Government
New Rules Tell Lawyers to Get a Grasp on Clients' Digital Data
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By Victor Limongelli - There has been a widespread hue and cry about the pending amendments to the Federal Rule...
LOS ANGELES - While high-profile plaintiffs' lawyer William S. Lerach and the federal prosecutor investigating him sat as co-p...
LOS ANGELES - Assistant U.S. Attorney William Wesley Carter will bring his two decades of experience enforcing rules and regul...
Missing from attorney Julie Bisceglia's Op-Ed piece supporting sex-based pricing by businesses ("Ladies' Night Suits: The Late...
Judges and Judiciary
Cultural Exchange Instructs Leaders of Russia's Legal Community on American Law-Firm Methods
By Tim Hay
SAN FRANCISCO - Like just about everything in Russia today, the role of the lawyer in society is changing radically. ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Tensions in Israel Haven't Kept Deal Makers From Snapping Up Tech Firms
By Rick Kennedyn
COLUMN - Over the summer, images of rocket attacks and refugees dominated media coverage of Israel, but as the August ceasefir...
FORUM COLUMN - By Bonnie M. Dumanis - On Nov. 7, we have an important opportunity to make critically needed changes to the sta...
Criminal
Judge Lets S.F. City Attorney Use Injunctions on Street Gang
By Dennis Opatrnyn
SAN FRANCISCO - Over objections by the American Civil Liberties Union, a judge on Monday allowed the city attorney to move for...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. attorney's office here has given up trying to prove it did not violate attorney-client privilege by l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Months of speculation ended Monday with San Francisco-based Thelen Reid & Priest and New York's Brown Rays...
SAN FRANCISCO - "Stormin'" Norman Vroman died in September, but his ghost looms large in the Mendocino County district attorne...
MARYSVILLE - Talking by phone through the wire-mesh glass window in the Yuba County jail, a surprisingly amiable Nigerian woma...
FORUM COLUMN - By Christian Abasto - The Los Angeles Unified School District is destroying the housing of hundreds of low-inco...
Judges and Judiciary
Murder Defendant Files to Block Movie About His Case
By Carri Karuhnn
A defense attorney for an alleged killer filed an injunction Friday against a major motion-picture studio in an effort to bloc...
LOS ANGELES - The expansion of Steptoe & Johnson's Century City office continued apace last week with the addition of a qu...
Public Interest
Article on the Work of ACLU in San Diego and Imperial Counties Draws Criticism
By Eric Berkowitzn
Regarding "In San Diego, New Boss Emboldens the ACLU" (LADJ Oct. 10), your article was too kind to me. Far too kind ... to the...
SAN FRANCISCO - Davis Wright Tremaine's bankruptcy and creditors' rights practice scored a boost this month with the San Franc...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 960 square feet behind a blank door six floors above Sansome Street has all the characteristics of a start...
Judges and Judiciary
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Federal Appeals Court Lets Prosecutors Protect Witnesses' Names
By Dennis Opatrnyn
In a victory for the San Francisco U.S. Attorney's office in a gang murder case, a federal appeals court on Friday ruled that ...
Appellate Practice
Panel Revives Suit by Man Claiming Harassing Search
By Laura Ernden
A state appellate panel has revived a civil rights suit against Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies who allegedly forced a 6...
LOS ANGELES - The pending split within Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has claimed its first casualty with the defection ...
Employee Benefits
Trial Starts Over Legality of San Diego City Employees' Retirement Benefits
By Jim Adamekn
SAN DIEGO - Since he became San Diego's city attorney two years ago, Mike Aguirre has been saying that retirement benefits for...
Law Practice
Don't Fly the Law-Firm Nest Without Thorough Preparation
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Michael M. Amir - Of course you've thought about it. Every law firm associate I know has thought about it. ...
LOS ANGELES - On a recent evening, 12 men sat around tables in a room on the second floor of a refurbished Hollywood bungalow ...
LOS ANGELES - The mob had two favorite spots on the night of October 24, 1871, in the small pueblo called Los Angeles. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Firm leaders of Minneapolis-based Dorsey & Whitney are due to arrive in the Bay Area today to discuss scut...
Judges and Judiciary
Court Will Hear International Patent Case Against Microsoft
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - In a case that could have considerable ramifications for the software industry, the U.S. Supreme Court announced ...
SACRAMENTO - For 30 years, plaintiff lawyers have tried to chip away at California's limits on non-economic damages in medica...
SIMI VALLEY - Ventura County Superior Court Judge William Q. Liebmann became a lawyer because he wanted to help people solve t...
The Santa Clara County Bar Association has elected Thomas Kuhnle president-elect for the 2008 term. Kuhnle is a partner at Bin...