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Corporate


FORUM COLUMN - By Keith Rohman - Politicians, legal experts and journalists have professed to be appalled and scandalized by H...


Tax


LETTER TO THE EDITOR - I am writing to comment on an article that appeared in the Sept. 15 issue of the Los Angeles Daily Jour...


Labor/Employment


Combating Harassment

Nov. 24, 2006
By Eric Berkowitzn

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Jason A. Weiss - As incidents of harassment, discrimination and retaliation continue to infect the work...


Corporate


USC Law School Stands by Fundraising Alumnus Karatz

Nov. 24, 2006
By Gabe Friedmann

LOS ANGELES - Bruce Karatz, class of '70, has built considerable goodwill at USC's Gould School.


Investments


Banks Wary as Top Court Reviews Federal Law

Nov. 24, 2006
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - It was 20 years ago when Michigan lawmakers, facing a mortgage scandal that saw investors and borrowers lose mill...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who befriended a lonely and isolated zoo chimpanzee can sue the U.S. Department of Agriculture over th...


Judges and Judiciary


U.S. Agrees to Review Latino Group's Petition

Nov. 24, 2006
By Martin Bergn

LOS ANGELES - A Latino group is hoping a recent U.S. Supreme Court will bolster its argument that the district boundaries for ...


Law Practice


Collecting Unpaid Fees

Nov. 24, 2006
By Eric Berkowitzn

FOCUS COLUMN - By Matthew C. Mickelson - A true story, except for the name: Cassandra was a senior associate at a medium-sized...


Judges and Judiciary


S.F. Presiding Judge Moves Colleague

Nov. 24, 2006
By Dennis Opatrnyn

SAN FRANCISCO - The incoming presiding judge of San Francisco County Superior Court has decided that a colleague who sits in t...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Norman Brand

Nov. 24, 2006
By William Arthur Haynes

As a young university professor in the 1970s, Norman Brand had only fleeting thoughts of a legal education — until he got hims...


Judicial Profile


Independent-Minded

Nov. 24, 2006
By Donna Dominon

SANTA ROSA - Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Lawrence G. "Gary" Antolini's refusal in October to bar portions of a NBC pro...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Climate-Change Cases Form New Legal Front

Nov. 23, 2006
By Dennis Pfaffn

SAN FRANCISCO - Not far from the Central Valley city of Stockton, an ambitious developer wants to create a new community near ...


Law Practice


Taking Confusion Past Hearsay Hurdle

Nov. 23, 2006
By Eric Berkowitzn

FOCUS COLUMN - By Chad J. Levy and Erica S. Alterwitz - Evidence of actual confusion, or the lack thereof, is often the dispos...


Government


FORUM COLUMN - By Joshua Spivak - With California on a post-election political ascendancy, the state Legislature's leaders ar...


Judges and Judiciary


Faithful to Doing the Right Thing

Nov. 23, 2006
By Alexa Hylandn

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Jack W. Morgan. ...


Criminal


S.F. Injunction's Target Says He's Not a Gangster

Nov. 23, 2006
By Dennis Opatrnyn

SAN FRANCISCO - In his first effort to disband gangs through civil injunctions, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has...


Government


LOS ANGELES - Former Jones Day temporary worker Stephen Heller - considered a whistle-blower by some and a thief by prosecutor...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - Private Investigator David Vacca's official account of his work on an Orange County death-penalty case read li...


Technology & Science


A federal court jury in Los Angeles awarded a major manufacturer of LCD technology $50 million in damages Tuesday in a patent ...


Judges and Judiciary


Courts Mull Mixed-Use Structures

Nov. 23, 2006
By David Houstonn

SACRAMENTO - Hoping to capitalize on some of the prime real estate it owns, the California judiciary is exploring the formatio...


SAN FRANCISCO - From beyond the grave, the late District Attorney Norman Vroman is still shaking up Mendocino County. ...


Family


It Was a Great Year for Helping Foster Children

Nov. 23, 2006
By Eric Berkowitzn

FORUM COLUMN - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - As we pause this holiday season over our heaping plates of turkey and pumpkin pie, ma...


Firm Watch


Avoiding Merger, Partner Joins Sheppard

Nov. 22, 2006
By Robert Iafolla

LOS ANGELES - On the cusp of its merger with Thelen Reid & Priest, Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner lost two m...


Law Practice


FOCUS COLUMN - By Mark Steinberg - I am an avid reader of the Sunday New York Times Style Section. ...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - If you were in downtown Oakland last week, and thought that was Wonder Woman you saw speeding down the block i...


State Bar & Bar Associations


State Bar Will Consolidate Its Diversity Panels

Nov. 22, 2006
By Amy Yarbroughn

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite pleas to save the groups, the State Bar has decided to disband its diversity committees - some of whic...


The New Lawyer Supplement


Question 6: Wills & Succession

Nov. 22, 2006
By Contributor


Judges and Judiciary


Justices Back Parents Who Suspect Abuse

Nov. 22, 2006
By Itir Yakarn

The California Supreme Court made it easier Monday for parents to justify fleeing with their children if they believe the pare...


Intellectual Property


Ethics in Investigations

Nov. 22, 2006
By Eric Berkowitzn

FOCUS COLUMN - By Jed Wakefield - Intellectual property cases often require extensive upfront investigation. ...


Litigation


Judge Postpones Pellicano's Trial to August

Nov. 22, 2006
By David Houstonn

LOS ANGELES - The wiretapping and conspiracy trial against one-time private eye to the stars Anthony Pellicano, high-profile a...