Focus (Forum & Focus)
Returning Soldiers Deserve More Than Just Lip Service From Veterans Affairs
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Gordon P. Erspamer - The federal government's long history of broken promises to America's men and women in ...
Focus Column - By Nathan R. Scott - What do the standard for rehearing appeals and the final episode of "The Sopranos" have in...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - A cadre of billionaire philanthropists is attempting to salvage the education of Californi...
Alameda County Superior Court officials have announced that Judge Yolanda Northridge, who currently oversees the family courts...
When Congress first took up a bipartisan patent reform bill earlier this year, little controversy surrounded a proposal to sto...
Criminal
Settlement Is Latest Outcome in SEC's Backdating Investigations
By Craig Anderson
SAN FRANCISCO - The Securities and Exchange Commission continued its recent upsurge of backdating-related activity Wednesday, ...
LOS ANGELES - At the same time Congress is investigating whether the Justice Department is too driven by politics, the Bush ad...
Immigration
Judge OKs 1988 Order to Tell Salvadorans of Asylum Rights
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge said serious problems in the nation's detention centers convinced her to keep in place a decades...
Focus Column - By John B. Lough Jr. - The Supreme Court's decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear has insulated employers fro...
Forum Column - By Alan H. Friedenthal - The Pasadena Playhouse's production of "Can-Can" looks at the intersection of the cour...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A former court clerk has been charged with doctoring records to get traffic fines dismissed for her ex-husb...
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala D. Harris was elected Tuesday as a vice president of the National District Attorneys As...
Web Exclusive - Government regulators and environmentalists wrapped up six years of litigation against San Diego on Tuesday, f...
Film producer and distributor Summit Entertainment this week bolstered its corporate ranks with the hiring of David Friedman a...
LOS ANGELES - Kenneth E. Kulzick, a well-known entertainment attorney and pioneer in maritime law, died in late June. He had j...
SACRAMENTO - A tort reform group is launching a new weekly radio show Saturday to give citizens a chance to vent their anger a...
LOS ANGELES - Dissatisfied with county counsel's justification for keeping information on legal settlements secret, the Los An...
LOS ANGELES - A plaintiff who said that pesticide exposure on a Nicaraguan banana plantation left him sterile testified earlie...
Eugene Perryman's family was devastated when the 66-year-old retiree became the innocent victim of a drive-by shooting outside...
LOS ANGELES - A court-ordered audit of the Diocese of San Diego's finances found some local parishes "engaged in questionable"...
A new rule allowing attorneys to make mini opening statements to potential jurors helps refine the jury selection process and ...
Christopher Yeager never wanted to be a lawyer, let alone a judge, but his legal lineage proved impossible to resist. ...
An El Centro teenager caught in the crossfire of a gang shootout in his mobile home park can't sue his landlord for failing to...
Transactions
Not Your Father's Energy Deal - Sun and Wind Fuel Megawatt Transactions
By Jason Songn
Deals Column - By Jason Song - First wind, now the sun. Next the moon? Probably not, since nobody's figured out how to conver...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jury deliberations began Monday in the nation's first criminal backdating trial after the judge in the case re...
Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty will join Baker & McKenzie's Washington, D.C., office as a partner Sep...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Manners Maketh the Lawyer, Prevent Professional Embarrassment
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By K.C. Victor - Even if you haven't solicited business at a family member's funeral, these legal-etiquette tip...
LOS ANGELES - Bingham McCutchen's antitrust litigation department took another hit Monday when co-chair Alfred Pfeiffer Jr. an...
Focus Column - By Harry I. Johnson III - Those who claim that the ability to file a class action is a right an employee can't ...
Forum Column - By Kenneth W. Starr - The man who argued this term's now-legendary 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' case looks at what the v...