Forum (Forum & Focus)
'Rapanos' Revisited: Decision Disrespectful of Property Rights
By Sara Libbyn
Despite all of the litigation efforts made, America still awaits a clear definition of the Clean Water Act's reference to the ...
In 2008, California's appellate courts issued a number of decisions clarifying insurance coverage issues, writes Kirk A. Pasic...
The Daily Journal's annual roundup of 20 top California lawyers under 40 spotlights practitioners working on cutting edge matt...
Another chunk of the former entertainment practice at the now-defunct Dreier Stein Kahan has found a new home. They are starti...
Large Firms
Bankruptcy Judge to Consider Heller's Request to Reject Leases
By Jill Redhage
A judge will weigh three requests this afternoon from attorneys representing Heller Ehrman in its bankruptcy: that the dissolv...
A federal judge has ordered lawyers in the Bratz doll litigation into court next week for an extraordinary hearing to discuss ...
Los Angeles-based First Regional Bancorp has elected a principal at Calabasas-based Horgan, Rosen, Beckham & Coren as its ...
Former East Philadelphia police officer Richard A. Platel now enforces justice as a California Bar Court judge. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Obama Is Being Pressured to Diversify S.F. Bench
By Rebecca Beyer
As President Barack Obama takes office in the nation's capital, attention on the other side of the country - specifically in t...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit: AOL Class Action Can Proceed in California
By John Roemer
The tiny word "of" had big implications for angry AOL members looking to sue after their Internet service provider publicly di...
As a president coming into office with a scary economic crisis, two wars, shaky confidence in public institutions, diminished ...
Weathering the global recession will require most companies to take pro-active cost-cutting measures, write Susan Eandi and Ut...
Judges and Judiciary
San Jose Judge, IP Expert, to Take Senior Status
By David Houstonn
Attorneys and colleagues hailed U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte, who is taking senior status in March after 16 years on the f...
Our asylum laws should be updated so that they protect women who have survived severe domestic violence at the hands of their ...
Unlike other San Francisco law firms struggling because of the recession, Littler Mendelson is betting that the economic turmo...
Law Practice
Witnesses to History: California Lawyers Trek to Inauguration
By Robert Iafolla
On a summer day in 1963, litigator Sanford Jay Rosen witnessed Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "I Have a Dream" speech deliv...
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court Takes Up Two 9th Circuit Education Cases
By Lawrence Hurleyn
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Friday to take on two touchy education issues arising out of separate 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Los Angeles County Judge Brett C. Klein, an accomplished trumpeter, is among 30 judges and lawyers who have formed LA Lawyers ...
Attorneys from Jones Day pulled off a stunning acquittal of former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona on five of six corruption...
Patricia Nieto points the way for wayward youths by emphasizing her working-class upbringing. ...
Hunton & Williams has taken in four former Heller Ehrman associates.
The matters heard in the courtroom - driving under the influence, drug infractions, assault - are routine, but the defendants ...
Da Vinci prints dress up a plain Redlands courtroom, reflecting the roots of Cynthia A. Ludvigsen, who sits on the probate be...
Government
Holder Won't Rule Out Charging Bush Administration Officials
By Robert Iafolla
President-elect Barack Obama's pick for attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., walked a fine line at his confirmation hearing T...
In one of the most backlogged trial courts in California, Riverside County Judge Christopher J. Sheldon made a habit of leavin...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Hears Test Case Over Gun Rights
By Rebecca Beyer
A 9th Circuit panel Thursday considered whether an Alameda County ordinance banning guns on county property violates the First...
Asia is the next frontier in the two-century debate about state execution as a criminal punishment, write David T. Johnson and...
As the March primary in the crowded Los Angeles city attorney race draws near, lawyers are donating money for their favorite c...
Thanks to a recent appellate court decision, corporate officers can be held liable for environmental wrongdoings, write Matthe...
The pending Employee Free Choice Act could have a drastic effect on union organization success rates, writes D. Gregory Valenz...