The bad economy has forced Leonard J. McGill, general counsel of an RV and mobile home manufacturing company, Fleetwood Enterp...
Recent years have not been kind to consumer arbitration agreements. And efforts to change the way they are used is coming from...
California Attorney General Jerry Brown just took the kick out of a popular alcoholic drink. Brown joined with San Francisco C...
The RESPECT Act and the Patriot Employer Act are just two among many pieces of legislation likely to affect employers and work...
Copyright law is the most inefficient property system known to man, Lawrence Lessig writes in his new book, "“Remix: Making Ar...
A recent appellate case shows the proper interplay between court and jury findings in cases involving legal and equitable issu...
One-time rock band member and plaintiffs' lawyer Robert M. Tessier changes his career path. ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Los Angeles Court's ADR Programs to Get New Leader
By Greg Katzn
After six years chairing the Los Angeles County Superior Court's ADR committee, Judge Helen I. Bendix will step down from that...
Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas told a federal corruption jury Thursday that former county sheriff Mike Carona...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Charter Committee Never Intended for Controller to Audit Elected Officials
By Sara Libbyn
No one who had a part in creating the City Charter believed the controller's authority to conduct performance audits would app...
The news about the economy just went from bad to worse - that is, if you are on the losing end of a wrongful termination suit....
A 4-3 majority of the California Supreme Court refused to give a Los Angeles woman who pulled her friend from a car after an a...
USC Gould School of Law has named a new associate dean and chief development officer.
State Bar & Bar Associations
Personal is Political for Incoming San Francisco Bar President, Newlywed
By Amy Yarbroughn
Russ Roeca, chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco's Marriage Fairness Task Force, takes over as the bar's president to...
Former prosecutor Christopher J. Evans no longer has the narrow vision of an advocate. 'You literally don't care who wins.' ...
Researchers say 750,000 patients traveled internationally for medical treatment last year, despite the fact that courts in pop...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Deja Vu All Over Again: Earlier Crises Can Guide Plaintiffs' Lawyers
By Sara Libbyn
Some of the important lessons from the savings and loan crisis, and even from Watergate, can guide today's plaintiffs' lawyers...
Just in time for the holidays: lawsuits against Christmas festivals and shopper-on-shopper violence, writes John G. Browning. ...
Columnist Martin Berg wonders if a high-profile veteran sex crimes prosecutor committed a harmless slip of the tongue in closi...
A two-year-old copyright infringement complaint featuring some of the world's most famous musicians, two big-name law firms, l...
A federal judge has rejected 17 pretrial defense motions in the Broadcom stock options backdating case, putting the trial of t...
Baker & McKenzie has added a former Heller Ehrman lawyer to its Washington D.C. office.
Litigation
Though Weakened by Disease, Lawyer Tries to Strengthen Riverside Bar
By Jason W. Armstrong
In March, E. Aurora Hughes was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease. The disease stopped Hughes from practicing law. But she's ...
With Latham & Watkins' announcement that the firm will be freezing associate salaries at 2008 levels for the coming year, ...
Maurice R. Hogan Jr., a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge and JAMS mediator, has died after a long battle with Parkinso...
After a drawn-out negotiation guided by lawyers from O'Melveny & Myers and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, French-owned video ...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Looking to Cut Costs? Take a Cue From Plaintiffs' Attorneys
By Sara Libbyn
Attorneys looking to cut costs in a down market should take a cue from successful plaintiffs' lawyers, write Micah R. Jacobs a...
The Commission on Judicial Performance Tueday publicly admonished Alameda judge Christine Moruza, citing numerous cases in whi...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Revives Alien Tort Case Against Mining Company
By Rebecca Beyer
A sharply divided 9th Circuit sent a human rights lawsuit back to an L.A. federal judge for her to consider whether the Papu...
Starting Jan. 1, children covered by Medi-Cal, the state's version of Medicaid, will have to submit paperwork every six months...