SAN FRANCISCO - As a child, Bonnie Sabraw sat entranced as her grandmother described fascinating lawsuits she worked on as leg...
Law Practice
Panel Says Jury Needn't Know That Wages Weren't Truly Lost
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The jury that awarded $108,000 to a former partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman because of a motorcycle ...
LOS ANGELES - California stands to lose $60 million in federal funding in 2007 if the state does not improve its care of abuse...
WASHINGTON - The plight of a criminal defendant whose Southern California attorney was yanked off his case in a Missouri court...
Focus Column - By Don Willenburg - The "next big thing" in California law on expert witnesses will likely be the California Su...
Administrative/Regulatory
Camus Clung Desperately to the 'Law We Carry in Our Hearts'
By Amy Kalinn
Book Review - By Gerald Sato - Albert Camus (1913-1960), the Nobel Prize-winning French author, has a reputation for morality ...
Judges and Judiciary
Letting Arbitrators Decide on Class Arbitration May Be Unwarranted
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Imre S. Szalai - Almost three years ago, in Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle, 539 U.S. 444 (2003), a sha...
LOS ANGELES - Services are pending for James P. Natoli, a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge . ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Five federal appellate judges dissented Monday from a full-court refusal to reconsider a challenge to the cons...
WASHINGTON - Tennessee railroad worker Sheila White, the only woman maintenance employee in her Memphis rail yard, complained ...
LOS ANGELES - A prominent Hollywood director and producer charged in connection with the long-running probe of former celebrit...
Administrative/Regulatory
In 'Sisters in Law,' Women Dish Up Justice in Cameroon
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - A long tradition of male domination pervades the rural village in Cameroon, but a young rape victim and a long...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors are preparing to add tax-related charges to the indictment pending against a former enterta...
LOS ANGELES - Raised under what she considers "idyllic" circumstances in Charleston, W.Va., attorney Patricia Glaser made her ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Monday rejected a Christian student group's claim that Hastings College of the Law must fund t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate panel Monday clarified that criminal defendants have the right to replace their privately re...
LOS ANGELES - An alleged victim of celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano's illegal electronic eavesdropping filed an invasi...
LOS ANGELES - Cardinal Roger Mahony must turn over files the archdiocese kept on two priests to Los Angeles prosecutors after ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals went too far in r...
WASHINGTON - Most Capitol Hill staffers appear surgically attached to their BlackBerry devices. ...
Law Practice
Tech-Savvy Capitol Hill Takes New Interest in Patent Office
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - Most Capitol Hill staffers appear surgically attached to their BlackBerry devices. Fellow pedestrians, stop sign...
SAN DIEGO -The law firm of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP signed a 10-year lease valued at $27 million for 54,187 s...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - You could call this column an open letter to Justice Anthony Kennedy. On Jan. 7, 2002, t...
LOS ANGELES - Meyers Nave, an Oakland-based public entity law firm, is expanding into Southern California and recruiting vete...
Focus Column - By Kirk A Pasich - Some insurance carriers recently have challenged whether their liability policies provide co...
WASHINGTON - There was no shortage of journalists on hand in the Supreme Court two months ago when Justice David H. Souter mad...
SAN FRANCISCO - Wrestling with the equities of barkeep grooming standards, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 7-4 Fri...
LOS ANGELES - Richard H. Rosenthal, a longtime Bay Area real estate attorney, has joined Cox, Castle & Nicholson as a part...
LOS ANGELES - Morgan Lewis & Bockius recently wrangled litigator Carla Feldman from Loeb & Loeb to join its labor and...
LOS ANGELES - Robert "R.J." Comer, a fixture on the Los Angeles political scene as an attorney representing developers, has le...