Corporate
Lawyer's Testimony Implicates Former Brocade Chief Executive
By Craig Anderson
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory Reyes admitted knowing the accounting implications of granti...
Litigation
No Joke: Judge Won't Issue Injunction Banning Jack in the Box Ad
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - Having a bubble-headed corporate spokes-clown laugh uproariously at you on national television is bad enough. But ...
LOS ANGELES - Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps will expand its Southern California real estate practice this summer when ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Bush Administration's Position on Stem Cells Leads to Unnecessary Suffering
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The president's stubborness on vital medical research is needlessly keeping millions of Am...
LOS ANGELES - Noted legal ethicist and former Los Angeles County deputy district attorney Rod Leonard died Friday. He was 63. ...
Forum Column - By Linda F. Atcherley - Changes to California's workers' compensation laws have led to disability payments bein...
SACRAMENTO - Peace officers in Los Angeles and several other major cities in California appear to have blocked a bill that wou...
Focus Column - By Gary A. Starre and Harold J. Cohn - Preparation is key when dealing with the twin traumas of divorce and ins...
Judges and Judiciary
Joint Budget Panel Rejects Judicial-Retirement Reform
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - A joint Assembly and Senate budget committee has rejected an effort to approve a retirement package for some judg...
LOS ANGELES - California-based Townsend and Townsend and Crew is taking its intellectual property capabilities east. It announ...
Nearly three decades after they helped to end some sexist practices in the airline industry, former flight attendants Gail Bra...
California Supreme Court
Judge Who Supports Logging Attacks Senior Colleagues
By Laura Ernden
One of the newest judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lashed out at his senior colleagues Monday, blaming judges f...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Is the Champion of Reversals
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court considered 21 decisions from the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals during i...
Judge Brian Aronson is a steadying force in the tumultuous world of family law and juvenile court. ...
Ed Corey Jr. and Kelly Sutter, estate attorneys in Sacramento, have found a growing practice helping the elderly recover asset...
LOS ANGELES - Lauded by some as bold and innovative, Howrey's plan to abandon the industry standard lockstep pay scale for ass...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - LOS ANGELES - Greenberg Traurig continues to expand its Orange County office with the add...
Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - Three Davis attorneys are among nearly two dozen people appointed by Gov. A...
Web Exclusive - An appellate court on Friday stripped a $15 million jury verdict from a man who discovered that he was the Tas...
Focus Column - By Lisa M. Martens and Gregory M. Krakau - The Internet is changing the stakes for the age-old concept of "like...
Firm Watch
Defender for Milberg Case Joins U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A.
By Gabe Friedmann
Industry Watch - By Gabe Friedman - LOS ANGELES - Brian E. Klein, an associate at the law firm representing lawyer Melvyn I. W...
Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - LOS ANGELES - Greenberg Glusker has completed its fourth lateral hire in the last four mont...
Judges and Judiciary
Budget Committee Rejects Judicial Retirement Reform
By David Houstonn
Web Exclusive - SACRAMENTO - Any hopes for a change in the judicial retirement plan this year was firmly dashed against the ro...
A San Francisco man wrongly imprisoned for murder for 14 years and later declared innocent by a superior court judge is not en...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
For Many Mediators, Promise of Doing Well by Doing Good Remains Elusive
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Christine von Wrangel - The popularity of mediation courses belies the lack of opportunities in the field. ...
Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is showing signs of bouncing back ...
Forum Column - By Diane Klein - A law professor takes a light-hearted look at the inanity of the high court's handling of Mors...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Robert Ray Huskinson, a lawyer whose victory in a state Supreme Court case helped ...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - LOS ANGELES - Reed Smith has tapped Marsha Houston, the former bankruptcy practice head o...
A reconstituted U.S. Supreme Court with two Bush appointees left a lasting mark in just its second year, steering the high cou...