The American Inns of Court, the U.S. counterpart to the British legal mentoring organization, will add a new specialty inn nex...
Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - The legal community clings to some cruel stereotypes about lawyers who serve in courtroom role...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
From 'Rats' to Riches: Whistle-Blowers Deserve Increased Protection
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Mark Labaton - Whistle-blowers who report fraud are well-deserving of recent legislation offering them more ...
Michael J. Shepard, of Heller Ehrman in San Francisco, successfully represented a former JDS Uniphase CEO - one of the Daily J...
The National Association of Women Lawyers, the country's oldest women's bar organization, will be holding its midyear meeting ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
En Banc Takes Center Stage at 9th Circuit
By John Roemer
Most of the appellate court's unusually high number of reviews in January involve conservative results. ...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Revamping California's parole requirements would ease prison overcrowding while providing ...
SANTA ANA - James B. Bear, the managing partner of Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear for nearly 30 years, has died. Bear suff...
Longtime Los Angeles attorney Thomas P. Laffey has left Folger, Levin & Kahn to become general counsel of rental car giant...
In her family law courtroom, Alameda Commissioner Elizabeth A. Hendrickson draws on her experience in her own practice and as ...
SAN FRANCISCO - When the San Francisco Bay Guardian's editor and publisher, Bruce B. Brugmann, took the stand Tuesday in his n...
Web Exclusive - The California Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared sympathetic to a biotech company's arguments for why it shoul...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has dismissed the shareholder class action filed against one of the nation's largest mortgage fi...
Focus Column - By Keith A. Meyer - Obtaining insurance coverage for the pursuit of a counterclaim often involves navigating co...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Prospecting in the Silver State: Nevada Offers Plenty of Opportunity
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Jeffrey S. Galvin and Craig S. Denney - For lawyers looking to shake up their practices, opportunities to p...
Environmental
U.S. Judge Overrules Bush Exemption; Navy Must Limit Its Sonar Use
By Zack Vaneyckn
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge slapped aside a Bush administration move to overrule her recent order limiting the U.S. Navy's s...
Ellen Barry has assumed leadership of the group of attorneys in California's Central District who represent indigent defendant...
RIVERSIDE - When Ellen Weinfurtner got a notice in the mail informing her she'd be trying her civil case in an elementary scho...
Irwin Buter 1931-2008 - Los Angeles celebrity divorce lawyer Irwin Buter, whose clients included CBS executive Leslie Moonves,...
Focus Column - By Glenn Dickinson - Nontraditional sources such as color, sound and scent present unique trademarking issues. ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Winning Negotiations Requires the Powers of Persuasion
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Robert A. Steinberg - Advocates need more than oratory and logic to get their points across during settlemen...
Forum Column - By Christina Kotowski - Employers should handle employee complaints about sensitivities to perfumes and fragran...
Environmental
Judge Tosses Navy's Emergency Exemption for Sonar Testing
By Zack Vaneyckn
Web Exclusive - LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday batted aside a Bush administration move to overrule her recent order p...
Despite the credit crunch, January featured some massive deals, including the mending of the Oracle-BEA deal and possibly the ...
Law Practice
Trial Lawyers Behind Edwards Divide Between Clinton, Obama
By David Houstonn
WASHINGTON - When Democrat John Edwards withdrew from the presidential race last week, the trial lawyers' bar lost not only on...
Judges and Judiciary
In Big Reversal, $10,000 a Day Neutral Becomes Judge
By Alexa Hylandn
The next chapter in Louis M. Meisinger's life doesn't involve lying on a beach in Mexico, sipping margaritas. Instead, the 65-...
LOS ANGELES - A highly lauded class-action settlement reached last year between Blue Cross and policyholders, in which the ins...
Los Angeles Commissioner Henry J. Hall, who hears as many as 240 cases a day, works to minimize McJustice in his courtro...
SAN JOSE - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California was the first jurisdiction to adopt rules governing...
Von Crockett, Centinela Hospital’s chief executive officer, said the previous owners “were not able to go after the health pla...