Environmental
Proposed Offshore Drilling Blasts Environmental Protections
By David Minkown
Forum Column - With the fight to pry open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge having stalled out, the oil and gas oligarchy an...
Government
City Attorney Appoints Litigator Specializing in Toxic Torts to Ethics Panel
By Erin Park
LOS ANGELES - A civil litigator specializing in toxic torts and environmental property damage has been nominated for a five-ye...
Judges and Judiciary
Kennedy Calls Pressure for Stronger Sentences 'Sick'
By Amelia Hansen
HUNTINGTON BEACH - In a free-form speech, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy waxed nostalgic Monday about his Calif...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for the Catholic Church in San Diego have asked two television stations to turn over notes and other m...
Cosmetics maker L'Oréal USA broke the state's wage laws when it stiffed a Los Angeles hair model for $500 for over two months,...
You can get a fair trial even if your parents are colleagues of your prosecutor, a divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday.
SAN FRANCISCO - Reed Smith gained two more Steefel, Levitt & Weiss partners looking for international resources in order t...
Law Practice
Latham Securities Litigator Crosses to Fenwick & West
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Securities litigator Jay L. Pomerantz is leaving Latham & Watkins for a partner position with Fenwick &...
Labor/Employment
Employers Need Master Plan to Protect Privacy of Personal Data
By David Minkown
Focus Column - California statutes require employers to safeguard the personal and private information that they obtain from t...
Fish & Richardson named John C. Phillips the managing principal of the firm's San Diego office. Phillips is a patent attor...
Judges and Judiciary
Pleasanton Lawyer Named to Sit on State Bankruptcy Bench
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - Pleasanton bankruptcy attorney Roger L. Efremsky has been appointed a federal bankruptcy judge for the Norther...
Law Practice
As Luce Forward Bulks Up, East Coast Lawyer Finds Home There
By Robert Iafolla
SAN DIEGO - After a decade of California dreamin', Louis A. Mezzullo finally has moved west from Virginia to join Luce, Forwar...
Law Practice
In Battle for White & Case's Energy Group, Winston Wins
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Since the February announcement that it would shutter its relatively nascent San Francisco office July 1, Whit...
SAN FRANCISCO - State appeal court justices are showing signs of getting fed up with multichemical Proposition 65 settlements ...
Appellate Practice
Judge Wrongly Denied Asylum to Man With Murdered Relatives
By Keith Bowersn
You don't have to be murdered to qualify for political asylum, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
Government
Former Prosecutor Doesn't 'Have to Be Loved to Be Effective'
By Martin Bergn
LOS ANGELES - His father had been shot to death in a liquor store robbery, and Billy Yang showed up at a Los Angeles City Coun...
LOS ANGELES - For the first time since a Los Angeles federal grand jury indicted Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman for runn...
LOS ANGELES - Defense lawyers representing indicted civil rights attorney Stephen G. Yagman and federal prosecutors are skirmi...
Judges and Judiciary
The Voters Are Very Well Capable of Reasoned Decisions to Turn Sitting Judges Out of Office
By David Minkown
Letters to the Editor - Jeffrey A. Lowe's commentary, "Judges Should Be Appointed for 12-Year Terms" (Daily Journal, June 19),...
LOS ANGELES - Merck & Co. anticipated it could lose nearly a fifth of a projected $2.5 billion in Vioxx sales if its marke...
Column - By Garry Abrams - The mouthpieces for the New York cops who killed for the mob are coming to the West Coast. Beware, ...
LOS ANGELES - Looking to expand his practice, Karl E. Block has departed Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger to j...
REDWOOD CITY - San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Clifford V. Cretan's courtroom can resemble a travel agency one moment an...
LOS ANGELES - Lou Barletta admits to knowing little about national politics. As mayor of Hazleton, a town of 31,000 just north...
Litigation
Department of Justice Secures $900 Million From Tenet Corp.
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - After nearly four years of investigation, the U.S. attorney's office has agreed to settle a civil lawsuit agains...
Fourm Column - California currently has no provisions providing for interpreters in civil courts for self-represented and/or i...
SAN FRANCISCO - Neutral Mark S. Rudy doesn't consider it his job to counsel people on whether or not they're getting a fair de...
Focus Column - In the article "Family Law Jurists Need to Let Lawyers Present Their Cases" (Daily Journal, June 23), Fred Silb...
Labor/Employment
Prepare Well, to Protect Company From Terminated Employees' Suits
By Amy Kalinn
More often than not, a terminated employee's decision to file a lawsuit against an employer results from the way in which the ...
Focus Column - In light of the wide discretion afforded family law judicial officers, it is often said that a trial judge can ...