Law Practice
'Patient Dumping' Settlement Is Likely Between L.A., Kaiser
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - The city attorney's office is expected to announce a settlement today with Kaiser Permanente over civil and crim...
LOS ANGELES - A judge on Monday declined to toss out the 1994 murder conviction of a woman, despite testimony by her three chi...
Deals Column - By Jason Song - David C. Eisman ranks his latest transaction among his favorites, on par with work he has done ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Returning Abortion Policy to the Legislative Branch
By Don Debenedictisn
Forum Column – By Matthew McReynolds – Despite the competing choruses of exaltation and excoriation, the Supreme Court’s new a...
WASHINGTON - A deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court reversed the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a death...
Sometimes even 1,000 lawyers aren't enough, Los Angeles heavyweight O'Melveny & Myers learned Monday.
Law Practice
At Arbitration, Racer’s Attorney Charges Lab Bungled Tests
By Jennifer Hammn
Testimony began Monday at Pepperdine University in a rare arbitration hearing that could determine whether reigning Tour de Fr...
Focus Column – By Gregory Bergman and Ken Moscaret – Reasonable attorney fees are truly in the eye of the beholder. There can ...
U.S. Supreme Court
Justices OK Ford's Request to Remand Rollover Case to Panel
By kristinakg@kgmllp.com
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ordered a San Diego appellate court to take a second look at a ruling that would...
Imagine the late-night TV commercial: ‘Have you or someone you love been injured in a … helicopter accident?’ Plaintiffs’ firm...
After working at seven law firms, Orange County Commissioner Richard E. Pacheco has returned to his old neighborhood to presid...
Suspensions and Probations
SACRAMENTO - A judge has thrown out a key workers' compensation reform that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the business commun...
Letters to the Editor - A significant factor in the demise of jury trials is the unfortunate judicial culture of delay reduction.
Industry Watch - By Anne Marie Ruff - LOS ANGELES - Health care attorney Kenneth J. Yood has joined Fulbright & Jaworski's...
Forum Column - By Elwood Lui and Peter Davids - The California Supreme Court has rejected the notion that the mandate to const...
Focus Column - Steven B. Katz and Brian M. Hom - Many a counsel has been snared by the siren call of the Biljac decisio...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Ruling Doesn't Fix Workers' Compensation Law
By Don Debenedictisn
Forum Column - By Linda F. Atcherley and Susan R. Borg - It’s high time the Legislature and the governor took a serious look a...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Panel Delays Vote on Program to Help Disciplined Attorneys
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - A controversial proposal to tighten a State Bar program for disciplined attorneys with substance-abuse or ment...
Government
Tug-of-War Over Obama MySpace Page Pits Campaign Against L.A. Paralegal
By David Houstonn
Unfortunately for a 29-year-old paralegal from Los Angeles, both the new-media staffers at the Barack Obama campaign chose to ...
Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - LOS ANGELES - Insurance-recovery partner Keith Meyer moved into the Los Angeles office of H...
A Los Angeles judge’s ruling may force a profound shift in California's legal landscape, making it harder for property owners ...
Litigation
Court Will Mull Dismissing Charges Against Milberg Plaintiff
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge today will hear a motion to dismiss money-laundering and tax-fraud charges against Seymour Laza...
SAN FRANCISCO - A flurry of legal and bureaucratic activity in recent days means that vital water pumps serving millions of Ca...
On the Move
Industry Watch - By Drew Combs - LOS ANGELES - Allan Gabriel, a partner at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, has depart...
Government
Judge Denies Defense Summary-Judgment Motion in Brocade Civil Case
By Craig Anderson
Web Exclusive - A skeptical U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer denied a summary-judgment motion brought by the lawyers for for...
At various times, she could have been described as a teenage mother, a farmworker, a narcotics agent, a police watchdog, a can...
Returning to Yuba County to practice criminal law, Superior Court Judge Debra L. Givens, elected at 38, has proved adept at he...
A desire to do good led John Behnke to the Peace Corps in Afghanistan and a legal practice near the redwoods. Now he sees his...