FORUM COLUMN - By Areva D. Martin - An education lawyer is not impressed with legislation designed to improve school performan...
WASHINGTON - Idaho Judge N. Randy Smith is a step closer to taking a place on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after the ...
For its new general counsel, embattled Hewlett-Packard has turned to a former federal prosecutor and veteran litigator. ...
Judges and Judiciary
When Law Enforcement Officers Make Honest Mistakes
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Scott Wm. Davenport - The 9th Circuit is divided on whether the police violated the Constitution detaining a...
Judges and Judiciary
San Diego Superior Court Judge Was an Avid Sports Fan
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge J. Michael Bollman, who used his characteristically friendly manner to bring disputants in ci...
Discipline
Judges' Annual Gift Allowance Gets Inflation Boost to $350
By Amy Yarbroughn
As part of a routine adjustment, the state's Commission on Judicial Performance has increased the allowable value of gifts tha...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Les Lo Baugh - The LEED Green Building Rating System is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, co...
Trusts & Estates
Ex-Model's Death Raises Questions About Substitute for Estate
By Andrew Harmon
LOS ANGELES - With the unexpected death of stripper-turned-icon Anna Nicole Smith and continuing litigation a certainty, the $...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego are asking a Court of Appeal to stop a string of civil sex-a...
In a ruling that says public officials can't claim they were just following legal advice when they break the law, the state's ...
Can a group of men who call others of the same religion a disgrace while attacking them be guilty of a hate crime? ...
FOCUS COLUMN -By Gary A. Watt - A patchwork of decisions construing arbitration agreements has made the right to contract unc...
FORUM COLUMN - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Benjamin Davidson - The California Supreme Court is poised to decide whether there ...
The Daily Journal's annual list of top defense verdicts. ...
LOS ANGELES - More change might be afoot for Dallas-based Jenkens & Gilchrist. The firm shuttered its Pasadena and Washing...
Judges and Judiciary
State Senate Judiciary Led by A Freshman - in Name Only
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Longtime lobbyists from the legal establishment know Ellen Corbett as the chair of the Assembly Judiciary Committ...
'20 to Watch' List Is Cast From a White, Male Mold ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge seemed skeptical Wednesday of a bid by defense attorneys to dismiss the bulk of indictments ag...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bernard Knapp, a civil litigator most recently with the Contra Costa county counsel's office, has been named a...
Judges and Judiciary
Editor of California Lawyer Will Leave for State Courts
By John Roemer
Peter Allen, who as California Lawyer magazine's longtime editor-in-chief led the monthly to win numerous prizes for editorial...
Corporate
Branching Out: Crisis Management Finds Home in Defense Firms
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - For some corporate law firms, the days of just saying no to the media are over. Full-service practice groups tha...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to go back to the drawing boards following January's bombshell ru...
FORUM COLUMN - By Elaine Elinson - Nearly a century before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, Charlotte Brown ...
Judges and Judiciary
Last-Minute Negotiations Close Courts' Security Gap for Now
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - Though an immediate crisis has been averted, rising security costs could pose a serious problem for the Los Ange...
SAN JOSE - Hewlett-Packard's purchase of a company whose executives were accused of backdating stock options has killed a shar...
Securities
Attorney Questions Mail-Fraud Charges Facing Former Brocade Chief
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - The lawyer defending the former chief of Brocade Communications Systems Inc. against criminal options-backdating ch...
Law Practice
Next Big Thing: Smaller, Less-Legal, More-Portable Libraries
By Emma Dewaldn
LOS ANGELES - The law library isn't what it once was. It's smaller: Digital formats have reduced the vast expanse of books. ...
Government
Justice Official Testifies Prosecutors Were Ousted for Performance
By Hurley
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration tried again Tuesday to put an innocent spin on the recent resignation of seven U.S. attor...
The largest certified class of workers in history can go forward with a sexual discrimination lawsuit against the world's larg...
LOS ANGELES - With the federal criminal investigation into misdated stock options at KB Home continuing, former CEO and Chairm...