LOS ANGELES - Plea negotiations in class-action lawyer William S. Lerach's case have been complicated by his insistence on a b...
Employment Column - By Craig J. Ackermann - Employers that don't adequately ensure meal breaks for their employees are beginni...
An heiress fading into her mid-30s. Another heiress, young and on top of the world. A nightclub fight between the two that led...
Forum Column - By Jon Coupal - Hand-wringing is accompanying the governor's cuts to social spending in the most recent state b...
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw's Los Angeles corporate practice partner Kenneth E. Kohler, who left his longtime firm for Morris...
SANTA ANA - While liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has a dour view of the U.S. health care system, a panel of Orang...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
New E-Discovery Rules Could Unduly Burden Business, Threaten Privacy
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Corynne McSherry - A ruling out of California's Central District has burdened digital technologies with more...
Focus Column - By Ruben J. Garcia - As Labor Day arrives, the past year's developments in organized labor show a strengthening...
Richard E. Best, a retired San Francisco County Superior Court commissioner who spends his days as a discovery referee, is kno...
SAN FRANCISCO - Key government environmental guarantees that have helped drive development planning in huge swatches of Califo...
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Vernon Nakahara is part of a special team of out-of-county judges recently sent to Riversi...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Workers Win Major Ruling In California
By Laura Ernden
The California Supreme Court handed workers a huge victory Thursday, ruling that employers generally can't prevent them from b...
With Christopher Lundy Campbell's background and experience as a world-class Olympic wrestling medalist, it is no surprise ath...
Of her varied assignments on the bench, Ventura Judge Rebecca Riley prefers the good that she can do in criminal cases. ...
Environmental
Environmentalists, Unions Try to Limit Mexican Trucks in U.S.
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists and labor unions raced to the courthouse Wednesday to block trucks from Mexico from joining ...
Government
Appellate Court Backs Schwarzenneger’s Authority to Reject Parole Decisions
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - Disagreeing with half a dozen earlier appellate opinions, the 2nd District Court of Appeal has ruled that Gov. Arn...
SAN JOSE - Former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. Chief Executive Officer Gregory Reyes will not get a new trial, a federa...
Forum Column - By Richard H. Close and Susy Forbath - A bill before the California State Legislature will erode the one remain...
The jury has yet to get the murder case of Phil Spector, but the famed record producer has launched a pre-emptive strike, addi...
Government
Labor Groups Sue to Block Immigration Crackdown on Employers
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - In a pre-emptive move, labor unions and civil rights groups sued the Bush administration Wednesday to stop feder...
SAN FRANCISCO - After 50 years of the California Judges Association rendering ethics opinions to the state's judges, there's a...
Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Karen Brown - Two recent 6th District Court of Appeal decisions are changing the sta...
Large Firms
Lerach Says He Will Retire at End of Week to Resolve Investigation
By Gabe Friedmann
William S. Lerach, the controversial plaintiffs’ lawyer who helped transform private-shareholder litigation into a major field...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Jerry Brown, fresh from a bruising fight with Republican lawmakers over his office's environm...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Bush Justice Department's Civil Rights Claims Don't Withstand Scrutiny
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Despite boasting of legal breakthroughs, the administration has witnessed an increas...
Government
Tort Reformers Withdraw Initiative From Ballot as Strategic Move
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - Tort reformers and the business lobby have withdrawn a June ballot proposal that would have made it difficult for...
SAN JOSE - For the first time, the Securities and Exchange Commission has charged an in-house counsel in connection with backd...
Focus Column - By Kenneth M. Walczak and Ernest Galvan - The state of paralegal billing may not be as perilous as you've been ...
Lewis Davis' hobby of deciphering American Indian petroglyphs is a natural offshoot of the Contra Costa judge's analytical jur...
Judicial Profile
Most Lawyers Never See Jurist They Consider No. 1 in Post-Judgment Matters
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - Even after Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Murray B. Gross granted a bank's motion to assign righ...