ADR Column - By Alexander S. Polsky - The mediation process can often be fraught with emotional considerations that lead clien...
LOS ANGELES - In a rare criminal denaturalization case, a Santa Ana jury has convicted a man born in Afghanistan of lying on h...
A ship that hit a tower of the San Francisco Bay Bridge on Wednesday and fouled local waters with 58,000 gallons of bunker oil...
This week, top officials from Emeryville-based LeapFrog Enterprises were scheduled to be somewhere no California executive wan...
California Supreme Court
Oil Companies Push to Publish Favorable Ruling
By Laura Ernden
SAN FRANCISCO - After the California Supreme Court dropped from its docket last week a multimillion-dollar toxic-tort suit bec...
As pandemonium reigned around them, Steve Finn and Brock Gowdy had a rule: keep smiling. It was January 2003, and the two part...
WASHINGTON - A key witness in the lawsuit accusing phone giant AT&T of unlawfully cooperating with the government's survei...
Focus Column - By Michael L. Fox - California will have to reform its jury instructions if it hopes to get toxic-tort cases un...
Forum Column - By Adam Thierer - Those who tout regulations that would force cable television companies to provide channels a ...
LOS ANGELES - Dole Food Co. was aware that a pesticide it used on banana plantations in Nicaragua could harm its workers, but ...
SAN JOSE - An in-house lawyer at Apple who was fired last year for drafting minutes of a fictitious board meeting that awarded...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Miss Congeniality, Esquire - How to Restore Civility in the Courtroom
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - What every litigator needs is a guide to getting through the day in court without beating oppo...
Recruiting Column - By Sandford A. Lechtick - Today's legal environment is marked by heavy competition among firms looking to ...
Government
Proposed Rules Would Rein In Political Legal Defense Funds
By David Houstonn
The state's political watchdog agency is about to crack the whip on legal defense funds it suspects some lawmakers may be usin...
When it comes to transactional legal work, Los Angeles is a middle-market town. Few large corporations are headquartered in th...
LOS ANGELES - When Casey Sobhani, a real estate senior counsel at Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif, got the call t...
WASHINGTON - In a case that could significantly affect the scope of future arbitration agreements, a highly engaged U.S. Supre...
Lawmakers leaned on Yahoo Inc. Tuesday to settle a lawsuit brought by the families of Chinese journalists imprisoned because t...
Firm Watch
Senior City Attorney in L.A. Is Joining Latham Land-Use Team
By Peter Matuszakn
LOS ANGELES - A top lawyer in the Los Angeles city attorney's office is departing to join the land-use practice at Latham &...
David F. Pike, 68, a longtime U.S. Supreme Court reporter for the Daily Journal, died Monday of a heart attack at his home in ...
Michael Eisner's Torante Group was co-purchaser of Topps Co. The former Disney CEO's group, along with Madison Dearborn Partne...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
As Congress Considers Education Reform, What Role Should Testing Play?
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - With the No Child Left Behind act up for reauthorization, lawmakers pursuing effective ref...
Focus Column - By Bruce Wessel - As the Hollywood writers' strike continues, we take a look at suits over the theft of ideas ...
Forum Column - By Suzanne M. Blonder and Emily Werth - The California State Bar is perilously close to making a decision that ...
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court Divides Over Firing of Medical-Marijuana User
By Laura Ernden
SACRAMENTO - A clearly divided California Supreme Court grappled Tuesday with the sticky problem of how employers should deal ...
Corporate
Suits Aimed at Drug Makers Seek Overtime Pay for Salespeople
By David Houstonn
SAN FRANCISCO - Prescription drug makers and their lawyers may be feeling better now that two federal judges have tossed lawsu...
LOS ANGELES - When it comes to the current writers' strike, not all entertainment practices are created equal. Industry insid...
The jury that returned a $3.3 million verdict against Dole Food Co. and Dow Chemical Co. on Monday went back into deliberation...
Following the Dodgers put Ventura Judge Henry J. Walsh on the road to the bench, where he umpires with ease. ...
LOS ANGELES - Doron Weinberg, a highly regarded criminal attorney in the San Francisco legal community, may be the new defense...