SAN FRANCISCO - Charles Smith's dislike for Wal-Mart prompted the Georgia resident to change the Arkansas retail giant's logo ...
Judges and Judiciary
'One Day, One Trial' Opens Lawyers' Eyes About Jury Service
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Jacqueline Connor - One Day, One Trial has made enormous changes to the landscape of jury trials, more than...
Focus Column - By Martin Fern - Many lawyers continue drafting business contracts using the same stilted language that a lawye...
SANTA ANA - A memorial service will be held Wednesday for Martin B. Weinberg, a prominent supporter of theater and women's rig...
Law Practice
Capitol Lobbyist Fights to the Death for His Laboring Clients
By Jennifer Hammn
SACRAMENTO - Barry Broad is a hard-charging lobbyist who isn't the type to throw a punch at an opponent after the fight is ove...
WASHINGTON - President Bush nominated Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Philip S. Gutierrez to the U.S. District Court for the ...
LOS ANGELES - A Mexican woman who obtained her green card more than a decade ago can't be deported because she was three week...
Goodwin Procter's California dreams have become a reality. The Boston-based firm will announce today that it has lured away a...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Boils Over; Defendant's Legal Souffle Collapses
By Garry Abramsn
Column - By Garry Abrams - If super chef Wolfgang Puck wanted to create a delicious U.S. Supreme Court case, he might come up ...
VENTURA - Santa Barbara County Judge Diana R. Hall, under fire for allegedly violating judicial ethics, testified Monday she u...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state's method of charging companies to support hazardous waste ...
SAN JOSE - In a decision that could have far-reaching implications in the semiconductor memory chip industry, a federal jury a...
Firm Watch
Townsend Leaps Across the Pacific, Opening Tokyo Outpost
By William Arthur Haynes
LOS ANGELES - Townsend and Townsend and Crew, the San Francisco-based intellectual property firm, announced Monday that it has...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Bruce E. Mitchell keeps his unfinished novel in a cardboard box a...
LOS ANGELES - Forced to flee the violent political revolutions of his native Uruguay at the age of 9, Los Angeles County Supe...
Administrative/Regulatory
Force of George Proves Empowering for Judiciary
By Amelia Hansen
Athlete, adventure traveler, literature aficionado and soon-to-be grandfather, Ronald M. George believes there is more to life...
TOP NORTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - At just 24, Sonal Mehta already has worked on complex patent litigation matters for client...
TOP NORTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - Northern California law firms aren't partying quite like they did in 1999, but many partne...
Corporate attorney Stephen Schrader worked and lived in Tokyo in the early 1990s during Japan's economic boom. When he return...
Law Practice
Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame After Half-Century Career
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - It takes effort to get E. Robert Wallach to acknowledge his accomplishments during half a century career of ci...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
To Tell the Truth in Deception, First Be Aware That It's There
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - By Jeffrey Krivis and Mariam Zadeh - Although few will admit to it, there is no doubt that deception plays an a...
SAN FRANCISCO - For Wesley Skow, helping people build things is the epitome of job satisfaction. The bigger and more complicat...
TOP NORTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - Eric Newman is a lawyer and a lobbyist. That combination, he thinks, gives him an advanta...
Labor and employment litigator Natalie A. Pierce returned to her old stomping grounds when she joined Littler Mendelson as a p...
Government Contracts
Governor Names 10 Appellate and Trial Judges to State Courts
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday elevated Douglas Miller, a former Riverside County Superior Court presiding...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state agency authorized by voters to spend $3 billion in public money on controversial stem cell research wi...
An immigrant woman remains eligible to become a lawful permanent resident of the United States even though her husband died be...
LOS ANGELES - Is $28 million too much for Philip Morris USA to pay in punitive damages to the family of a dead smoker? Two 2n...
Judges and Judiciary
Court Colleagues Raise Glass of Good Humor to the Chief
By Donna Domino
The quirky side of Ronald George came to light Friday when friends and colleagues gathered to toast the 10-year anniversary of...
Judges and Judiciary
U.S. Assigns More Judges to Hear Immigration Appeals
By Sandra Hernandezn
Two weeks after the nation's top immigration judge stepped down, the U.S. Department of Justice has quietly announced more cha...