FOCUS COLUMN - By Richard Chernick - There is no more contentious issue in arbitration than the entitlement to and proper scop...
Family
Judicial Settlement Conference Can Defuse Costly Nasty Custody Fights
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Lynn Duryee - The child custody trial is a stressful, unrewarding experience for litigants, lawyers and judg...
SAN DIEGO - Just the thought of seeing "Apocalypto," Mel Gibson's violent new epic about the decline of the Mayan empire, is e...
Environmental
2006 Hits a High-Water Mark for California River Restoration
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - In the storied, sometimes violent and always complicated history of California's relationship with water, 2006...
Technology & Science
Judge in Santa Clara Awards Firm Damages of $2.8 Billion
By Gabe Friedmann
A Santa Clara County judge awarded $2.8 billion in damages to a Hong Kong company Wednesday after its contracts with a Bay Are...
FORUM COLUMN - By Nora Quinn - I'm sitting in a courtroom in the Mosk Courthouse, and there is a lawyer talking who looks like...
LOS ANGELES - Before Jose Beas was arrested, he worked in a factory that made car rims. Before he was accused of being a child...
Elizabeth Ann Brem, a 35-year-old Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner who followed an incredible path of legal achievement fro...
EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By John T. Hansen - In a decision that could have far-reaching effects, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...
Entertainment & Sports
Playing Three Soccer Games a Week Fits Right Into Her Life
By Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Somewhere between meeting quotas for billable hours and litigating business matters, Patricia Lee Bonheyo find...
SAN FRANCISCO - And you thought bootlegging was a rock concert phenomenon. Not so, says Cydney Tune. ...
SAN JOSE - Apple Computer's new general counsel couldn't have asked for a more exciting job: He's now a leading decision maker...
SUSPENSIONS
Whether it is ballet dancing, practicing aikido, sea kayaking or clinging to a wall 50 feet from the ground with just fingers ...
Appellate Practice
Panel Blasts Judge for Calling Appellate Court 'Kangaroos'
By Laura Ernden
A warning for trial judges: Don't call your superiors kangaroos. The Sacramento-based 3rd District Court of Appeal blasted a S...
FORUM COLUMN - By Eric M. Acker and David C. Doyle- Even in complex patent cases, a good guy-bad ad guy story still worked wit...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Bay Area man who claims police informants entrapped him into dealing methamphetamine by preying on his menta...
Firm Watch
After Politics, Legislators Make Soft Landing at Large Law Firms
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - With the 109th Congress in the books and substantial changeover after the midterm elections, more than a few law...
LOS ANGELES - A private memorial service is pending for retired Los Angeles County deputy public defender Audrey Ezratty Bresl...
LOS ANGELES - The board of directors for Children's Law Center of Los Angeles has chosen a four-member management team to run ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Laura J. Mazel - A little planning ahead can help businesses navigate new international travel restrictions....
Zoning, Planning and Use
Attorneys Direct Thespians Through Land-Use Drama
By Max Follmer
LOS ANGELES - After years spent in an often-tense face-off with a downtown developer over control of the Los Angeles Theater C...
Judges and Judiciary
With a New Face on High Court, Justices Stay Mostly in Sync
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - With Chief Justice Ronald M. George marking his 10th anniversary at the helm of the California Supreme Court, ...
LOS ANGELES - Fresh from the defeat in November of a divisive ballot measure that would have overhauled eminent-domain laws in...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Antonio R. Sarabia II - The details of the Hewlett-Packard settlement with the Calfiornia Attorney General w...
SAN BERNARDINO - A state appeals court has tentatively thrown out a $3 million libel judgment against a Hesperia-based newspap...
High-Stakes Attorney In Courtroom Is a Hard-Driving Yogi On the Yoga Mat ...
Judges and Judiciary
Hearing Evidence Isn't Necessarily Considering It
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Michael Halley - Controversy over the instructions given to California jurors for weighing mitigating eviden...
Transactions
American Apparel, Frederick's of Hollywood Each Merge With a New York Firm for Public Access
By David Houstonn
DEALS COLUMN - By Rick Kennedy - Just in time for Christmas, deal makers last week provided yet more proof sex sells, as a pai...
LOS ANGELES - A. Barry Cappello, managing partner of Santa Barbara's Cappello & Noel, and his wife, Lori Cappello, donated...