FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert D. "Bo" Links - One true thing about litigation is that it breeds winners and losers. Witnesses testi...
SAN FRANCISCO - How much are class-action lawyers entitled to know about individual consumers while trying to file a lawsuit i...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Judicial Council approved a slate of jury reforms Friday, including one that requires judges to allow juro...
SAN FRANCISCO - Oriet Cohen-Supple, a San Francisco-based commercial litigator recently elected partner at Carroll, Burdick &a...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Group's New President Counts on Diplomacy, Energy
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - There were no lawyers in Jill L. Burkhardt's family, but she knew from an early age she wanted to be one.
LOS ANGELES - Nearly a year after reports of a settlement first surfaced, Cardinal Roger Mahony said he has agreed to pay $60 ...
LOS ANGELES - Alan Friedman credits Joseph Welch, the Army lawyer who famously asked Sen. Joseph McCarthy if he had no shame, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran San Francisco-based trial attorney David O. Larson remembers the charge his mentors issued when he was...
LOS ANGELES - Proskauer Rose augmented its developing Los Angeles transactional practice last week by adding a pair of partner...
LOS ANGELES - Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory needed a land-use partner for its Los Angeles office, and a corporate pa...
SAN BERNARDINO - Two judges who each have sat for 20 years on the San Bernardino County Superior Court are set to retire over ...
WASHINGTON - "Bong Hits 4 Jesus," the meaningless marijuana-themed message that landed an Alaska high-school student in hot wa...
GLENDALE - When Laura A. Matz took the bench for the first time in 1996, she felt as if she were about to embark on an uneasy ...
LOS ANGELES - In one of the largest of the hundreds of lawsuits stemming from the Northridge earthquake, a Los Angeles Superio...
EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Wendy M. Lazerson and Carlos Patricio Mino - You are at a San Francisco 49ers game enjoying a day away ...
Constitutional Law
New Rules Leave Questions on Electronically Stored Data
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By Joseph S. Wu - It's finally here. The six-year, Herculean push of experts and legal scholars to amend the Fe...
FORUM COLUMN - By Stanley S. Taylor and Aron J. Tager - As anyone who has contracted for construction work on his or her prope...
LOS ANGELES - Following the well-trod path from the U.S. attorney's office to the private sector, senior litigation counsel Al...
Francis W. Mayer, a retired veteran San Francisco judge who was instrumental in reforming the city's Juvenile Court system, di...
LOS ANGELES - A tentative settlement reached between the city of Long Beach and the operator of the Queen Mary luxury liner wo...
Judges and Judiciary
Off the Bench, TV Judge Takes a Turn as Winning Appellant
By Laura Ernden
"Judge Alex" bills himself as a television judge who resolves "complicated issues with his straightforward approach and cogent...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley is once again raising hackles with his fellow prosecutors by denying the Californ...
Overturning its own highly controversial 1994 decision on warrantless police searches, the California Supreme Court ruled Thur...
FORUM COLUMN - By Fred Silberberg - There is an aspect to family law proceedings that prove the age-old saying that "the law i...
LOS ANGELES - Oil drilling at Beverly Hills High School did not cause various cancers among alumni and area residents, a judge...
Appellate Practice
Man Can End His Name With Exclamation Point, Panel Says
By Laura Ernden
The next time you see Darren Lloyd Bean, make sure you give a shout out.
Lee Jay Berman is not a lawyer. Never has been.
SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors, get your pens and paper ready.
Seven nonprofits and two private firms saved a critical piece of Los Angeles County's health care system. ...
In the last decade, pro bono work has picked up where legal aid, strapped for cash and bound by federal restrictions, has had ...