SAN FRANCISCO - After 33 years as a mainstay at Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy, Laurence W. Kessenick is starting hi...
Forum Column - By Robert Phillips and Brett Jackson - Protection against trademark dilution has long been an element of state ...
Sentencing guidelines, juror service and disaster planning will be among the topics of discussion at the upcoming 9th Circuit ...
Focus Column - By Randy Broberg and Monique Ho - France has long earned a reputation for nationalism and the defense of the Fr...
Forum Column - By Greg Lukianoff - You know a possible way to lower the murder rate in this country? Simply declare all 16- to...
Firm Watch
Bursting at Boutique Seams, Littler Expands Cross-Country
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - The first half of 2006 has been a period of substantial growth for Littler Mendelson, the labor and employment...
Product Liability
Concerns About Due Process Cause Judge to Sever Vioxx Cases
By Bobbi Murrayn
LOS ANGELES - With less than a day to go before jury selection begins in California's first Vioxx liability trial, a Los Angel...
Appellate Practice
Court Says Arbitrator Can Be Sued for Failing to Explain Withdrawal From Case
By Itir Yakarn
Arbitrators are not immune from liability if they withdraw from a case without explaining why, a state appellate court ruled T...
Environmental
9th Circuit Won't Kick Shrew Off Endangered Species List
By Dennis Pfaffn
The Buena Vista Lake shrew is a tiny creature with a big problem, insofar as there may be fewer than three dozen of the animal...
Judges and Judiciary
From Russia, With Love: Rehab Aspect of U.S. Judicial System Impresses Visitors
By Jim Adamekn
SAN DIEGO - A Russian judge who observed San Diego courts last week is taking home new ideas about juvenile justice, and she p...
Criminal
Federal Hate-Crimes Trial in 1999 Murder of Black Man Set to Begin
By John Hanusz
LOS ANGELES - Kenneth Wilson was parking a friend's car on Avenue 52 in Los Angeles' Highland Park area on the morning of Apri...
Judges and Judiciary
Turmoil Over Training Clouds Judge Association Election
By David Houstonn
SAN FRANCISCO - Amid growing political controversy over proposed mandatory training for judges, the board of the California Ju...
Civil Rights
Full 9th Circuit Panel Weighs School's Hawaiians First Policy
By Amelia Hansenn
Several judges on a federal appeals court panel said Tuesday that a private school that gives preference to native Hawaiian st...
Judges cannot order convicted sex offenders to be hooked up to a machine that checks their sexual arousal levels without first...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Department of Justice touted its progress combating intellectual property theft in a progress report ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named 12 new trial court judges Tuesday, a mix of eight Republicans, three Democrat...
LOS ANGELES-A judge hit the city with another multimillion dollar judgment Monday, awarding nearly $19 million in penalties an...
LOS ANGELES - Membership peaked at 60 just before Operation Desert Storm, the war to oust Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait ...
The California Bar has revived an initiative to require lawyers to disclose to clients if they do not carry malpractice insura...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired San Francisco Superior Court Judge James Warren, whose high-profile cases included the same-sex marria...
Forum Column - By Clifford Yin - As a first-year associate with only a few weeks of law-firm experience under my belt, I found...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Property rights. It's the issue of the day - every day. It is hard to pick up a newspape...
Constitutional Law
A Delicate Balance: The Exigent-Circumstances Exception
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - The hottest topic in search-and-seizure law this year has been the exigent-circumstance...
SACRAMENTO - Advocates of the Proposition 36 drug-treatment program accused a lawmaker Monday of trying to sneak into the budg...
LOS ANGELES - Greenberg Traurig has hired Paul Schumacher to lead a broker-dealer securities litigation practice for the firm'...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld a California policy that subjects parolees to warrantless, suspicionless ...
Firm Watch
Bolstering Thelen Reid's Intellectual Property Practice in Los Angeles
By Drew Combsn
LOS ANGELES - As part of efforts to beef up its intellectual property practice in Los Angeles, Thelen Reid & Priest has an...
Judges and Judiciary
Memorial Service for Byrne Set for Friday in Los Angeles
By Alexa Hylandn
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Friday at the U.S. District Courthouse in Los Angeles for Judge William Matth...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Los Angeles environmental attorney Sandra Segal Ikuta to the 9th U.S. Circuit...
Column - By Peter Blumberg - These are ethically challenging times for state supreme court justices across the nation. The be...