Supervisory Guidance New EEOC Document Interprets 'Farragher' and 'Ellerth' By David Goldman On June 18, the Equal Employment...
Law Practice
Case Files Gone in Law Firm Burglary
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
SAN FRANCISCO - In what appears to be a theft of privileged information, the office of the plaintiffs' civil litigation firm o...
Memorial services will be announced at a later date for federal court practitioner Max Gillam, regarded by many as the most r...
Commercial Law
O.C. Bankruptcy Officer Earns $10M, Firm 'Pleased'
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - He denied granting a bonus to the law firm that won Orange County $865 million in bankruptcy settlements, but Tho...
Los Angeles County has opened itself up to sharp criticism by naming the city of Santa Monica as a defendant in a cross-compl...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the National Park Service violated the free speech rights of hom...
Judge Stephen M. Lachs generated a lot of attention 20 years ago when he was appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court benc...
SAN FRANCISCO - Plaintiffs' lawyers are scurrying to stave off dismissal of their investor class-action cases in the wake of ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Transcending Race By Thoughtfulness And Open Dialogue
By Don De Benedictis
Joe Hicks had to struggle to keep his mouth shut during his first meeting of the State Bar Board of Governors. As executive d...
WASHINGTON - Lawyers file suits against employers on behalf of employees all the time. Rarely, though, is the suit a class-ac...
SAN BERNARDINO - As a small child growing up in war-torn Cambodia, Run "Peter" Chhoun witnessed executions carried out by mem...
SACRAMENTO - Legislation to regulate long-term contracts for discount deposition services in civil cases appears to be dead f...
After hearing impassioned pleas on both sides, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to give preliminary ...
Over protests that too much money is being paid out, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to pay an addi...
A second sexual harassment lawsuit has been filed against Lynberg & Watkins and senior partner Charles A. Lynberg, who is...
Commercial Law
Hennigan Mercer Files Motion For More O.C. Bankruptcy Fees
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Little more than a week after contending that $26.3 million was not enough to be paid for representing Orange Cou...
NORWALK - A former Orange County man has pleaded guilty to charges he threatened to kill county Superior Court Judge Mary Eri...
Government
County Unanimously Votes to Halt Deportation of Abused Child
By Cheryl Romo
In response to a 15-year-old abused girl's plea to avoid deportation to Romania, county supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday...
On first blush, Albert Tolliver would appear to be another poster child for three-strikes law reform. Tolliver on Tuesday was...
SACRAMENTO - In the wake of this summer's spate of sensational attacks on minorities, California's district attorneys are urg...
SAN FRANCISCO - Corporations are not liable to pay punitive damages for the unlawful behavior of managers solely because they ...
A coalition of business groups filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Monday against the city of Los Angeles, charging that a l...
Following a decade-long trend to put limits on emotional distress awards, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that home...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis wants to bar "deep-pockets" liability when private-sector workers sue health plans over treatmen...
SACRAMENTO - Legislation to restore plaintiffs' right to sue insurers for bad-faith denial or delay of claims could exempt ca...
Intellectual Property
Oregon College Senior Convicted of Violating Internet Copyright Piracy
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced Monday that it had obtained the first conviction under a 1997 law designed to p...
Top law enforcement officials in Los Angeles County spoke out Monday in favor of a proposed ordinance to ban the sale of weap...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar President Promises the Start of a New Beginning
By Don De Benedictis
SAN FRANCISCO - Promising "a new beginning" for the State Bar, Andrew J. Guilford was elected Saturday to be the battered org...
Appellate Practice
Protection of Corporate Names From Cyber-Squatters Curtailed
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Seriously limiting the ability of big corporations to wrest Internet domain names from upstart rivals, a U.S....
Nearly two months have passed since a politically connected foster family agency was placed on "do not use" status by the Dep...