City Attorney Poll for Lazarus
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - San Franciscans want a city attorney who is, above all else, impartial. They don't much care if he or she has ...
Politico Honored for Public Service
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Bruce Babbitt is not someone who is at a loss for words on compelling topics. So attendees at Public Counsel's 2...
Avant On Guard
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - By reaching a deal last month in the Avant trade secrets case that will put several perpetrators behind bars, Santa...
Referee Duns LAUSD $75,000 For Discovery Noncompliance
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - A discovery referee dunned the Los Angeles Unified School District five times for a total of about $75,000 for a...
Latham Shows Leadership in Profit, Pro Bono
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Give Jack Walker a chance to tout his law firm's enduring commitment to pro bono work, and he's not likely to gi...
Pacemaker Case Not a Class Action, Court Rules
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Yanking the heart out of a products liability suit against the maker of an allegedly faulty pacemaker, a divid...
Homies Unidos Leader Gets a Clean Slate
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Alex Sanchez, the gangbanger turned peacemaker who made headlines when he faced deportation stemming from a Ramp...
Veteran Attorney, Active in His Church, Dies
By Megan Webb
LOS ANGELES - Owen Joseph Brady, a Pasadena lawyer whose Jesuit education guided his 50 years of practice, died of heart failu...
Market Madness
By Columnist
People become lawyers because they like to win. And as lawyers, they can delude themselves into seeing everything as a win-win...
Coastal Catch
By Columnist
Superior Court Judge Charles C. Kobayashi's May 8 ruling in Marine Forests Society v. California Coastal Commission, 00...
Backhouse Blues
By Columnist
The court stated that the distinction among permissible users of second units violated both privacy and equal-protection right...
Should We Ban Pit Bulls and Similar Breeds?
By Columnist
Should we ban pit bulls and similar dog breeds? ...
America Stands Out for its Judiciary Free of Corruption
No society in the world offers its citizenry access to a legal system comparable to that available in the United States. But i...
13th Council District Gets Voice at City Hall
By Chris Ford
LOS ANGELES - A diverse swath of Los Angeles stretching from Hollywood to just west of downtown has a voice in City Hall for t...
Judge Says Council Could Be Liable
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - In light of an appellate court ruling, a federal judge reversed himself Thursday and said Los Angeles City Counc...
Delgadillo Names Head of Transition Team
By Chris Ford
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney-elect Rockard J. "Rocky" Delgadillo on Thursday named O'Melveny & Myers litigation...
Former Inmate Files Civil Rights Lawsuit
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - A former Orange County jail inmate has filed a federal civil rights suit accusing sheriff's deputies of failing to...
Attorneys Make Practicing Law a True Family Affair
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A lot of parents spend a small fortune sending their kids to law school, and for most, watching their children r...
Cadence Demands Avant Pay $700M for Stolen Code
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Cadence Design Systems is asking a judge to award a whopping $700 million in compensation for lost profits and othe...
Challenge to Domestic Partner Rule Fails
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A trailblazing domestic partners ordinance, requiring San Francisco city contractors to provide equal benefits...
Fight to the Death
By Contributing Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Next month, with the near-certain cooperation of an Oakland judge, Alameda County Assistant District Attorney ...
Dismissal of Oil Company Conspiracy Case Upheld
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Plaintiffs' attorneys have failed to prove that nine oil giants conspired to bilk consumers by raising gasolin...
Immigrant Learns Law, Stops Her Deportation
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Denise Hart grinned, showing missing front teeth. It's part of the price she's paid as a former junkie who has s...
Court Requires Delivery of Signed Deposition Transcript for Perjury
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - In a Clintonesque opinion that parses the meaning of "it," a state appellate court has ruled that a witness has ...
Judge Orders Exam For E-Mailing Lawyer
By Amy Koval
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer who allegedly sent more than 100 menacing e-mails to opposing counsel after losing an egg price-fixing ...
Perfect Balance
By Columnist
If the conduct did not walk like harassment, or quack like harassment, Breeden enjoyed no legal protection in her complaint ac...
Telling It Like It Isn't
By Columnist
There's a Credence Clearwater Revival line about "some folks inherit star spangled eyes, they'll lead you down to war, and whe...
Cart Controversy
By Columnist
On May 29, the U.S. Supreme Court swung the disability pendulum again - this time toward the disability community, or at least...
New Practice Group At Heller Ehrman
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe has created a new practice group at the intersection of financial services...
Tears Are 'Legitimate Arguments Before Jury'
By Columnist
In Ferguson v. Moore, 98 Tenn. 342, 39 S.W. 341 (1897), Judge John S. Wilkes found the following for the court, in pert...