Alternative Dispute Resolution
Jammed Riverside Court Will Compel Mediation
By Greg Katzn
The first thing Riverside County Superior Court Judge Michael B. Donner told a courtroom packed with trial-ready lawyers on a ...
U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker of San Francisco will decide whether Congress acted constitutionally in granting telecoms...
When a person is vindicated and receives compensation for unlawful incarceration, recent IRS releases suggest it may be taxabl...
Neutral Robert A. Merring played in the Rose Bowl twice, on New Year's Day 1971 and 1972. ...
San Diego's Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch has added three attorneys to its business and technology team.
Shareholder activism hits a bump in the road.
Hypocrisy is on display in calling for boxer to sign off on federal judge’s nomination
Appellate Practice
After 32 Years, Pioneering Judicial Attorney Will Retire
By Pat Broderick
Webster Burke Kinnaird, aka Buzz, has spent the last three decades reinventing the once lowly position of a court attorney. ...
The amount of greenhouse gases a company produces doesn't carry a price tag now, but it will soon. ...
Law Practice
Prominent Antitrust Litigator Leaves Heller for Sheppard
By Rebecca U. Cho
Prominent antitrust litigator Darryl Snider jumped from Heller Ehrman to the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter &...
A federal judge has halted the state's most recent Medi-Cal cuts by issuing an injunction that restores the reimbursement rate...
Despite the anticipation surrounding the wealthiest Angeleno's appearance in federal court Wednesday, Kirk Kerkorian's actual ...
The challenge for all levels of government is to figure out how to promote the development of solar energy in a responsible ma...
Law Practice
9th Circuit Strikes Ruling Against State's Air Pollution Efforts
By Fiona Smith
Web Exclusive - A federal appeals court stepped into a long-running fight between environmentalists and the state over air qua...
Law Practice
Federal Judge Says Medical Pot Raids May Violate U.S. Constitution
By Rebecca Beyer
Web Exclusive - In a first-of-its kind ruling, a federal judge in San Jose says the U.S. government's selective targeting of m...
Litigation
Mattel Seeks $1.8 Billion in War Over Bratz Doll Design
By Jason W. Armstrong
The lead attorney for Mattel urged a federal jury Wednesday to force a competitor to pay his client nearly $2 billion in damag...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
How an Unassuming Hero Cleared the Way for an Important Legal Tool
By Sara Libbyn
The sacrifices of a 1970s farmworker eventually established a procedure that has been used to protect the rights of political ...
A boycott of the Manchester Grand Hyatt has spurred the Association of American Law Schools to move all of its annual conferen...
If the Justice Department won’t clean up its own immigration mess, then lawyers zealously representing aggrieved immigration c...
Four Thelen Reid project finance partners have joined Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff in San Francisco.
Whether he's restoring Civil War rifles or rebuilding his home from the ashes of an accidental fire, Judge Wayne R. Parrish br...
Discipline
9th Circuit Has Stern Words for L.A. Immigration Judge Who Denied Relief
By Jim Adamekn
For the second time in less than a year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rebuked a prominent Los Angeles immigration...
Noemi Robinson is a member of the Pink Pistols, a gay advocacy group for guns as self-defense. She has children and keeps her ...
Middle-aged and elderly television writers who accused studios and talent agencies of age discrimination have reached the firs...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Character Witnesses Hold Prosecutor in High Regard
By Amy Yarbroughn
A former San Jose mayor, an assemblywoman and the general counsel for a Silicon Valley tech giant all came to the defense of e...
The SAFETY Act represents a rare opportunity to minimize or eliminate the potentially devastating liability associated with te...
A renowned forensic audio expert testified Tuesday that he could not determine if the recorded conversations between attorney ...
The attorneys who stood up to the government's appalling military commissions should be applauded for taking on great risk to ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Let Kids Be Kids - And Let Them Be Adopted by Caring Families
By Sara Libbyn
A state appellate court was right to recognize that no child should have wait for the day when his or her birth father is reha...
Prosecutors have opposed a double jeopardy claim by accused pornographer Ira Isaacs, whose federal obscenity case resulted in...