Military Law
Army Officer Worried About War Crimes Faces Tough Legal Battle
By David Minkown
Forum Column - Ehern Watada is a soldier who doesn't want to fight in Iraq.
LOS ANGELES - Defense lawyers for Merck & Co. challenged a marketing expert's testimony that the company's sales campaign ...
Environmental
Environmental Groups Threaten Suit Over Lead Ammunition
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - Lead: the bullet that keeps on killing. That's the thrust of objections being raised by a coalition of environ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Singer and activist Joan Baez will perform Monday evening at an anniversary dinner and fundraiser for a lawyer...
Forum Column - The death of two people in a Florida detention center last month was an avoidable tragedy. The result of govern...
Family
Father Sues County Over Its Failure to Reunite Him With His Daughter
By Erin Park
LOS ANGELES - A decorated former Marine and his biological daughter were wrongfully separated for a decade due to lies and neg...
Forum Column - For a judiciary seeking to limit the scope of private party constitutional litigation, the most straightforward...
LOS ANGELES - When Michael Schill was contemplating whether to take the deanship at the UCLA School of Law more than two years...
LOS ANGELES-For the second time in six months, a federal judge has imposed sanctions on Los Angeles city officials for violati...
SAN FRANCISCO - Strip-search class actions targeting jailers in California and around the nation gained momentum Tuesday as Sa...
Letter to the Editor - The long-awaited May 31 Supreme Court hearing on Proposition 64 and pending cases has come and gone. Ba...
LOS ANGELES - Affordable housing advocates, working to convince city officials to slow the tide of condo conversions sweeping ...
When you live with a criminal suspect whose computer is the target of a search warrant, e-mail messages on your personal compu...
Trusts & Estates
Witnesses Must Sign Will While the Testator Is Alive
By David Minkown
Focus Column - In the Estate of Saueressig (June 22, 2006), the state Supreme Court reversed the 2nd District Court of ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Lawmakers, Video Game Makers Grapple Over Violence
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - The trench-coat-wearing protagonist of the video game "Postal 2" spends his day buying milk, confessing his sins...
Law Practice
Officer and Attorney - Double Duty With Reed Smith and the Guard
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - For most working professionals with families, giving ample time to both is a balancing act. For Jesse L. Mille...
Focus Column - The characterization of a child support obligor's interest in company stock has major ramifications on how a co...
Labor/Employment
Nurses Will Protest as Board Ponders Definition of Supervisor
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - This week, thousands of nurses across the nation will take to the streets to argue that they are not supervisors.
Forum Column - Its been almost a year since the Office of Administrative Hearing has assumed the role of adjudicating administ...
SAN FRANCISCO - California's debate over same-sex marriage took its next historic turn Monday as a state appellate court seeme...
Environmental
Proposed Offshore Drilling Blasts Environmental Protections
By David Minkown
Forum Column - With the fight to pry open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge having stalled out, the oil and gas oligarchy an...
Government
City Attorney Appoints Litigator Specializing in Toxic Torts to Ethics Panel
By Erin Park
LOS ANGELES - A civil litigator specializing in toxic torts and environmental property damage has been nominated for a five-ye...
Judges and Judiciary
Kennedy Calls Pressure for Stronger Sentences 'Sick'
By Amelia Hansen
HUNTINGTON BEACH - In a free-form speech, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy waxed nostalgic Monday about his Calif...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for the Catholic Church in San Diego have asked two television stations to turn over notes and other m...
Cosmetics maker L'Oréal USA broke the state's wage laws when it stiffed a Los Angeles hair model for $500 for over two months,...
You can get a fair trial even if your parents are colleagues of your prosecutor, a divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday.
SAN FRANCISCO - Reed Smith gained two more Steefel, Levitt & Weiss partners looking for international resources in order t...
Law Practice
Latham Securities Litigator Crosses to Fenwick & West
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Securities litigator Jay L. Pomerantz is leaving Latham & Watkins for a partner position with Fenwick &...
Labor/Employment
Employers Need Master Plan to Protect Privacy of Personal Data
By David Minkown
Focus Column - California statutes require employers to safeguard the personal and private information that they obtain from t...
Fish & Richardson named John C. Phillips the managing principal of the firm's San Diego office. Phillips is a patent attor...