Gordon & Rees announced the addition of three partners in the firm's San Diego office.
Judicial Profile
Even on Dusty Ball Fields of Youth, His Eye Was on the Law
By Amelia Hansen
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Orange County Superior Court Judge Joy Wiesenfeld Markman, who presides over a juvenile delinquency court, believes it's up t...
LOS ANGELES - The Hewlett-Packard boardroom leak scandal claimed its second lawyer Thursday when Ann O. Baskins, longtime gene...
Insurance
Insurer Learns It Can't Wriggle Out of Its Duty to Defend
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By Daniel Lee Jacobson The words used in the law are sometimes clear in meaning, yet confusing in sound. But n...
LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson and his ex-wife have reached a settlement in a custody battle over their two children that began...
Environmental
Proposed Procedural Changes in Asbestos Cases Raise Alarm
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - The plaintiffs' as well as the defense bar are up in arms over proposed changes to procedures in how asbestos ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediators Must Learn to Give Tough Love
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Jeff Kichaven In response to my Aug. 14 article ("What Attorneys Want in Mediators and How to Provide It"),...
Judges and Judiciary
WEB EXCLUSIVE - Judge Considers Consequences for S.F. Housing Authority
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge on Thursday discussed putting the city's Housing Authority into receivership or bankruptcy in addition...
LOS ANGELES - Families of victims of a 2005 commuter-train derailment that killed 11 people and injured more than 100 others w...
FORUM COLUMN - By K. Hollyn Hollman With religious wars raging around the globe, it seems an especially inopportune time to t...
SACRAMENTO - A management company contracted to run an Indian casino can be sued by workers for sexual harassment and gender d...
Labor/Employment
When Free Speech and the Establishment Clause Collide in the Workplace
By Eric Berkowitzn
EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Kere Tickner and Joshua Bordin-Wosk A further chapter has been written on the topic of balancing empl...
Judges and Judiciary
Federal Judge Considers Other Forms of Lethal Injections
By Laura Ernden
SAN JOSE - The federal judge scrutinizing California's lethal injection procedure explored Thursday whether a single overdose ...
SANTA ANA - A Nebraska company must pay $23.4 million to a teenage boy severely brain-damaged in an auto accident because a co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Chicago law firm Schiff Hardin will gain a West Coast presence by acquiring civil litigation boutique Morgenst...
Judges and Judiciary
Roberts Court Has Plenty of Fissile Ground to Cover
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Chapter Two of the Roberts Court begins next week when the Supreme Court returns for a new term stocked with hot-...
WASHINGTON - All the major players in the Hewlett-Packard Company boardroom leak scandal appeared before Congress Thursday, bu...
More than 750 high school students and law students in Santa Barbara will see the state Supreme Court in action at a public ou...
SANTA MONICA - As firm leaders at Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan prepare to part ways, a battle is shaping up over which...
LOS ANGELES - During opening arguments in the perjury trial of former telephone company worker Joann Wiggan, prosecutor Kevin ...
In a case described as a "bad Russian novel," a state appellate court has refused to undo the felony convictions of a Glendora...
FORUM COLUMN - The House of Representatives recently enacted internal rules to "reform" earmarking, the practice of targeting ...
A memorial service will take place Sunday for James Warren Beebe, a veteran municipal-bond specialist. ...
FOCUS COLUMN - In Bernard v Foley (2006 DJDAR 11044 (Aug. 21, 2006)), the California Supreme Court resolved a conflict between...
FORUM COLUMN - If this were a perfect world, I would change several things. One that often occurs to me when I'm perusing the ...
WASHINGTON - The combative chairman of the House Judiciary Committee marked what could be his last appearance in that role Wed...
Environmental
Result of 'Rapanos' Seen in Struggles to Define Clean Water Act
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - Aftereffects of a muddy U.S. Supreme Court decision this spring continue to ripple through the courts. ...
LOS ANGELES - State and federal agents in California have expressed concerns that today's congressional hearings could jeopard...
LOS ANGELES - On a recent Friday, attorney William Daniels was doing a site inspection for a slip-and-fall at an evangelical c...