A former Orange County deputy public defender has been convicted of stalking an ex-girlfriend and sending her harassing e-mail...
The White House has nominated San Diego County Superior Court Judge Michael N. Anello to be a judge on the U.S. District Court...
Judges and Judiciary
Misconduct Complaint Shines Light on Judicial Bottleneck
By John Roemer
Did it really take an anonymous prison inmate to alert the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that it had a critical problem wi...
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded more than $15 million in compensatory damages to a teenager who suffered permane...
The first personal injury trial against drugmaker Pfizer over its painkiller Bextra was postponed indefinitely, leading an exp...
Forum Column - By Kurt Melchior - Trial lawyers who get picked as jury members have a unique perspective during the process.
The Los Angeles office of Dykema has gained Monica J. Frascona as an associate in the firm's litigation department. To find ou...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Judicial Titans Clash in a War of Words
By John Roemer
U.S. Court of Appeals judges Richard Posner and Stephen Reinhardt are engaged in a war of words. Reinhardt takes aim at Posner...
Disgraced private investigator Anthony Pellicano told a jury Wednesday he was "effectively a lone ranger" who ran a successful...
Firm Watch
Artist to Receive Record Payout For Lost Downtown L.A. Mural
By Nicolas Taborekn
Artist Kent Twitchell will receive $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit he filed after workers painted over his mural that had gra...
Securities litigation partner George H. Brown is staying in Palo Alto but leaving Heller Ehrman's office for that of Gibson, D...
Judges and Judiciary
Ruling Clarifies Disclosure Rules for Arbitrators, Judges
By Laura Ernden
Judges and arbitrators can rest easy that they won't derail their cases by being candid about tangential connections to the pa...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Death Ruling Reveals Differing Views on the Role of Judges
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - The Supreme Court's recent death penalty ruling, with its multiple opinions, revealed how t...
Focus Column - By Michael C. McMahon - New legislation allows judges more discretion to grant or deny petitions for expungemen...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
VA Slow to Provide Mental Health Care for Iraq, Afghanistan Vets, Lawyer Says
By David Houstonn
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is engaged in a systemic violation of its duty to provide veterans with timely and app...
Web Exclusive - By Rebecca U. Cho - Bruce S. Ross, a veteran litigator who represents the estate of late celebrity Anna Nicole...
Sweeping patent reform legislation may have stalled in Congress, but lawmakers have pressed ahead in recent days with the remn...
Clayton Brennan's election to the bench in 2006 illustrates how far the onetime newcomer has come in adapting to Mendocino Cou...
The city of Half Moon Bay asked the Legislature Wednesday to rescue it from an $18 million screw-up by granting it a special e...
A bogus attorney convicted of practicing law after stealing the identity of a U.S. Army lawyer for the second time in a decade...
Intellectual Property
San Diego Now a 'Highly Desirable Pond' for Patent Practice
By Pat Broderick
Southern California is poised to generate a whole new area of intellectual properties - spurred by stem-cell research and pers...
Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott's Los Angeles office has added two associates. See our roundup of comings and goings at th...
In downtown Los Angeles, one long-time druggist laments that his ability to help shut-in seniors will be hampered. ...
Anthony Pellicano orchestrated a corrupt enterprise disguised as a legitimate private detective agency that broke the law to g...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Prison Medical Bill Passes First Committee Test
By Linda Rapattoni
A $6.9 billion plan by a court-appointed receiver to raise medical care in California's prisons to constitutional standards me...
Administrative/Regulatory
Bill Shifts Warning Burden to Drug Makers
By Cortney Fieldingn
The California Assembly's Judiciary Committee approved a bill Tuesday that would make drug companies solely responsible for wa...
The federal government's long-running stock options backdating investigation of Pixar Animation Studios, the other Steve Jobs-...
British-based Clyde & Co. has lured 10 Duane Morris attorneys to open a San Francisco office that will help bolster the la...
Focus Column - By Paul D. Fogel and Dennis Peter Maio - The 9th Circuit may need to get involved to clarify a court case that ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
When Talks Reach An Impasse, Mediators Work Their Magic
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Victoria Pynchon - In a perfect world, our social evolution would keep pace with our technological progress,...