Administrative/Regulatory
Beyond Superman -- Legal Comic Books Bring Justice to the Masses
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Kristian Williams - The law is famously complex, technical and difficult to understand, and lawyers often en...
Environmental
9th Circuit Considers How Far Water Protections Will Flow
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Environ-mentalists, in a case that could greatly expand the universe of private litigation, urged the 9th U.S...
Administrative/Regulatory
Archdiocese Must Give Abuse Papers to Grand Jury, Court Says
By Itir Yakar And Sandra Hernandez
LOS ANGELES - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles must turn over church documents to a grand jury, the California Su...
LOS ANGELES - Like other law firms, Ivie McNeill & Wyatt strives to create a diverse work force. "We live in a diverse ci...
LOS ANGELES - The class that entered UCLA School of Law in 1994 appeared to signal a new era. For the first time at a "top 50...
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer defended himself Wednesday against accusations he is suing an affiliate of Sempra ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The district attorney's office refused Wednesday to file murder charges in the case of a slain rap artist, pr...
Law Practice
Law Firms Use Specialists to Tackle Recruitment, Retention
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Forty-six percent of law firms have a designated diversity manager whose primary description is to "develop or p...
LOS ANGELES - By the time John H. Reid was 18, he'd wanted to be a lawyer for more than half his life. In 1957, fictional atto...
International
Where in the World Is Michael Jackson's Deposition? Pick a Continent
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Bahrain, Paris or London? When it came to picking a place to depose pop star Michael Jackson in a civil suit in ...
LOS ANGELES - A monsignor in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles cannot assert "clergy privilege" to avoid disclosi...
JURORS LIKE PLAIN ENGLISH - Three out of four potential jurors say California's new plain-English jury instructions are easier...
SAN DIEGO - The judge who made the rare decision to reverse a jury's conviction of a San Diego city councilman in a corruption...
SAN FRANCISCO - First, the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco wouldn't allow a major energy fraud case to be decided by a...
Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - The state Supreme Court's "Werdegar committee" on publication of appellate opinions - c...
Mergers & Acquisitions
U.S. Buyout Company Plans to Add Canadian Software Maker
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Kirkland & Ellis attorneys are representing San Francisco buyout firm Golden Gate Capital in its $1 billion...
Judges and Judiciary
Prosecutor Testifies He Misstated Accusations
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VENTURA - A prosecutor who accused a Santa Barbara County trial judge of improperly questioning him in court admitted Tuesday...
LOS ANGELES - Some paralegals in the Los Angeles County district attorney's office are balking at an effort to incorporate th...
LOS ANGELES - Nissan North America's California-based attorneys will have to decide whether to join the company's relocation ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Arthur T. Bridgett, a founding partner of the longtime San Francisco law firm Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate court appears comfortable with allowing an influential San Diego businessman to be banned f...
Government Contracts
Delgadillo Launches Closer Oversight of Outside Counsel
By Erin Park
LOS ANGELES - After coming under fire for soaring outside legal counsel costs, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has implemented ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal regulators Tuesday touted their progress in enforcing environmental laws, saying they had prodded com...
LOS ANGELES - Federal appeals court judges appeared bothered Tuesday by the government's use of "subinformants" in drug cases....
LOS ANGELES - Japanese construction company Obayashi Corp. plans to snap up a North Carolina-based construction firm for an un...
CHIEF JUDGE RALLIES FOR COURTS - California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George took to the airwaves this week, providin...
LOS ANGELES - Among some of the state's trial lawyers, Frank M. Pitre is known as "The Count." Former Consumer Attorneys of Ca...
RETAIL OCEANSIDE - Central Purchasing LLC, doing business as Harbor Freight Tools (a hardware store), signed a 60-month lease...
Forum Column - By M. Gregg Bloche and Jonathan H. Marks - How did American interrogation tactics after 9/11 come to include ab...
Personal Injury & Torts
Liability Defense Can Argue Plaintiffs 'Should've Known'
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Focus Column - By David Martinez and Hassan Allen - Subject to certain exceptions, manufacturers, distributors and sellers of ...