Judge Donna L. Crandall is known for her willingness to teach new attorneys as well as the youth who come before her in juveni...
Disbarments - Juvenal Federico Agravante, 49, Long Beach (March 6) - Agravante was disbarred after failing to comply with Rule...
Law Practice
Shifting Focus to Sacramento, Stoel Rives Trims Its S.F. Staff
By Jennifer Hammn
SACRAMENTO - Stoel Rives told its 14 San Francisco lawyers Monday that it would cut its staff there and beef up its Sacramento...
Government
Civil Rights Section Chief Will Leave U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. for Howrey
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - Mary Andrues will leave her post as the chief of the public corruption and civil rights section of the Los Angel...
Government
Justices Seek White House Brief on Law About Funds for Anti-Union Activities
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court asked the Bush administration Monday to weigh in on a California law that forbids private ...
LOS ANGELES - David F. Morgan, a longtime partner at the downtown law firm of Barton, Klugman & Oetting, died April 11 fro...
Forum Column - By Nora Quinn - It's late, and a client calls you in a panic. Is he asking about statutory interpretation? Not ...
Focus Column - By Ahsan A. Shaikh - Video games are merging with movies and music, creating a brew that is a big challenge for...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County's Bernard E. Witkin Law Library will hold two events in May to help attorneys make the most of ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Again Denies Unruh Exemption in Religious-School Expulsion Case
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County Superior Court judge has moved forward a case with potentially far-reaching impact in which two...
LOS ANGELES - Kirkland & Ellis announced Monday the addition of two white-collar criminal defense attorneys to the firm's ...
Judges and Judiciary
Governor Puts Seven New Judges on Benches in Three Counties
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed seven new judges - in Fresno, San Diego and Riverside counties. Four ...
Deals Column - By Jason Song - LOS ANGELES - The mergers-and-acquisitions market's in fine shape at the moment. Even so, it's ...
Real Estate/Development
San Diego Catholic Nonprofit Faces Probe of Real Estate Assets
By Sandra Hernandezn
Plaintiffs attorneys will ask a bankruptcy judge to annul all real estate and cash transfers by the Roman Catholic Diocese of ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared unlikely to extend federal minimum-wage protections and overtime pay to home heath a...
Plaintiffs attorneys won a major victory Monday when the California Supreme Court held employers accountable for up to four ye...
The Bush administration is proposing to grant legal immunity to the phone companies locked in litigation in a San Francisco co...
Working as a driver for a Superior Court judge changed the course of Teresa Bennett’s life. These days she drives a family law...
Jeffrey P. Lustman, a private investigator and lawyer, is running for the State Bar board of governors because of what he call...
Litigation
$37.5 Million Verdict Stands in San Diego Land Deal Gone Bad
By Jennifer Hammn
SANTA ANA - A judge has upheld a $37.5 million verdict against the Irvine Co. for sabotaging a young development company's cha...
Industry Watch - By Don J. DeBenedictis - SANTA ANA - The Orange County Bar Association has selected Trudy Levindofske, the or...
Litigation
New Treatise in Town: 'Patry on Copyright' Takes on Melville, 9th Circuit
By Eric Berkowitzn
Forum Column - By Lincoln D. Bandlow - Move over Nimmer -- here comes Patry, with a megatreatise on copyright law that threate...
Industry Watch - By Gabe Friedman - LOS ANGELES - Late Wednesday afternoon, Jan Handzlik received a fitting cap to a week of h...
Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental attorney David R. Goodman had teamed on cases with R...
Industry Watch - By Andrew Harmon - LOS ANGELES - Loeb & Loeb has added three more lawyers to its expanding Century City o...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Feds Plan to Retry 'Guru of Ganja' for Growing Medi-Pot
By Amelia Hansenn
Despite multiple setbacks, the federal government is not relenting in its prosecution of a Northern California medical-marijua...
Focus Column - By Jeff Kichaven - When both sides are invested in choosing a mediator, the chances for a good result go up. ...
Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - Intellectual-property lawyer Vera M. Elson joined McDermott Will & Emery in 2001 from Wi...
Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - Boston-based Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo has continued its e...
Low-income and disabled California residents facing state tax appeals can get help from law students at Golden Gate University...