Alternative Dispute Resolution
'Med-Arb' Is a 'Dog Who Will Not Hunt'
By David Minkown
Letter to the Editor - I refer to Victoria Fine's article reviewing med-arb, "Hybrid 'Med-Arb' Receives Mixed Reviews," (Los A...
SAN FRANCISCO - A 2-year-old landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting hearsay in criminal prosecutions has cast a local hig...
Insurance
9th Circuit Calls for Court Scrutiny When Insurers Deny Benefits
By Amelia Hansen
Ruling in favor of a widow who had been denied benefits from her husband's life insurance plan, a federal appeals court Tuesda...
LOS ANGELES - Hewlett-Packard's announcement late last month that it would acquire Mercury Interactive Corp., an enterprise so...
Securities
Ballot Measure Would Tax Tobacco to Raise Money for Health Services
By Martin Bergn
A November ballot initiative that would raise tobacco taxes to fund hospital emergency services and other health programs cont...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Riverside County judge has struck out with a judicial watchdog agency for waiting to take a verdict in a dou...
Kent B. Goss and Valerie M. Goo, Los Angeles-based partners at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, have departed the firm to join...
Four Morgan, Lewis & Bockius summer associates returned to law school last week not just having gained legal experience bu...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Shareholders Act to Weaken Boards' Poison Pill Against Takeovers
By David Minkown
Forum Column - For the first time in perhaps more than a decade, Institutional Shareholder Services, the most prominent adviso...
Natural Resources
'Something More' Is Required for Personal Jurisdiction
By David Minkown
Focus Column - 'Please, sir, I want some more." For his modest request in seeking another bowl of gruel, the protagonist in Ch...
Environmental
Los Angeles Sues Kern County for Pooh-poohing City's Sewage
By Dennis Pfaffn
Los Angeles officials hope a federal judge flushes a voter-approved Kern County measure that the city says discriminates again...
SANTA ANA - Taking a recent Supreme Court precedent into new territory, a federal judge has sharply limited the evidence prose...
Appellate Practice
Panel Says 'Shock Jock' Can Sue College for Defamation
By Laura Ernden
A former "shock jock" at a college radio station can sue the school and its general counsel for defamation after he drew fire ...
RIVERSIDE - Commissioner Charles J. Koosed doesn't like to rush young offenders through his juvenile delinquency calendar for ...
LOS ANGELES - Workers at five Los Angeles nonunion hotels are embroiled in contentious organizing drives just as the areas hos...
Judges and Judiciary
High Court Must Exercise Discretion in Reviewing States' Capital Cases
By David Minkown
Forum Column - By Michael Halley - The Supreme Court's decisions about which cases it accepts to review are crucial for the ad...
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Paul H. Alvarado, a veteran of two decades on the bench, is retiring Wednesday. ...
Letter to the Editor - Thank you for providing a well-balanced, broad brush stroke of workers' compensation practice. "How Has...
Entertainment & Sports
Counsel at NBC Leaves Studio Lights to Work at Davis Wright
By Robert Iafolla
LOS ANGELES - After spending three and a half years as in-house counsel for NBC Universal, Camilo Echavarria has joined Davis ...
Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - California Civil Code Section 2860 addresses an insurance carrier's duty to provide and pay...
Civil Rights
Supreme Court Says Police Union Cannot Block Department's Racial Profiling Probe
By Peter Blumbergn
If police departments want to investigate whether officers are making traffic stops based on the race of the driver, they don'...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Vote by ABA Pushes System Toward Legal Aid in Civil Cases
By Anat Rubinn
LOS ANGELES - Not long ago, the idea of an individual's right to counsel in civil cases was endorsed by few people outside the...
Los Angeles prosecutors failed to hand over evidence favorable to an armed-robbery defendant, leading a state appellate panel ...
Education
Student Privacy Needs Protection From Technology, Government
By David Minkown
Education
Student Privacy Needs Protection From Technology, Government
By David Minkown
Forum Column - Our life experience colors our perspectives of various issues. I was a 33-year-old wife, mother and teacher whe...
Deals - Myspace Will Welcome Google to Help Visitors
WASHINGTON - Federal appellate Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld may be best known for writing a decision that was music to the ears o...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed two recently elected Superior Court judges to immediate judgeships. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Will State Supreme Court Shift Balance of Power Between Judges and Juries?
By David Minkown
Forum Column - In Lockheed Litigation Cases, No. S132167, the state Supreme Court is poised to decide a legal issue that could...