SAN BERNARDINO - Bill Shapiro has no intention of ditching his job as a personal-injury and product-liability lawyer. He loves...
SAN FRANCISCO - More than 35,000 people are headed to the Nevada desert in the coming week for the counterculture party and so...
Military Law
U.S. Panel Restores $250,000 Verdict in San Diego Bias Case
By Jim Adamekn
SAN DIEGO - A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated a $250,000 jury verdict for a former San Diego police officer who cla...
Erin Park's recent article (Daily Journal, Aug. 3) mischaracterized the role of the Los Angeles city attorney's office in revi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius expanded its employee stock ownership plan practice to San Francisco last week wit...
LOS ANGELES - Transactional attorney Ronen Elad has joined DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary as a partner in its Century City office...
LOS ANGELES - From Kansas to Korea, attorney Tymothy MacLeod has litigated his way around the world, landing most recently in...
Securities
9th Circuit Clarifies Liability Standards in Securities Fraud
By David Minkown
FOCUS COLUMN - In 2005, the total value of all federal securities class settlements, excluding those for Enron, WorldCom and C...
FORUM COLUMN - At last count, there were nine justices on the United States Supreme Court. By any standard arithmetic computat...
Judges and Judiciary
Ex-Orange County Judge Faces Possible Misconduct Probe
By John Roemer
Susanne S. Shaw already has left the Orange County Superior Court, but she hasn't left her troubled career behind her. ...
WASHINGTON - The 2006 class of Supreme Court law clerks will be something of a boys club, as just seven of the 36 law clerks-1...
SACRAMENTO - The Democratic leadership in the Assembly has restored 25 judicial slots to a pending bill that would increase th...
LOS ANGELES - Tax attorney Chad C. Coombs has joined the tax credit practice group in the Los Angeles office of Buchalter Neme...
When veteran San Diego County Superior Court Judge Lantz Lewis moved last year from the criminal courts to family law, he worr...
VENTURA - Commissioner Bruce A. Young has a technique he uses when the litigants in his family law courtroom get too argumenta...
McDermott Will & Emery added James W. Soong as of-counsel to the firm's Silicon Valley office. Soong's practice focuses on...
The parents of two young brothers who died when their foster mother left them locked in a car in Lancaster on a sweltering Jul...
The California Supreme Court issued four opinions late last month dealing with Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation...
If not for journalists, fans at baseball stadiums across America might not have spent the summer booing Barry Bonds. ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral Provides 'Reality Check' to His Clients
By Gabe Friedmann
SAN DIEGO - One spring afternoon in 1992, Thomas Gniatkowski was knee deep in an arbitration when his secretary burst into the...
Labor/Employment
Employers Should Give Domestic Partners Same Benefits as Married Couples
By David Minkown
Domestic partnership is a family law issue, right? So what does it have to do with employers? A lot. California's domestic par...
Your Aug. 21 article on the recent report assessing regional Habitat Conservation Plans ("Study Questions Effectiveness of Hab...
Energy Law
Solar Energy Partnerships Can Help California Beat the Heat
By David Minkown
Unpredictable and continually increasing energy costs show no signs of relenting. During July, high temperatures and resulting...
After hundreds of investors lost $240 million in a securities scam, a judge ruled that the state agency responsible for protec...
SAN FRANCISCO - Barney, the fictional purple dinosaur known for his songs about love and hugs, could be headed to court. ...
LOS ANGELES - Another Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan litigator is leaving to join Steptoe & Johnson's newly minted C...
LOS ANGELES - Defending the actions of police officers on Skid Row, a spokesman for Los Angeles Police Chief William H. Bratto...
Technology & Science
Apple Settles iPod Patent Dispute for $100 Million
By Anna Oberthurn
Apple Computer has agreed to pay $100 million to settle a dispute over a patent used in its iPod, the company's popular digita...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys guilty of the worst behavior are a step closer to never practicing law again. ...
Law Practice
Doing It Differently: Knobbe Martens Favors Cooperation Over Competition
By Robert Iafolla
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Craig S. Summers turned down an offer to join Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear when he graduated from Lo...