Lawyers representing active and former military service members who are suing the government over their discharges or pending ...
A Los Angeles attorney's long quest to receive a $1.1 million class-action referral fee from the Milberg Weiss law firm came t...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
New Trial for Alleged Eco-Terrorist
By John Roemer
An Oakland woman got an unfair federal trial on charges stemming from a 2001 Earth Liberation Front firebombing at a Seattle u...
A sports agent who sued his former agency to void a non-compete clause has settled the case, leaving the legal questions aroun...
In what real estate brokers are calling the San Francisco Bay Area's largest industrial investment of the year, a 721,204-squa...
Mary Nichols, who is heading up California's push to implement its landmark global warming law, said Wednesday that efforts to...
Even if some state appellate courts reach a decision before oral argument that doesn't mean this practice should be dismissed ...
The National Labor Relations Board's new Democratic majority will likely result in more pro-union decisions, by Alan R. Berkow...
While gift giving is nothing new, marketing programs for certain court reporting business merit a second look, by Early Langle...
Corporate
Dodd-Frank and the 2011 Proxy Season: Start Preparing Now for 2011 Say on Pay Votes
By Carla Pinedan
September 16, 2010 For a successful 2011 proxy season, U.S. companies are wise to start preparing now for say on pay votes, b...
How to safeguard your business against complex information security obligations when IT functions are outsourced, by Daniel B....
After having spent at least $32 million on litigation, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has dropped remaining claims ...
Entertainment & Sports
Toyota Allegedly Hid Faults Behind 2005 U.S. Truck Recall
By Gabe Friedmann
Revealing new details into an alleged cover-up of driver complaints related to a 2005 Toyota Motor Corp. recall a lawyer for p...
Congress responded to a preliminary injunction on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, which was ordered Au...
Even as the economy soured and unemployment soared in 2009, a two-decade trend of falling crime continued nationwide and in Ca...
Consumer Attorneys of California and United Policyholders are teaming up to help victims of the recent San Bruno gas line expl...
Riverside County officials are going to help Judge Paul Zellerbach's transition into his new job as district attorney because ...
Perspective
Familial DNA Search: Chains That Betray, Chains That Bind
By Carla Pinedan
Los Angeles' "Grim Sleeper" was the first case in America to use familial DNA testing to solve a crime. What does this process...
Casting aside the reputation of law firms as slow adopters of new technology, Latham & Watkins launched its own iPhone app...
Despite the fanfare surrounding the end of combat operations in Iraq, the United States will continue to pull strings there, b...
As expected, President Barack Obama has renominated two controversial picks for federal courts in California.
The bankruptcy reorganization of the largest private real estate land owner in downtown Los Angeles has turned ugly and put th...
Education
School Fees in Public Education: The Continuing Legacy of Hartzell v. Connell
By Carla Pinedan
The right to "free" K-12 public education is facing increasing difficulty in the current era of extreme fiscal crisis for all ...
Critics of Proposition 14 were dealt a huge blow Tuesday when a San Francisco County Superior Court judge denied their request...
Fifteen years after joining the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles as a second-year law student, Angela S. Haskins will ...
By Lisa Kestenbaum Daily Journal Staff Writer For San Francisco attorney Constantine "Gus" Panagotacos, baseball is j...
San Jose-based online auction site eBay Inc. successfully fought off a trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Tiffany Inc. wh...
Letter to the Editor
Experience, History and Intuition Justify Prop. 8
By Carla Pinedan
By John K. Haggerty
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on Tuesday that in-house counsel correspondence with clients doesn't qualify ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court: Federal Agents Can Take DNA of Pretrial Felony Defendants
By John Roemer
Federal agents can sample the DNA of pretrial felony defendants without a warrant, a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...