A former Upward Bound instructor and college adviser, Commissioner Michael Garcia brings those qualities of listening and conv...
With the mortgage market paralyzed and the housing market in the tank, selling a house is beginning to look like a bad idea to...
Orange County Superior Court judges on Friday elected Kim G. Dunning as presiding judge and Thomas J. Borris as assistant pres...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed four attorneys to counsel and advise various departments within the state government.
With the Supreme Court's blockbuster decision Thursday in favor of terrorism suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the ...
Corporate Counsel
Live Nation's Legal Keeper Makes Most Work an Inside Job
By David Houstonn
In October, Madonna signed a reported $120Â million deal with Beverly Hills-based Live Nation Inc. that includes recordings, c...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Kozinski Calls for Investigation of Himself Over Racy Web Site
By John Roemer
Chief Judge Alex Kozinski Thursday called for an investigation into his own conduct following published reports that his priva...
Tom Campbell, the former Silicon Valley congressman and current dean of the business school at UC Berkeley, will join the facu...
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act amends a number of federal laws to restrict collection and use of genetic inform...
Litigator and ADR neutral Paul D. Gutierrez has been stationed on or near Pacific Avenue between Montgomery and Sansome street...
he high court scored a technical knockout against the Bush-Cheney strategy that has consistently ignored the right of the fede...
A conservative Christian group made an 11th-hour request to the California Court of Appeal Thursday to stop same-sex couples f...
Is a bowl of soup a meal? If so, is it sufficient payment for a pricey Armani suit? ...
A Superior Court judge has dismissed a challenge by two attorneys who claimed San Diego County's jury selection system underre...
The doll designer at the center of a fiercely litigated federal trial over rights to the popular Bratz line testified Thursday...
Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard Corp. has settled a patent dispute with Taiwan-based Acer Technology just before an Internatio...
Many copyright owners co-own their copyrights with others, or at least they thought so until a decision came down in a recent ...
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court: U.S. Citizens Can Face Trial in Iraq
By Lawrence Hurleyn
Although American citizens held overseas by the military do have habeas corpus rights in U.S. courts, the Supreme Court in a u...
Web Exclusive - Benjamin Field, a Santa Clara County prosecutor accused of withholding evidence in a rape case, now faces char...
Chief Judge Alex Kozinski should recuse himself from an ongoing obscenity trial after the revelation that he collected sexuall...
The co-chair of Heller Ehrman's Appeals and Strategy Practice Group, has joined Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in San Fran...
Monica Palacios, a Venice-based writer, enlisted the help of her lawyer friends to get charges of $10,000 for services she had...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Judge Rejects Telecom's Effort To Overturn Arbitration Award
By Greg Katzn
A federal judge has denied a California telecom company's bid to have a $7 million arbitration award against it overturned. ...
California Supreme Court
Court to Look At Privilege in Lawyer's Letter
By Laura Ernden
The California Supreme Court will decide whether a 22-page letter from an attorney to her client's corporate counsel is fair g...
Howard Fineman's superb first book, "The Thirteen American Arguments," bears witness: As discomforting and disputatious as our...
Enrollment in Homeland Security's E-Verify program is a gamble for some employers, write C. Matthew Schulz and Ute Krudewagen....
Firm Watch
Brocade Plans to Sue Up to 11 For Backdating, RICO Offenses
By Martin Bergn
The attorney for Brocade Communications Systems' special litigation committee informed a federal judge the company has identif...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Buyers and Sellers Should View Earn-Outs as a Tool of Last Resort
By Sara Libbyn
Earn-outs should be viewed as a tool of last resort and should not be entered into lightly, writes Scott Joachim. - Forum Colu...
California Supreme Court
Justice Who Backed Gay Marriage Will Preside Over One
By Laura Ernden
George Herzog and his partner Michael Nava, who is a staff attorney for state Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno, are plannin...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Kozinski Says Son May Have Uploaded Porn
By John Roemer
A Beverly Hills lawyer in an angry dispute with Chief Judge Alex Kozinski said he learned months ago that Kozinski's Web site ...