LOS ANGELES - A. Barry Cappello, managing partner of Santa Barbara's Cappello & Noel, and his wife, Lori Cappello, donated...
Law Practice
Legal World Benefits When Judges, Attorneys Listen to One Another
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Lynn Duryee - Two years ago, as I was poised to begin my tour of duty as the Marin County Superior Court's f...
Intellectual Property
Thorough Exit Interviews Save Intellectual Property
By Andrew Harmon
LOS ANGELES - It's an obvious maxim for any business: Fail to protect your intellectual property, and you may as well give com...
Labor/Employment
McKesson Wins Reduction of $19 Million Verdict for Firing
By Laura Ernden
An appellate court on Tuesday slashed a record-setting $19 million jury verdict against health-care giant McKesson for firing ...
Entertainment & Sports
Dance Lover's Legal Footwork Gets L.A. Ballet on Its Toes
By David Houstonn
LOS ANGELES - Jennifer Bellah Maguire trained in ballet for years, but as a young-adult, opted for Bryn Mawr over dance school...
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer for U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real called Tuesday for an investigation into how a confidential disc...
Discipline
Milberg Weiss Takes Hits, as It Waits for Its Trial in 2008
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - One gray morning last week, attorney J. Douglas Richards and his partner, Michael Buchman, checked their e-mail ...
Kings County Superior Court Judge Ronald J. Maciel is retiring at the end of the week after sitting on the bench for 18 years.
Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner announced the opening of a London office. It is the firm's first office in Europe and ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert C. Barnes - American consumers have learned to dismiss claims of new and improved products as so much...
LOS ANGELES - Stroll past the volleyball courts at Will Rogers State Beach on a given weekday afternoon, and you may see Greg ...
SAN BERNARDINO - Grover Merritt, a veteran San Bernardino prosecutor who contended that District Attorney Mike Ramos fired him...
Firm Watch
Life-Cycle Events: In 2006, Law Firms Continued to Marry, Divorce and Die
By Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - The law firm consolidation trend continued into 2006 and is expected to march on through 2007, according to in...
FORUM COLUMN - By Nora Quinn - Like everyone else I took ethics in law school. I then taught it for a couple of semesters, whi...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chick to the State Bar Board of Gover...
Judges and Judiciary
Questions Narrow on Right to Jury Trial Under Unfair-Competition Law
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By John N. Quisenberry and Fernando A. Vicente - This year was busy for reviewing courts in examining the Calif...
LOS ANGELES - It's not easy being a small-firm lawyer with a big-time client base. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Diana R. Hall's removal from the Santa Barbara County bench this month may have been a rarity for the state's ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Since departing DLA Piper's Silicon Valley office for the relatively nascent San Francisco outpost of Payne &a...
James Lavell Harris had used marijuana all his life for chronic pain. So when he was sentenced to serve time in the Lake Count...
Public Interest
Theater-Loving Lawyer Lends a Helping Hand to Nonprofit
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - For a theater-lover like Greg Conklin, it was a natural fit. A transplanted New Yorker who saw lots of plays t...
Judges and Judiciary
Supreme Court Is Poised to Veer From 2006's Narrow Unanimity
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Long on intrigue but short on blockbuster decisions, 2006 was something of an intermission year at the U.S. Supre...
More than 17 years after one of the worst environmental disasters in American history, a federal appeals court hopes it has se...
LOS ANGELES - Superior Court Judge Helen I. Bendix is famous for her diligence and hard work. ...
Perker L. Meeks Jr., a veteran of the San Francisco County Superior Court bench, will retire at year's end.
FOCUS COLUMN - By Frank M. Loo - The California Constitution gives each citizen an "inalienable right" to pursue and obtain "p...
Discipline Column
VALENCIA - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Craig Richman had read the last progress report of the morning when he turned his ...
AUBURN - Frances Kearney likes to fix things. Whether it's remodeling a house, clearing a huge backlog of civil cases or organ...
SAN FRANCISCO - If it weren't for a chance rainstorm, retired Sonoma County Superior Court Judge William L. Bettinelli probabl...