Labor/Employment
Wage-and-Hour Suits Work Their Way to Tech Companies
By David Houstonn
It was one prediction Ted Borromeo wishes he had wrong. With stockbrokers, pharmaceutical salespeople and other white-collar w...
The California Supreme Court on Monday opened the door to defense attorneys sharing limited information gleaned from police of...
Forum Column - By John Poyner - While recent legislation intended to prevent wrongful convictions in California was well-inten...
The second criminal backdating case against a former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. executive went before a jury Monday, ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Punitive Judgment Against Exxon May Lead to Worse Corporate Behavior
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By William L. Troutman - Failure to consider the oil company's efforts to compensate those hurt by the groundin...
With scant physical evidence and no witnesses, it took San Bernardino prosecutors three trials to get William Richards convict...
Focus Column - By Oliver Massmann - Though it's only been a few decades since the end of the nation's devastating war, Vietnam...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a legal challenge to San Diego County's welfare policy that requires applicants to c...
Law Practice
Court Sides With Plaintiff Over Ambiguous Settlement Offer
By Laura Ernden
An Orange County legal assistant who sued her law firm for sexual harassment settled last year for a relatively small sum: $35...
On the Move
Forum Column - By Bruce J. Einhorn - The long-awaited victory of the "L.A. Eight" doesn't represent a victory for just immigra...
Focus Column - By Dolores A. Carr - Readers will learn about the legal and ethical restraints on the people’s representative. ...
Industry Watch - By Devan McClaine - Earthjustice, a nonprofit law firm that represents environmental groups in cases all ove...
Take this test on the latitude available to prosecutors, for MCLE credit, after you read Dolores A. Carr's Focus column, below...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
America's Commitment to Veterans Must Last Beyond Their Homecoming
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Although respect for active-duty American soldiers is noble, it means little when the publ...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - The deep pockets of law firms are needed to aid the federal government in developing the ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
In Recent Books, Centrist Justice Bears the Brunt of Criticism
By kristinakg@kgmllp.com
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy may have reached new heights of influence as the U.S. Supreme Court's most powerful justice, but if...
WASHINGTON - Yahoo Inc. may have settled litigation alleging that the Internet company provided the Chinese government with pr...
Heather L. Rosing plans to push professionalism and civility when she takes the helm of the San Diego County Bar Association o...
The August 2006 publication of "The Path of Constitutional Law," by Charles Kelso and his son, appears to be the first compreh...
Law Practice
ACLU Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Riverside Ballot Case
By Martin Bergn
In a case closely watched by California cities, the American Civil Liberties Union Wednesday asked the state Supreme Court to ...
Focus Column - By Melody Mosley and Craig Simon - Victims of the recent California wildfires can take heart in a number of sta...
Employment Column - By Mandana Massoumi and Sarah Maier - The recent explosion in employment law suits makes this survey of re...
Verdicts
Defect-Case Mediator Looks for 'Global Picture'
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho
Mediator Ross R. Hart has the difficult task of keeping his head when dealing with 40 parties - or more - in construction-defe...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Injustice of Mandatory Minimums Has No Expiration Date
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Julie Stewart and Molly Gill - The U.S. Sentencing Commission's decision to decrease disparities between cra...
State Bar & Bar Associations
New President Helps Fill Void for Asian-American Lawyers
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho
Helen B. Kim, a securities and commercial litigation partner in Baker Hostetler's Los Angeles office, has become the new presi...
After a long lull in Chapter 11 work amid the mergers and acquisitions boom of the last several years, law firms are starting ...
Forum Column - By Leslie Harris and Jim Dempsey - A recent Rio de Janeiro conference on governmental control of the Internet r...
A company that raises money for the Democratic National Committee and other liberal political groups has acknowledged that it ...
Labor/Employment
Supreme Court Will Decide Legality of California Union Law
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will decide the legality of a California law that forbids privat...