LOS ANGELES - A challenge to a Justice Department policy used to gain the cooperation of companies under white-collar criminal...
LOS ANGELES - A former Studio City attorney was charged Monday with bilking $1.4 million from the trust funds of two clients w...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court opened its 2006 term on Monday by rejecting nearly 1,900 appeals that had piled up over the sum...
Judges and Judiciary
Everything You Need to Know About the State Bar Court and Then Some
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Barbara W. Ravitz - When the California Supreme Court first appointed me to its Applicant Evaluation and Nom...
Zoning, Planning and Use
New City Squares Off Against Santa Barbara County Over Land Use
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court will consider Tuesday how much power a newly incorporated city has to block a hou...
Immigration
Court to Review Drug Provision of 1996 Immigration Reform
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - For Avinesh Naidu the hardest part of each day comes early, just after the sun rises over the Mira Loma Detentio...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Former State Bar President Shallenberger Is Found Dead
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - Garvin F. Shallenberger, former president of the State Bar of California and the Orange County Bar Association a...
SACRAMENTO - Former California Attorney General John Van de Kamp said Monday that he believes Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger misun...
Corporate
Is the Los Angeles Times in Play or Is Its Chicago Parent on Block?
By Rick Kennedyn
COLUMN - It was showdown week in the media industry. A stand-off between management and ownership at the Los Angeles Times gav...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco County Superior Court judge has refused to change his mind against requiring canned tuna maker...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Franklin E. Bondonno intently scanned the contents of the folder on his des...
Entertainment & Sports
If You Can Negotiate in Tinseltown, You Can Do It Anywhere
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By William J. Rose - Lawyers negotiate. It's how we get our clients what they want and how we persuade them to ...
SANTA ANA - Longtime angler Mark Bolanos had always heard the fishing was good at Canyon Lake. So one beautiful day in August,...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Friday to explicitly outlaw "pretexting," the practice of obtaining tel...
FORUM COLUMN - By Andrew R. Wiener By enacting Civil Code Section 1714, the Legislature intended that any person giving alcoho...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday appointed two female and two male prosecutors to Superior Court judgeships in three Calif...
Firm Watch
Bryan Cave Loses Four Partners, Welcomes Franchise Law Group
By Robert Iafolla
LOS ANGELES - One arrival and another departure in the same week proved that the door at Bryan Cave's Santa Monica office goes...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Sets Limits on Uniformed S.F. Police Officers Attending Trial
By Dennis Opatrnyn
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has ruled that no more than five uniformed police officers at a time can attend the tria...
SAN BERNARDINO - Ben Gonzales, a prosecutor whose filing of murder charges against a man who confessed to killing a girl as a ...
LOS ANGELES - Charles C. Pak, who was one of the first lawyers in Kirkland & Ellis's corporate practice group in Los Angel...
Appellate Practice
9th Circuit Takes Broad View of Employee Noncompetes
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN By Anthony J. Oncidi and Benjamin Davidson In a significant new opinion regarding the ever-evolving law governin...
LOS ANGELES - With two more partners, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo continues to grow its new San Diego office. ...
LOS ANGELES - A group of dependency court lawyers has sued state court administrators seeking to void a contract that goes int...
FORUM COLUMN - By Sheila Neville and Ana Storey On July 14th in Pomona, an attorney sitting as a Los Angeles Superior Court j...
SACRAMENTO - The governor has signed a bill that would transfer regulation of unaccredited law schools and correspondence law ...
Judges and Judiciary
Former Prosecutor Sues Sheppard Mullin Over Retainer Deal
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - A former county prosecutor is suing Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, claiming current and former partner...
SAN FRANCISCO - As Dateline NBC prepared to air the newest installment of its popular show "To Catch a Predator" on Friday nig...
WASHINGTON - Federal court rulings in patent disputes are reversed on appeal at a startlingly high rate - about 30 percent. ...
Here's one way for a divorce attorney to get a favorable divorce settlement for a client: pose as the opposing counsel and fil...
The wheels of justice grind slowly in Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Peter Spinetta's courtroom, but attorneys don't...