Appellate Practice
Appeals Panel Rejects Fishermen's Push Against Salmon Limits
By Dennis Pfaffn
Federal regulators are not required to count salmon that spawn at hatcheries when deciding Pacific Ocean fishing limits, the 9...
Law Practice
Health Care Law Boutique K&R Loses 16 Lawyers to Lord Bissell
By Drew Combsn
LOS ANGELES - Sixteen Los Angeles and Sacramento attorneys are departing the health care law boutique K&R Law Group to joi...
Labor/Employment
Workers Sue Restaurant Owner Over Breaks for Rest and Meals
By Jim Adamekn
SAN DIEGO - In one of California's largest wage-and-hour class actions, employees are seeking hundreds of millions of dollars ...
Prosecutors may introduce statistics at trial about the DNA profiles of different racial groups to help juries understand the ...
Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Jonathan M. Lehan is the lone coastal judge at the Ten Mile Branch, where he presides ov...
WASHINGTON - Down in the Supreme Court's gift shop, tourists and judicial junkies can buy glossy photos of President Bush's tw...
Forum Column - It is a testament to the underlying resiliency of the U.S. economy that it has been able to absorb so many self...
Focus Column - Sally was in her office working on a rush project for a senior associate. She received a call from Kelley, a pa...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Julian A. Pardini, a native San Franciscan who practiced probate and estate-planning law in the city ...
Focus Column - Humankind has long been concerned about the safety afforded by a shield. That safety is dependent upon the stre...
LOS ANGELES - His mother gets killed, his family collapses, his friends betray him, his enemies ambush him and the cops frame ...
LOS ANGELES - Prominent litigator Louis R. "Skip" Miller has added to the partnership of his two-month-old Century City-based ...
Environmental
Discovery Opens Lawyers' Eyes to a San Joaquin River Solution
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - A potentially historic agreement that might one day revive California's second-largest river began to take sha...
Appellate Practice
Panel Faults Lawyer's Crapshoot That Sent Client to Death Row
By Amelia Hansen
Lawyers aren't expected to be clairvoyants. But they also shouldn't make risky predictions when their clients' lives are on th...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge has ruled the city of Santa Monica has a sufficient traffic plan and should not face civi...
LOS ANGELES - A state Court of Appeal has ruled the West Los Angeles entertainment litigation firm Christensen Glaser can be s...
Administrative/Regulatory
Now-Former Candidate Delgadillo Goes Back to Work
By Erin Park
LOS ANGELES - On June 7, Rocky Delgadillo showed up at his office on the eighth floor of City Hall East a bit later than usual...
Media
Newport Beach Lawyer Beats The Times to Win Press Club's Top Blog Award
By Robert Iafolla
NEWPORT BEACH - J. Craig Williams moved to Southern California nearly 20 years ago and never attended a celebrity award show. ...
Large Firms
Thelen Reid Reorganizes Its Leadership in Silicon Valley
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Thelen Reid & Priest's Silicon Valley head is passing the reins to a young, energetic litigator with plans...
Government
More Prisons Aren't Answer; Decriminalizing Victimless Acts Is
By David Minkown
Forum Column - As long as California's prison population keeps growing, the state has to provide more prison facilities. In hi...
Focus Column - Experienced plaintiffs' trial lawyers handling medical-malpractice claims would agree with the views expressed ...
Forum Column - On May 3, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 5253, legislation that would make price gouging in the ...
Forum Column - It's open season on re-redistricting. That's the major long-term national impact of the Supreme Court's decisio...
International
9th Circuit Seems to be Leaning Toward 'Jurisdiction First' Rule
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently faced the issue of whether personal and subject matter jurisdict...
Administrative/Regulatory
Nuclear Snafu in 1959 Brings Legal Fallout to L.A. Hills
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - If asked to identify the worst nuclear accident in American history, most people would probably say the Three ...
Government
Taxation With Representation Keeps Alcohol Cheaper in State
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - California's wine-and-cheese crowd and those who have a good stiff drink after work enjoy something the rest of t...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Eminent Domain Gets Twisted: Can Hercules Evict Wal-Mart?
By Tim Hay
SAN FRANCISCO - Poor old Mrs. Jones. Kicked to the curb so developers could bulldoze her lifelong home for a shopping mall. ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Justices Extend Liability in HIV Infection Cases
By Itir Yakarn
In a deeply divided ruling Monday, the California Supreme Court extended tort liability to defendants who have reason to belie...
People often tell Judge Lisa Hart Cole that her courtroom looks familiar. "That's because they've seen it on TV," she said. ...
EL CAJON - After more than 20 years practicing law, serving as a judge and living in eastern San Diego County, Superior Court ...