Judges and Judiciary
S.F. Hall of Justice Caught With Its Guard Down
By Dennis Opatrnyn
SAN FRANCISCO - The secret that everyone knew and joked about is out: San Francisco's Hall of Justice is one insecure building.
LOS ANGELES - The Palo Alto-based law firm Cooley Godward is in merger talks with Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan, a 90-a...
LOS ANGELES - As the deputy city attorney whose job is improving everyday life in the 14 square miles making up the Los Angele...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the weeks ahead, a Contra Costa jury will decide whether 17-year-old Scott Dyleski is a troubled young man ...
LOS ANGELES - Some lawyers prepare for retirement by purchasing sailboats or houses in Hawaii. Roy Wuchitech spent the last th...
Law Practice
Securities Litigator Jumps at Chance to Join Jones Day
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Gidon M. Caine attended a Jones Day partnership retreat at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel last month while th...
Focus Column - On public-policy grounds, the California Supreme Court confirmed the right of consumers to file putative classw...
On the Move - Seyfarth Shaw has added David B. Roseman and Mark Mengelberg as partners to the firm's San Francisco office.
Forum Column - Beginning in 1994, California began a crackdown on juvenile crime. The age at which juvenile offenders could be...
SAN FRANCISCO - Court-appointed appellate counsel representing indigent defendants in criminal and juvenile cases will get a $...
SAN FRANCISCO - Following months of frustration trying to get a global compensation practice off the ground at a national law ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Gun Control 13 Years After Law Firm Massacre
By David Minkown
Forum Column - Approximately 13 years have passed since the Bay Area legal community was shaken by an assault-weapon massacre ...
SACRAMENTO - The race for California attorney general has taken a new twist with tort reformers pushing to weed out "activist"...
Judges and Judiciary
Trial Judges, AOC Search for Common Ground on Training
By Savannah Blackwelln
SAN FRANCISCO - George Abdallah says he did not expect to detonate a political bomb this spring when he, with other members of...
Large Firms
Estate Lawyer Reunites With O'Melveny Colleagues at Loeb
By Robert Iafolla
LOS ANGELES - By joining Loeb & Loeb as a partner earlier this month, attorney Regina I. "Ginger" Covitt reunited with her...
International
Federal Court Says Nations Waive Immunity in Patent Negotiations
By Anna Oberthurn
Foreign nations that have engaged in patent licensing negotiations in the United States waive their sovereign immunity and can...
LOS ANGELES - Fifty-five miles north of downtown, amid scrub and Joshua trees, gleams the Michael D. Antonovich Antelope Valle...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Electronic Frontier Foundation and civil liberties groups around the country are in an uproar over legisla...
California's privacy laws mean what they say, regardless of other states' laws, the state Supreme Court made clear Thursday. ...
HUNTINGTON BEACH - Managing to compare the country's high court with baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, U.S. Chief Justice John G. ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Arabian Knight: Taking Risks to Make a Difference
By Peter Zuckermann
LOS ANGELES - They executed Armand Arabian's grandfather by firing squad. Then the Turkish soldiers drove his grandmother fr...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Arabian Knight: Taking Risks to Make a Difference
By Peter Zuckermann
LOS ANGELES - They executed Armand Arabian's grandfather by firing squad. Then the Turkish soldiers drove his grandmother fr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A suspicious bundle near outdoor news racks closed the Hall of Justice on Thursday for nearly two hours before...
Zoning, Planning and Use
County's Limits on Water Use Were Not a Taking of Property
By David Minkown
Focus Column - In California's first comprehensive land-use taking case since the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Li...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Activism Gets Reproof in Recent Gay-Marriage Rulings
By David Minkown
Forum Column - Defenders of the institution of traditional marriage were encouraged by three state-court decisions in the past...
In Chambers - The final tally in the Imperial County election, too close to call five weeks ago, gives the victory to Superior...
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan on Thursday announced the creation of a joint task force with the FBI to ...
Labor/Employment
Supreme Court Expands Protections Against Employer Retaliation
By David Minkown
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent love affair with employment retaliation cases continued on June 22 with a monumental decision ...
LOS ANGELES - San Diego District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis and Howard B. Miller, a former Los Angeles school board president,...
Large Firms
Pillsbury Resolves Century City Problem, Gives Goodwin Office
By Drew Combsn
LOS ANGELES - Goodwin Procter and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman are modern American law firms but the intrigue and maneuveri...