U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Newspaper Ordered to Pay $5.2 Million
By Zack Vaneyckn
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge awarded workers at a Chinese-language newspaper $5.2 million, the latest step in a four-year bat...
Focus Column - By Ken Ikari and Lilly Kim - The subprime mortgage meltdown has posed problems for mergers and acquisitions alr...
California Supreme Court
Court Blames Only Corporate Employer for Retaliation
By Laura Ernden
Justice Ming W. Chin led the majority in ruling 4-3 that individual supervisors or managers cannot be held personally liable f...
California Supreme Court
Supreme Court Will Hear Historic Same-Sex Marriage Case
By Laura Ernden
California's highest court will hear arguments today in one of its most politically and socially divisive cases of a generatio...
LOS ANGELES - Former Michael Jackson attorney Mark Geragos has won an $18 million judgment against a private jet company and i...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
'The International Judge' Sheds Light on Jurists Deciding the World's Cases
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By John A. Hall - A new book, "The International Judge," will be considered the benchmark study of the world be...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Hearing Begins in Veterans' Suit for Health Care
By David Houstonn
SAN FRANCISCO - When American troops started fighting in Iraq five years ago, the government predicted 2,900 of them would com...
Top Deals - Find out who's involved in the biggest deals. Read our monthly roundup to learn which lawyers and law firms made ...
Web Exclusive - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law...
U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has earned a reputation as a conservative jurist with a strong libertarian streak. ...
Government
City Council Grants $1 a Year Lease to Venice Literary Center
By Peter Matuszakn
LOS ANGELES - Tension ran high all morning Friday, Councilman Bill Rosendahl said, despite the City Council meeting's casual a...
Technology & Science
A Taste of CSI: Lawyers Can Take Scientific-Evidence Classes
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE — Whether it’s a personal injury lawsuit, in which plaintiffs say that certain chemicals made them sick, or a murder...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Mediation Requires Deal Makers, Not Decision Makers
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - Robert A. Steinberg - As habitual decision makers, former judges don’t always make the best mediators. ...
Forum Column - By Michael Moynagh - Proposition 98 will benefit a few wealthy landlords at the expense of millions of Californ...
Industry Watch - By Jonathan Vanian - Reed Smith's Northern California corporate & securities group practice sees a new ad...
Focus Column - By Parker Schweich and Mandana Massoumi - The time is ripe for companies to develop 10b5-1 trading plan policie...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Lifts Injunction Shutting Down Wikileaks.org Web Site
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Just weeks after a federal judge shut down Wikileaks.org, raising the ire of numerous free speech advocates, t...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors will present a methodical case against notorious sleuth Anthony Pellicano and will not call ...
Two advocacy groups are seeking an injunction to force the U.S. Deparment of Veteran Affairs to spend $60 million on medical c...
Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
New data released this week shows Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's judicial appointment process is screening out slightly more His...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge may sever a pair of counts from the wiretapping and conspiracy case against Anthony Pellicano, m...
California Supreme Court
High Court Strikes Blow Against Public Interest Litigators
By Laura Ernden
In a decision written by Justice Carlos Moreno, the California Supreme Court on Thursday struck a blow to public-interest liti...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Bay Guardian's loss of display advertising revenues is a result of downturns in the economy ...
LOS ANGELES - Arbitrators do not have to disclose potential conflicts until a judge assigns them to a case, a state appellate ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Panel Critical of Firm for Overbilling
By Laura Ernden
A state appeals court panel Thursday gently admonished a Los Angeles boutique law firm Thursday for trying to squeeze $46,000 ...
Verdicts
Police Officers Win $4.1 Million In 'Lobstergate' Retaliation Suit
By Ryan Olivern
LOS ANGELES - A jury has awarded $4.1 million to three members of the Long Beach Police Department who claimed they were retal...
Forum Column - By Nanci Clarence and Craig Bessenger - Laptop searches at airports and border crossings pose significant dilem...
SAN FRANCISCO - Zela "Zee" Claiborne speaks in an even, soothing tone. She listens to questions and appears to digest them tho...