State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Group Plans Events to Draw Minorities
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - If all goes as planned, minority summer associates just might leave their hearts in San Francisco this year. ...
Litigation
Judge in Bar-Review Case Questions High Plaintiffs Incentives
By Jennifer Hammn
Web Exclusive - Saying he was concerned about financial incentives that named plaintiffs may receive in a class action, U.S. D...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
In Wall Street Win, Justices Bar Two Class Actions
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Handing a significant victory to Wall Street, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday barred two antitrust class actions...
Law Practice
City Attorney Says He'll Go to Civil Court to Oust Supervisor
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - Going to court turned out to be the only option for City Attorney Dennis Herrera to try to oust a member of th...
LOS ANGELES - A judge has held a former defense attorney for Phil Spector in coercive contempt of court Monday for refusing to...
Entertainment & Sports
Insurer Can Sue De Niro Over Statement That He Was Healthy
By D. Heimpel
LOS ANGELES - An attempt to dismiss a $1.8 million lawsuit claiming that actor Robert De Niro lied on a health insurance form ...
WASHINGTON - Congress looks increasingly likely to take action to prevent federal prosecutors from requesting attorney-client-...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
State Court's Traffic-Stop Opinion Falls
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - In a unanimous reversal of California's highest court, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that car passengers ha...
Judicial Profile
After 20 Years, Justice's Masterpiece May Be His Courthouse
By Laura Ernden
Now in his 20th year on the 5th District Court of Appeal in Fresno, Presiding Justice James Ardaiz has spent the last couple o...
Superior Court Judge Donal B. Donnelly's dreams of the foreign service became the reality of judicial service in isolated ...
No one ever said saving the Earth would be simple. Just witness the tussle over a plan to expand a Northern California refiner...
Forum Column - By James Ham - Lawyers who want to accept credit cards face a tangled web of regulations. ...
Robert L. Ivey, a Holland & Knight lawyer, handled the asylum case of a surgeon in Iraq who served American forces as a tr...
RIVERSIDE - To help reduce Riverside County's backlog of criminal cases, state Chief Justice Ronald George said Friday that he...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge granted a government request to postpone the deadline for dismissing charges against defendants ...
Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - LOS ANGELES - Soon after moving to Los Angeles, Petra Korn realized the area, home to numer...
Industry Watch - By Peter B. Matuszak - Not many lawyers can lay claim to negotiating both the big deals of the late-1990s tec...
Focus Column - By Gary Shapiro - A new Supreme Court ruling has important implications for the enforcement of American patents...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Undermining Pregnant Women’s Rights Is Part of Bush’s Legal Legacy
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Sylvia A. Law - Judicial holdings that pregnancy has nothing to do with gender have consequences that are an...
Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - Friends 30 years out of law school, Thomas M. Gosselin and Nancy J. Geenen again have the o...
Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - Stoel Rives has set an ambitious goal of quadrupling the size of its capita...
Industry Watch - By Peter B. Matuszak - LOS ANGELES - Anticipating a demand for legal advice on new, stricter environmental ru...
LOS ANGELES - A former attorney was convicted Friday of embezzling $150,000 from the trust of an elderly woman who once served...
The case of eight former black-power activists accused of killing a San Francisco police officer in 1971 is headed back to cou...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - LOS ANGELES - Anticipating the end of the private equity boom, Steptoe & Johnson tapp...
SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors may have some explaining to do about why they nearly let a San Francisco pediatrician who had sex ...
On the Move
Disbarments, Suspensions and more.
Literature was Esteban Hernandez's first choice, and the San Diego judge might have become a professor had he not found the la...
David Mazurek had intended a career in football, but found a professional niche prosecuting crimes. Now he's making calls from...