In practice and to create legal certainty, a product's warranty terms should make clear whose life is relevant and how 'lifeti...
Litigation
MGA Picks Howard Rice Attorneys to Handle Appellate Work
By Jason W. Armstrong
MGA Entertainment has tapped well-known San Francisco litigators Jerome B. Falk Jr. and Douglas A. Winthrop to serve as appell...
In less than two years as a lawyer, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker’s Abigail W. Lloyd has amassed an impressive caselo...
Government
Governor's Legal Advisers Are Veterans of Payroll Controversy
By Peter Matuszakn
Andrea Hoch, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's legal affairs secretary, and her chief deputy, were part of a team that argued befor...
A federal judge overseeing litigation involving the painkillers Bextra and Celebrex on Friday ordered plaintiffs to submit inf...
Family Law Judge Wendy G. Getty forgoes the robe and bench to sit down with all the attorneys and parties for some candid disc...
Those who appear before her like the way Margaret Miller Bernal handles her job on Los Angeles County Superior Court. That inc...
Virginia-based Hunton & Williams has added nine partners from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, including one Los Angele...
A former Orange County deputy public defender was sentenced Friday to 95 days in jail for stalking his former girlfriend and t...
For Georgina Torres Rizk, taking a seat on the Superior Court was the next step in a legal career that has spanned almost 35 y...
Before Orange County billionaire Henry Samueli can walk away from the Broadcom stock-options scandal with a large payment but ...
Clif Bar General Counsel Bruce Lymburn found a way to combine his love of business law and real estate law with an environment...
Julian B. Sapirstein decides if mentally ill patients in San Francisco are ready to return to society. ...
Insider Trading: The Next Market Scandal? ...
Under President Bush, immigration courts have been undermined by a judicial hiring process that delayed important work in orde...
Proponents of medical marijuana use received good news Thursday from the 4th District Court of Appeal, which ruled that federa...
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision upholding a personal right to own guns is a good example of how appellate courts have...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Gang Intervention Experts Discuss Techniques
By Greg Katzn
Most mediations center around justice, money and relationships.
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Governor's Decision to Reduce State Employee Pay Is Flawed
By Sara Libbyn
The governor errs in relying on the Supreme Court’s decision in White v. Davis to support his proposed reduction of state empl...
Lisa Gilford, a litigation partner with Los Angeles firm Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish, was appointed pre...
Lawmakers are about to recess but they haven't considered proposals to increase judge salaries and add a number of judgeships ...
A federal judge has cemented a $2.3 million settlement between the city and hundreds of homeless residents who say police and ...
Three California Supreme Court justices Thursday urged the Legislature to take another look at the state's whistleblower law, ...
Employers can save time and money by doing compliance assessment and proactive planning before getting sued, writes Nancy Yaff...
A roundup of the final events at the 9th U.S. Circuit's Meeting in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Two Perkins Coie partners in San Francisco jumped ship this week to form their own labor and employment and commercial litigat...
Atlanta-based Alston + Bird entered California with a bang Wednesday. It announced a merger with Los Angeles' 83-attorney West...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediators Struggle to Gain a Foothold in Kern County Superior Court
By Greg Katzn
Making a career of mediation is difficult even in the most litigious and metropolitan counties. But as Robert Fairman's dilemm...
Judges and Judiciary
Forest Service Lobbies 9th Circuit Meeting on Fire Management
By Alexia Garamfalvin
Trends in fire science were on the docket at the 9th circuit annual conference Wednesday in a National Interagency Fire Center...
Law Practice
Environmental Group Says Yucca Valley Should Conduct Studies on the Effects of Wal-Mart
By Fiona Smith
Web Exclusive - An environmental group opposed to plans for a large Wal-Mart store in Yucca Valley sued local government offic...