Law Practice
BERG: President Obama's First Defeat Is Also a Defeat for Homeowners
By Martin Bergn
Columnist Martin Berg writes that Congress and President Obama have lost the one stick in their arsenal to bring stem to the f...
The settlement involving Google's plan to digitize books is seen by many as an ambitious change in the organization of written...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Prevention and Education Programs Will Drastically Reduce Health Care Costs
By Sara Libbyn
The Obama administration can improve Americans' health by focusing attention on chronic disease and prevention, writes Bryan A...
Entertainment & Sports
Indemnity Policies Are Crucial to Setting the Stage for a Smooth Live Show
By Sara Libbyn
In arranging a live performance contract, an area of considerable negotiation is insurance and indemnification provisions, wri...
Shell Oil Co. is off the hook for millions of dollars of environmental cleanup costs at a California Superfund site after the ...
Discipline
Former Santa Cruz County Prosecutor Suspended for Two Years
By Amy Yarbroughn
The California Supreme Court suspended former Santa Cruz County prosecutor George Hall Dunlap Jr. from practicing law for two ...
The rules of diversity jurisdiction and corporate citizenship are complicated, especially when litigating in California federa...
In a published opinion that loosens limits on consumer class actions, an appellate court said Safeco Insurance Co. must disclo...
U.S. Supreme Court
Use of Identity Theft Tactic in Immigration Cases Rejected
By Robert Iafolla
In a unanimous repudiation of an immigration enforcement tactic often used by the Bush administration, the U.S. Supreme Court ...
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Joan Cartwright started her career in child education. Now, after decades on the bench, sh...
In deciding whether to charge for their content online, newspapers must ask whether they have the legal right to block others ...
As general counsel for USC, Carol Mauch Amir deals with more legal issues - academic tenure, employment, licensing, liability,...
With President Barack Obama reportedly looking for a liberal woman or Hispanic to replace David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Cou...
Law Practice
Lawyers Ask High Court to Loosen Restrictions on Practice by Out-of-State Attorneys
By Amy Yarbroughn
Out-of-state attorneys are pushing for rule changes that would let them practice law more freely in California. ...
Despite the ongoing recession, the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles' Legal Division raised a record-breaking $1.4 mill...
Perspective
Real Business Development Requires a Focused, Sustained Effort
By Sara Libbyn
The art of rainmaking, maintaining and retaining clients remain a mystery to many lawyers at all levels, writes Melissa Ertek....
The authors of the so-called torture memos made careful and reasoned arguments under the law and facts presented to them, writ...
A new state Senate bill includes broad authority for local agencies to use the design-build delivery method for courts, correc...
Large Firms
As Law Firms Retrench, San Francisco Office Space Goes Begging
By Jill Redhage
The commercial real estate market in San Francisco is reeling from the effects of the recession. The legal sector, a San Franc...
Government
Obama Seeking Recommendations for New U.S. Attorneys in S.F., L.A.
By Susan Mcraen
President Barack Obama has asked U.S. senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer for recommendations for new U.S. attorneys i...
Now that the opportunity to make an early U.S. Supreme Court appointment has fallen into President Barack Obama's lap, the big...
Government
Whether it's writing articles, speaking or positioning yourself as the "go to" expert in your practice area, your strategy for...
A former prosecutor, Judge Timothy Roberts is perceived by some as never leaving his DA roots, but others say the judge simply...
Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, left, and state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner review confiscated jewel...
A Democratic plan to empower bankruptcy judges to modify troubled home mortgages died on the Senate floor Thursday, apparently...
If job-seeking lawyers were expecting encouragement when they turned up en masse at the Los Angeles County Bar Association on ...
Verdicts
$3.75 Million Settlement in Orange County Jail Beating Is a New Record
By Don Debenedictisn
Fernando Ramirez, an undocumented worker from Mexico, was left brain damaged from a beating he took from fellow inmates. The s...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Particularly in Tough Times, Civility Among Lawyers Can Go a Long Way
By Sara Libbyn
Lawyers have notorious reputations - and much of the time, they're well-earned, write Katherine A. Helm and Joel Cohen. ...
Courts have differed on the doctrine of "exhaustion of administrative remedies," writes Michael Paul Thomas. ...