Few things in real estate survived the recession unscathed beyond the basic industry fundamentals of putting together bricks a...
State Bar & Bar Associations
New Bar President: Efficient, Organized
By Don Debenedictisn
William N. Hebert of San Francisco's Calvo & Clark will become the new president of the State Bar in September. ...
Barbara Caulfield, former managing partner of Dewey & LeBouef's Silicon Valley office, and colleagues Michael Malecek and ...
California attorneys helped orchestrate the acquisition, announced Monday, of San Jose-based 2Wire Inc. by the U.K's Pace PLC ...
Documentary filmmakers and iPhone application users were among the winners of the U.S. Librarian of Congress' new rules allowi...
The estate of late Ameriquest Mortgage founder Roland Arnall is battling a charity over whether he pledged $18 million to fund...
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Peter P. Espinoza, who threw his hat in to become the next public defender, is ineligi...
Presiding Justice Arthur G. Scotland, who has been at the helm of Sacramento's 3rd District Court of Appeal since 1998, will r...
Chipotle restaurants' tall counters deny customers in wheelchairs the full "Chipotle experience," violating the Americans with...
Letter to the Editor
Counsel for the Collins family in Collins v. Plant Insulation Co. ...
Ever heard of an "assault by bubble?" Well, a protestor at the G20 Summit was threatened with arrest for this very act, by Don...
Days before Arizona's tough new immigration law is set to take effect, two of the state's legislators, Democratic Rep. Kyrsten...
Perspective
Breaking the Logjam Of Nominations to the Federal Trial Courts
By Carla Pinedan
There is no reason to delay in confirmation of well-qualified, noncontroversial judicial nominees, by Carl Tobias of Universit...
Ten reasons why every employer should have an employee handbook, by Michele Goldsmith of Bergman & Dacey Inc. ...
In the heat of litigation, attorneys can overlook essential steps or terms. So why not consider checklists to avoid mistakes? ...
Government lawyers got the green light from the California Supreme Court Monday to team up with outside counsel on a contingen...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Updates Discipline Rules, Nixes 'Screening' Of Conflict Clients
By Don Debenedictisn
Sending a major rewrite of the California lawyer discipline rules on to the Supreme Court, the State Bar nixed three proposals...
Former career prosecutor Renée Korn says it was challenging to switch from advocate to independent arbiter. Lawyers say the Lo...
Lawyers say Gary Tanaka, a juvenile court judge in Los Angeles County, takes time to fully understand what's best for the chil...
On the 20th anniversary of the ADA, plaintiff attorneys and others said the law that took down physical impediments and helped...
Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs of The Tennis Channel Santa Monica, CA ...
Proposition 21, passed in 2000, has complicated the question of whether a juvenile under the age of 18 can be tried as an adul...
Neal A. Dublinsky 1963-2010 ...
Two U.S. senators have asked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to address whether the Treasury Department may grant plaintif...
A new survey of first-year salaries for law school graduates contains sobering news for the class of 2010, with a finding that...
Facebook Inc. scored a victory last week when plaintiffs' attorneys dismissed a class action that claimed the social networkin...
In a novel move in the rapidly growing arena of false patent marking, the claim against one defendant was dismissed for lack o...
The City of Huntington Park's public financing authority is suing the law firm Best Best & Krieger, alleging legal malprac...
Los Angeles County officials are finalizing a contract that would give the Office of Independent Review authority to monitor t...
Federal prosecutors are going forward with their perjury case against former Giants slugger Barry Bonds, but a trial likely wo...