LOS ANGELES - Question: What word describes an attorney who doesn't chase ambulances? Answer: Retired. ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles U.S. Attorney Debra Wong Yang sent a chill through her troops at a meeting a few weeks ago, describi...
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has elected partner Stephen Mansfield to its management committee. Mansfield is partner-in-...
TOP NORTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - As the consolidation trend continues to produce full-service global firms with 1,000-plus ...
LOS ANGELES - If an experiment before a Los Angeles Superior Court judge catches on, some attorneys may be spared the agony of...
SACRAMENTO - A California Assemblymember changed a bill this week to make it easier for litigants to force judges to seal thei...
Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - In early February, I made the not-so-bold prediction in this publication that, after a one-ye...
Administrative/Regulatory
Should Discovery Rules on Notes and Drafts Change?
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - Barbara Luna can calculate the monetary impact for just about anything: how insider trading would effect a stock...
Focus Column - Laurie L. Levenson - Attorneys are sworn to keep their clients' communications confidential. In fact, an attorn...
Labor/Employment
In Addressing Sexual Harassment, Employers Walk Liability Tightrope
By Amy Kalinn
Employment Column - By Mary C. Dollarhide - It is a tough time for employers facing employee complaints about sexual harassmen...
LOS ANGELES - H. Lee Sarokin holds two Ivy League degrees and specialized for a quarter of a century in complex business litig...
SAN DIEGO - A jury has awarded $7.5 million to a former employee of one of the nation's largest auto parts and accessories ret...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurors Should Know They Can Get Readbacks of Testimony
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Patricia L. Glaser - I believe in the jury system. I have tried numerous civil cases before both state and f...
Judges and Judiciary
No Jurors, No Justice; It Really Is Quite That Simple
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Alex Ricciardulli - One of my first assignments as a new judge was to greet new jurors that had just arrived...
LOS ANGELES - A Highland Park man, whose murder conviction was tossed out by the state appellate court, has moved a step close...
SAN JOSE - A 6th District Court of Appeal panel appeared dubious of Apple Computer's demand to subpoena a news site's e-mail s...
Constitutional Law
Panel Denies Student the Right to Wear an Anti-Gay T-Shirt
By Leslie Simmonsn
A San Diego student has no First Amendment right to wear an anti-gay T-shirt at his public high school, a split federal appeal...
Law Practice
Whistle-Blower Protection Depends on Who Hears Whistle
By Tamadhur Alaqeeln
LOS ANGELES - Stephen Heller, a temporary worker for Jones Day in Los Angeles, was alarmed by what he heard on an audiotape he...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a sexual harassment suit against a television studio filed by a...
RIVERSIDE - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday elevated Douglas Miller, a former Riverside County Superior Court presiding...
Judges and Judiciary
Lawyer Says Retired Judge's Title Shouldn't Be in Ballot Pamphlet
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired San Francisco Superior Court Judge Lillian Sing shouldn't be allowed to use the title "judge" in ballo...
SANTA ANA - The middle-aged woman needed to escape her gambling, jail-bird husband, but she spoke only Vietnamese, and the par...
L.A. Judges Vote in New Commissioners -- Appeals Court Justice Will Join ADR Group
LOS ANGELES - Brad D. Brian's friends and adversaries agree he is not afraid to get his hands dirty in the service of a case o...
SAN DIEGO - Neptune Hospitality Advisors arranged $49.05 million in senior financing for a 672-room Pinnacle Hotels USA Portfo...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Firms Enjoy Upswing in First-Quarter M&A Deals
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
LOS ANGELES - When it comes to mergers and acquisitions, the bigger-dollar deals are still ironed out by New York-based lawyer...
Focus Column - By Linda Bulmash - Prior to the popularity of mediation as a dispute-resolving tool, litigators often had diffi...
Immigration
Illegal Immigration Isn't an Easy Issue for Blacks in America
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Two things happened within a day of each other this month that rammed race back into...
Forum Column - By Dale A. Baich - One concept both sides of the death-penalty debate can embrace is this: If America continues...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case involving alleged medical abuse of puppies by scientific researchers who lied about their project to...