Adil Haq was a first-year associate in Heller Ehrman’s San Francisco office. He looks back for signs that the venerable firm w...
A Contra Costa County deputy district attorney pleaded not guilty Friday morning to raping one of his colleagues. ...
Sacramento-based Stevens & O'Connell may be a small shop, but its top-notch reputation was enough to lure a leading litiga...
Find out who passed the July 2008 California Bar Exam in the current issue of The New Lawyer.
Three lawyers are among the newly elected directors and officers of Aids Project Los Angeles.
Judge Alan M. Ahart offers a sounding board to an increasing number of pro se petitioners appearing in his Central District c...
"All of a sudden in the span of four years virtually all our experienced judges are retiring," said Presiding Judge David Rose...
Whether he's put on the spot or coaxing along a ponderous prelim, Judge William H. Kronberger Jr. adapts smoothly to testin...
Real Estate/Development
L.A. Considers Eviction Ban for Renters in Foreclosed Properties
By Peter Matuszakn
Responding to the current foreclosure crisis as it spreads from single-family homeowners to displacing renters when landlords ...
Deal With It
Ombudsman Programs: Key to Effective Corporate Governance
By Alexia Garamfalvin
Essential to any effective corporate governance strategy is timely, unfiltered disclosure and effective resolution of unethica...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Confidentiality Question Headed Back to Trial Court
By Greg Katzn
The state Supreme Court has denied review of an appellate decision that had become a cause celebre for mediators concerned abo...
A judge Wednesday granted class status to a group of gays, lesbians and bisexuals alleging discrimination against matchmaking ...
Patience is the key to settling cases, Charles G. Bakaly Jr. has found. ...
Law Practice
Supreme Court Throws Kink in Proposed State Bar Rules on Discipline
By Amy Yarbroughn
The State Bar is taking a second look at two controversial measures to toughen the attorney discipline system, thanks to the s...
Employers must take quick, decisive action to protect trade secrets when an employee leaves to work with a competitor, writes ...
Law Practice
Appeals Court Shelves Shell's Exploratory Drilling in Alaska
By Fiona Smith
A division of Shell Oil Co. saw its hopes to "drill, baby, drill" dampened on Thursday after an appeals court nixed its govern...
In this current business and economic climate, employers should consider junking the “at-will” rule in favor of employment con...
Saturday marks the 45th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Justice Stuart R. Pollak of the 1st District Court of ...
Law Practice
Jurors in MySpace Suicide Case Hear About Girl's Problems
By Alan Mittelstaedtn
The prosecution's star witness in the MySpace cyber-bullying case testified that Missouri businesswoman Lori Drew was aware of...
A police officer has won a $3.6 million jury award after he claimed that he lost salary and rank and was kicked out of an elit...
The California Supreme Court narrowly averted disaster this week in an important antitrust case that was plagued by conflicts ...
Public-interest attorneys won a crucial victory Thursday, when the California Supreme Court unanimously rejected an attempt to...
Lathrop & Gage has merged with Los Angeles boutique Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow, marking the Kansas City-based firm'...