SACRAMENTO - Flex Your Power, California's energy efficiency marketing and outreach campaign, is calling for entries to its fi...
USC biologist Martin Pera is waiting on a research grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Anti-abortion...
Technology & Science
Backdating Indictment Looms For McAfee's Fired Top Counsel
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - The former general counsel of McAfee Inc. is expected to be charged with mail fraud this month in what would be the...
Probate
Making Trusts Work for Children While Protecting Family Values
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - You can't take your money with you, but you can take steps to make sure your kids don't burn through their inh...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Kirk A. Pasich - The appellate courts have been busy with insurance coverage issues. An expert has a look at...
LOS ANGELES - Law firm partners are always talking about the thrill of growing an office. ...
LOS ANGELES - Five years ago, attorney David Fleming helped in an unsuccessful bid to divorce the San Fernando Valley from the...
LOS ANGELES - The Beverly Connection, a low-slung shopping arcade on La Cienega Boulevard, has long been the ugly stepsister o...
SAN FRANCISCO - No one should have thought that taking an iconic creature like the bald eagle off the nation's endangered spec...
DEALS COLUMN - By Jason Song - As shareholders are becoming more vocal, and litigious, to squeeze the maximum amount of return...
SAN FRANCISCO - California's newest appellate justice just finished a decade presiding over a hectic calendar in Alameda Count...
Interim Indeterminate Sentencing Is Risky
SAN FRANCISCO - First-year associates at San Francisco's Keker & Van Nest can expect heftier pay checks. ...
Entertainment & Sports
Lawyer/Sports Agent Kicks Off Dual Role at L.A. Firm
By Andrew Harmon
LOS ANGELES - As a young law-school graduate and wet-behind-the-ears sports agent, Mark Bloom was in a jam. ...
LOS ANGELES - It has been a year since U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Chooljian swapped a position as special counsel in the...
Seeing defendants sent to prison for life under the state’s three-strikes law after committing petty crimes, criminal-defense ...
Litigation
State Assembly Panel to Consider Access to Justice for Poor and Disabled
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - California's judges and lawyers often point out the increasing numbers of self-represented litigants that stream ...
LOS ANGELES - Two seasoned media and entertainment partners in Leopold, Petrich & Smith have set their sights on another f...
Personal Injury & Torts
Pro Bono Panel Problems Discourage Settlement
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Debra B. Self - What do you get for your three free hours of mediation? Not much when no one takes it seriou...
FORUM COLUMN - By Nora Quinn - Settlement. The word is pure ambrosia for most litigators, so why are so many clients unhappy? ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Protests Prompt ABA to 'Put Teeth Back in' Judicial Ethics Code
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Facing mounting opposition from judicial and disciplinary groups, the American Bar Association has reworded pr...
LOS ANGELES - Most young attorneys only dream of the inside of a courtroom. At the outset of his legal career, Phillip A. Bake...
A federal judge has invalidated the patent on a $3 billion drug, concluding that French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis "i...
Bremer Whyte named Jeremy Johnson partner in its Newport Beach office. Johnson focuses his practice on business and real estat...
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Elizabeth A. White Deck is known as a master of efficiency in overcoming impasses in c...
Determining that a key witness lied to police 22 years ago, a judge on Thursday reversed the murder conviction of a 40-year-ol...
LOS ANGELES - Not many 69-year-olds run five miles a day, but on most days, retired Judge David Perez traverses the hills near...
Two years ago, Baker & Hostetler announced plans to grow the firm's downtown Los Angeles office. Now, it looks like those ...
EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By John A. Vogt - Your client's workers may look and act like independent contractors, but a recent case s...
FORUM COLUMN - By Areva D. Martin - An education lawyer is not impressed with legislation designed to improve school performan...