For managing partners at some of Southern California's law firms, the slumping real estate market signals a time to grow. ...
Law Practice
San Diego Lawyers Battling Taping of Privileged Conversations
By Pat Broderick
Two San Diego-based defense attorneys today plan to file a motion to dismiss a capital case on the grounds that confidential e...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Through Jazz, Bringing Mediation 'Fresh to Life'
By Greg Katzn
One day last week, a jazz trio let loose before a rapt audience with an improvised performance of Jerome Kern's 1933 standard,...
Rather than pushing back the trial of the only lawyer indicted for hiring Anthony Pellicano, a federal judge simply eliminated...
Debates over the government's role in regulating market exchanges suffer from a highly limited understanding of the civil law ...
Web Exclusive - A federal judge in Riverside on Tuesday ordered a U.S. Marine into jail for 18 months for refusing to testify ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Rules Against Death Verdict
By Amelia Hansenn
How can a defense attorney screw up at the penalty phase of a client's capital case? ...
A recent federal court ruling may have wide-ranging implications for activist stockholders and the public companies they targe...
Former litigator Peter H. Kirwan sought appointment to the bench because he wanted time to raise his children. Now that he's m...
California Supreme Court
Gay Marriage Has an S.F. Politico to Thank, and It's Not Newsom
By Laura Ernden
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's name has become synonymous with the effort to legalize gay marriage. ...
Can Cyrus Mark Sanai monkeywrench the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals? ...
Fred M. Greguras, formerly of counsel at Fenwick & West, starts at K & L Gates today as a partner in its corporate pr...
Taking up a closely watched clash between environmentalists and the military, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review c...
Law Practice
Longtime Prosecutor Makes 'Natural Step' to Private Practice
By Zack Vaneyckn
For nearly 20 years, Michael Zweiback represented the United States in federal court. But Monday marked the first day of the r...
A good number of lawyers are addicted to law and motion, writes Nora Quinn. - Forum Column ...
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday sidestepped a fight over the border fence between the United States and Mexico, rejecting an app...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Simply, Simplify: A Mantra for Transcendentalists and Litigators Alike
By Sara Libbyn
Sometimes you need to try more than one approach to simplifying material you present to a jury, writes G. Chritopher Ritter. -...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Kozinski Recuses Self From Judge Real's Misconduct Probe
By John Roemer
Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, currently the target of a judicial misconduct investigation, recused himself Monday from a miscondu...
Insureds doing business throughout the world should be aware of the unique risks presented by the newest weapon in the activis...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a California case to decide whether AT&T Corp. violated federal civil right...
The U.S. Supreme Court added five other new cases to its docket Monday, on the following issues: ...
Ryan H. Rainey once was a star federal prosecutor who handled child abuse cases and investigated civil rights violations withi...
A conservative public interest law firm in Sacramento is getting a million dollars richer at the expense of the city of San Fr...
Federal prosecutors announced a surprising deal Monday in which Henry Samueli, the billionaire Broadcom co-founder, admitted t...
Arnold & Porter has nabbed Beth Parker as a partner in its San Francisco office. Parker, who was previously a partner at B...
Bingham McCutchen is tempering a perpetual problem for its clients - escalating legal fees - by rejiggering an old solution: h...
Appellate Practice
Expert Questions Doll's Origin, Citing Notebook Indentations
By Jim Adamekn
Proceedings in the so-called "Bratz vs. Barbie" trial looked more like a CSI episode than a fight between two dolls Friday. ...
News organizations must be prepared to assert their editorial independence, and defend it, even at the cost of alienating a se...
Patient dumping is a dangerous and disgraceful but predictable accompaniment to the "market-driven" health care system in the ...
A group of strippers has filed suit against 19 of Los Angeles' largest gentlemen's clubs for what their lawyer is calling the ...