SAN FRANCISCO - Lawrence B. Low, who helped found the San Francisco outpost of Preston Gates & Ellis, began at Orrick, Har...
An appellate panel on Monday threw out a Honduran immigrant's murder conviction, finding it was based on a confession coerced ...
LOS ANGELES - Interpreters for the Los Angeles County Superior Court say they may strike at any time after a meltdown in labor...
Securities
Number of Securities Class Actions in U.S. Decreases Sharply
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - Filings of securities fraud class actions declined sharply in the first half of 2006, hitting the lowest level f...
LOS ANGELES - Gibson Dunn & Crutcher will receive the 2006 Corporate Award for Special Achievement in Adoption on Saturday...
SAN FRANCISCO - The proposed $4.5 billion acquisition of Mercury Interactive Corp. by technology solutions giant Hewlett-Packa...
Constitutional Law
Free-Speech Ruling Makes Little Allowance for the Realities of Life
By David Minkown
Forum Column - Richard Ceballos was, in 2000, a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney whose suit against the district at...
Native Americans
Crosses Don't Belong, Because All Americans Aren't Christian
By David Minkown
Letters to the Editor - The letter "ACLU Undermines Many Treasured American Values" (Daily Journal, July 20) purports to offer...
Discipline
Don't Expect Withdrawing Plaintiffs to Pick Up Attorney Fees, Court Says
By Itir Yakarn
If someone files a lawsuit just to intimidate you and quickly withdraws it, don't count on getting your attorney fees paid. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Blasts Juvenile Judge for Refusing to Recuse Herself
By John Roemer
As a juvenile court judge in San Joaquin County, Barbara A. Kronlund is used to issuing orders. ...
Focus Column - Enforcing one's patent in litigation can be a costly endeavor. ...
Labor/Employment
Lawyer, Rolodex Return to Litigation, at McGuire Woods
By Robert Iafolla
LOS ANGELES - McGuire Woods bolstered its labor and employment practice with the addition of partner Matthew C. Kane and his a...
LOS ANGELES - When Mustafa Aziz applied to become a U.S. citizen, he didn't have to endure long lines or clear security checkp...
Corporate
California Firm Is First in U.S. With IPO on London Exchange
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - A California pharmaceutical firm is the first U.S. corporation to go public with a listing on the London Stock...
Judges and Judiciary
If Court Splits, State's 9th Circuit Judges Will Still Face Heavy Load
By Hurley
WASHINGTON - In the debate over splitting the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has emerged ...
SANTA ANA - Former Congressman James E. Rogan, who helped lead Republican efforts to impeach President Clinton, was named Mond...
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Josh M. Fredricks works to preserve the old-time values of his father's days as a law...
Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Leslie G. Landau brings her preference for the question-and-answer style of the appel...
Deals - GI Partners announced July 24 that it has completed the final closing of GI Partners Fund II at $1.45 billion.
SAN FRANCISCO - After spending seven years in-house at two high-tech startups and one of the world's leading ice cream manufac...
LOS ANGELES - Fundraising dinners follow the same pattern: small talk, bland food and long speeches and then a line for the va...
Politically connected billionaire Ron Burkle has taken another hit from the California courts. ...
Judges and Judiciary
After the Firestorm, Brown Spends the First Year in Mainstream
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - After two years in the national spotlight as one of President Bush's most controversial judicial nominees, former...
SANTA ANA - Federal prosecutors won a sweeping victory Friday in their highly publicized efforts to crack down on the Aryan Br...
PALM DESERT - He lost the case. But for Jim Parkinson, representing thousands of American prisoners who survived the Bataan De...
Judges and Judiciary
It's About Time Federal Judges Got a Living Wage
By David Minkown
Forum Column - At the beginning of the year, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. released his yearend report on the federal judi...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Judge Leans Toward Rejecting Condemnation of Woman's Farm for School
By Jim Adamekn
SAN BERNARDINO - A school district's move to seize an elderly woman's farm for a new high school was dealt a blow Friday when ...
Services have taken place for veteran Los Angeles attorney Elise E. Goldstein.
On the Move - Karl A. Rand has joined Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps as special counsel in the firm's San Diego office.
Forum Column - It appears that those who make up the administrative policies of our family law courts just don't get it when i...