FULLERTON - On a recent Wednesday morning in Fullerton, Commissioner George W. Berenson listened patiently as two neighbors de...
Proskauer Rose named Robert H. Horn and Jonathan E. Rich senior counsel in the firm's Los Angeles office. Horn and Rich are me...
SUSPENSIONS
AUBURN - Placer County Superior Court Judge Colleen Nichols has excellent hearing, which is sometimes unfortunate for the liti...
SAN DIEGO - Nearly 7,000 current and former employees of Boston Market Corp. will receive cash and improved employment conditi...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Bush administration should have broad leeway to determine whether canned tuna can still be labeled "dolphi...
Law Practice
Updating Your Calendar System Protects Practice and Clients
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Michael A. Taitelman - Administrative tasks occupy a significant portion of both attorneys' and staff member...
EMPLOYMENT LAW - By James J. McDonald, Jr. - Law firms, like other employers, are not immune from exposure to employment law c...
LOS ANGELES - In nearly 40 years in the business of law, the only aspect of Edward J. Costello Jr.'s practice that has remaine...
Labor/Employment
Negligence Standard in Workplace Harassment Would Be a Better Deterrent
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and David Gross - Part one of this article, published Thursday, outlined the developme...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Employment cases are fundamentally different from fender-benders. ...
Government
Democrats Plan Hearings on Administration's Domestic-Wiretapping Program
By Hurley
WASHINGTON - Democrats in Congress could provide a big boost to the plaintiffs challenging the Bush administration's wiretappi...
Government
Riverside Will Pay $1.6 Million to Settle Bias Claim by Black Ex-Officer
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - A black former Riverside policeman who claimed fellow officers harassed him and racially discriminated against him...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
City Files Two 'Dumping' Suits Against Kaiser
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - Carol Ann Reyes was 63 and homeless in March when hospital personnel from Kaiser Bellflower put her in a taxi - ...
LOS ANGELES - The regents of the University of California on Thursday quickly and unanimously approved creation of a new law s...
Discipline
Off-Color and on-Record, Cooley Keeps Rift With State DAs Going
By Carri Karuhnn
LOS ANGELES - With blunt profanity, District Attorney Steve Cooley put to rest any notion he has patched his rift with other p...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge's Plan Puts Former Mayor Atop S.F. Housing Agency
By Tim Hay
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge is on the verge of handing over leadership of the city's beleaguered housing agency to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The feds want a time out for an appeal, but plaintiffs attacking the Bush administration's controversial warra...
LOS ANGELES - At the ripe old age of 17, Krystina Kessler is racing against time. ...
Whether driving a boat or steering the court system, Orange County Superior Court Judge William L. Evans likes making things w...
LOS ANGELES - Maria Perez's four-year legal battle to stay in the U.S. has cost her money, time and now her faith that the nat...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Cecily T. Talbert and Todd A. Williams - Affordable housing, redevelopment and eminent...
Firm Watch
Busy Year of Wheeling and Dealing Puts Corporate Associates in Demand
By Emma Dewaldn
LOS ANGELES - Only five years ago, law firms turned away would-be transaction lawyers. But now, mid-level corporate associates...
FORUM COLUMN - By William M. Crosby - The business community has lamented both court decisions affirming employment-related cl...
SAN JOSE - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Freedman was so busy subbing for two judges and maintaining his own c...
The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether criminal defendants who miss the start of their own trials whi...
A Butte County judge was publicly admonished Wednesday for failing to disclose that his father loaned him $71,000 toward his 2...
Discipline
Bar May Make Resigning During Disciplinary Hearings Harder
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys facing discipline might soon find it tougher to resign their way out of trouble. ...
Intellectual Property
Blogger Sees Irony of Earning an IP Warning From YouTube
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - A popular Silicon Valley blogger says YouTube has threatened him with legal action for showing the Web site's ...
WASHINGTON - All of a sudden, California's Democratic senators are the go-to women on federal environmental and election law. ...