimberly A. Kralowec - The pre-certification rights of class representatives are significant but not unlimited....
SAN JOSE - California cities and counties cannot hire outside law firms to pursue public-nuisance claims on a contingency basi...
LOS ANGELES - Stergios "Terry" Theologides is no stranger to the spotlight. For the past decade, he has vigorously defended hi...
Disclosing a family's dirty laundry in court can't be grounds for a new lawsuit, the California Supreme Court held Thursday in...
The United States patent system is the envy of the world. But we must work to keep it that way to remain globally competitive....
Based on activity afoot in Congress, as well as federal circuit court rulings and increased U.S. Supreme Court activity, sever...