Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - On June 6, the voters of Los Angeles County voted out an incumbent Los Angeles Superior Co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Finance specialty firm Chapman and Cutler celebrated its two-year anniversary in the California market by gift...
LOS ANGELES - Kenneth Krekorian, a veteran attorney in the Los Angeles County Dependency Court system, has been chosen to head...
Public Interest
Bay Area Losing Repository of Public-Interest Law
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Venerable public interest litigator Peter H. Reid is quitting the Bay Area and retiring to the verdant expanse...
LOS ANGELES - Adding to a long list of woes, Milberg, Weiss, Bershad & Schulman lost another partner on Friday when David ...
Judges and Judiciary
Naming a Reason for Judge's Defeat Defies Labels of First Impression
By Martin Bergn
LOS ANGELES - What's in a name? Judge not, lest ye be judged. These are two of the reactions to Los Angeles Superior Court Ju...
LOS ANGELES - Richards Watson & Gershon associate Patrick K. Bobko comes from a family of public servants. ...
Product Liability
Judge Puts Off Her Decision on Severing of Vioxx Cases
By Bobbi Murrayn
LOS ANGELES - In law, you win a few, you lose a few and sometimes you have to have to wait a few agonizing extra days to see w...
Litigation
A $10 Million Defense Can't Spare City $30 Million Verdict
By David Houstonn
LOS ANGELES - Almost four years after firing an investigator who questioned whether hired-gun lawyers from a politically conne...
LOS ANGELES - After a depressed and ailing Compton auto mechanic was found hanging by a bed sheet in Los Angeles County Jail, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ten years ago, half a dozen women working for Ralphs supermarkets hired the same San Francisco lawyer who had ...
With an impeccably tied, color-coordinated turban and a good suit, Navneet Singh Chugh visibly signals that he is proudly and ...
With its fluorescent lighting and bare cement floors, Commissioner Anthony B. Drewry's courtroom at the Sylmar Juvenile Courth...
Laurence Goldberg joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as a partner in the firm's San Francisco office.
DISBARMENTS - Richard Anthony Sbeglia, 53, New York (May 10) - Sbeglia was summarily disbarred after his criminal conviction i...
NAPA - After practicing law for nearly a quarter-century in Napa County, Rodney G. Stone was ready for a different perspective...
Administrative/Regulatory
Crumbling Courthouses Fall Through the Budgetary Cracks
By Bobbi Murrayn
LOS ANGELES - Wags around the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles are quick to point out advantages of the buildin...
Forum Column - By Peter R. Jarvis, David J. Elkanich, Rene C. Holmes, and Allison D. Rhodes - Disciplinary Rule 7 of the 1969 ...
Focus Column - By Kirk Pasich - In recent years, a substantial number of lawsuits have been filed against the directors and of...
Labor/Employment
New York Court Applies Noncompete Clause to California Employee
By Amy Kalinn
Employment Column - By Anthony J. Oncidi and Beverly R. Frank - In a breathtaking new ruling, a federal court in New York enjo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Litigants in an apparently unprecedented water pollution case have charted an aggressive timetable for testing...
Judges and Judiciary
Child Porn Scandal Leads Agency to Ban Ex-Judge
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The state Commission on Judicial Performance on Thursday publicly censured former Orange County Superior Court Jud...
SACRAMENTO - Irving Perluss still goes to the office every day. That might be considered unremarkable except for the fact tha...
Litigation
Judge Tentatively Dismisses Part of Suit Against Tip Sharing
By Jim Adamekn
SAN DIEGO - A class action challenging Starbucks' practice of allowing supervisors to share employees' tips won't go to trial ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Nearly All Partners Approve Merger of Reed and Richards
By Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly 100 percent of the partners at Reed Smith and London-based Richards Butler have approved a union betwee...
SAN FRANCISCO - After a murder witness under her protection was gunned down by masked men last month, San Francisco District A...
SAN FRANCISCO - While the overall cost of being a public company decreased in 2005, audit fees and other compliance expenses a...
WASHINGTON - In a significant victory for police and prosecutors, a deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that judg...
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego judge this week signed off on $161 million in legal fees to plaintiffs' lawyers who won the record $3....
WASHINGTON - When landlords and tenants fall out, they go to a judge. But what happens when the disgruntled tenant is the jud...