Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - When premier litigation firm O'Neill, Lysaght & Sun, also known as "the Brians," shoo...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - In a bid to strengthen its West Coast ties to the life sciences industry, Bingham McCutch...
Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - Individuals with insurance policies should be aware of how "reserves" and "reinsurance" can...
Forum Column - By Cynthia Valenzuela - As one Arizona school district looks poised to implement the Supreme Court's recent sch...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Without Reform, California's Juvenile Justice System Will Condemn Youth to Bleak Future
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Michael Bien and Gay Grunfeld - A ruling from a U.S. District Court in Sacramento is mandating that the stat...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Veteran patent litigator James Doroshow became the second partner in the last month lured...
Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Bet Tzedek, the free legal services organization whose name means "House of Justice" in Heb...
Criminal
Church Agrees to Pay $6 Million for Orange County Abuse Claims
By Sandra Hernandezn
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange has agreed to pay $6.68 million to four women who said teachers sexually abused them whil...
Law Practice
With Bill Shelved, Right-to-Die Group Shifts Focus to Advice
By David Houstonn
After two years of unsuccessful lobbying for a euthanasia law in California, a group called Compassion & Choices has decid...
SACRAMENTO - The California Legislature wants to treat Marilyn Monroe like a piece of property. ...
Praised by colleagues as bright, articulate and fair, Judge Lori A. Fournier overcame courtroom shyness by focusing on the pri...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
On the Move
When summer months put a damper on her ski patrol job, Judge Judith Meyer turned to law school. ...
Employment Column - By Robin Wofford and Leonid Zilberman -The California Supreme Court has lightened the load on employers by...
When a federal judge in San Diego sanctioned Qualcomm for gross misconduct in a patent-infringement dispute against rival Broa...
VENTURA - Retired Ventura County Superior Court Judge Joe D. Hadden doesn't plan to slow down anytime soon. The 74-year old, ...
Los Angeles litigation and transactional specialists Dreier Stein & Kahan announced a merger with business litigation and ...
SACRAMENTO - Three weeks before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger addressed the United Nations to tout California's ambitious plan to...
LOS ANGELES - Two California lawmakers said Thursday they would consider forcing the Department of Homeland Security to adopt ...
A Legal Aid Society program is helping Marines in need of free legal advice at the Twentynine Palms base in San Bernardino Cou...
U.S. Supreme Court
Rules for Unpublished Opinions Violate Due Process, Suit Says
By David Houstonn
An Orange County law firm sued the California Supreme Court and an appellate division Thursday, contending rules barring lawye...
The Los Angeles City Council has voted to ignore the advice of City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and will not appeal a court ruli...
Verdicts
City Will Pay $7.8 Million to Settle Suit Over Fire at Studio
By Alexa Hylandn
LOS ANGELES - Flames engulfed a film and television production building five years ago after a Los Angeles Department of Water...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Numbers Don't Match the Rhetoric on Upcoming Supreme Court Voting Rights Case
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By David B. Muhlhausen - Though critics charge that voter identification laws disenfranchise blacks and Hispani...
Forum Column - By John A. Hall - A UN tribunal charged with bringing justice to the perpetrators of genocide in Cambodia is lo...
Focus Column - By Joshua Gratch - One family's Court of Appeal fight to win back its repossessed car has led to a wholesale ch...
SANTA ANA - A former San Francisco lawyer and financial tycoon who helped bring Pamela Anderson's sex tape to the public has b...
Focus Column - By Susan Eandi, Ute Krudewagen and Jonathan Isaacs - New legal standards for employees in China will dramatical...
A federal judge ruled the lawyers who represented Qualcomm cannot use information protected by attorney-client obligations to ...