LOS ANGELES - Miller time has ended at law firm Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro. On Monday, the...
SANTA ANA - A Los Angeles jury has found the defunct international law firm Coudert Brothers committed malpractice and must pa...
Constitutional Law
False Police Report Law Won't Get Nod From Supreme Court
By Peter Blumberg
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied review of two free speech-related cases from California. The first was a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A recently published state Court of Appeal decision rejecting a farming company's demand for compensation for ...
LOS ANGELES - Ten lawyers departed the medical malpractice defense powerhouse Bonne Bridges Mueller O'Keefe & Nichols on M...
Convicted child molesters had time on their side Monday. In two unrelated cases, Los Angeles appellate panels found that a ci...
SAN FRANCISCO - Foie gras, a tasty delicacy nevertheless disdained by animal rights activists, sits at center table in a contr...
WASHINGTON - San Jose-based eBay Inc. got a boost Monday from the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that wipes out the longstanding...
SANTA ROSA - Court staffers have a nickname for Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Knoel L. Owen: Superman. Owen undoubtedly ...
LOS ANGELES - George Washington wanted to take in all the poor, needy and oppressed of the earth. Benjamin Franklin, however,...
Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - In 1990, the California Supreme Court rendered its decision in AIU Insurance Company v. Sup...
SAN FRANCISCO - Megafirm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has lost a top media defense litigator to midsized Sheppard Mullin Richte...
LOS ANGELES - Anticipating a growth spurt in Orange County, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius is launching a labor and employment gr...
LOS ANGELES - Boston, we have a problem. Prominent litigator Louis R. "Skip" Miller's lateral move to Goodwin Procter has st...
LOS ANGELES - Veteran labor and employment litigator Barbara Fitzgerald has joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius as a partner in...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's San Francisco real estate group landed a land use partner with political and bus...
SAN FRANCISCO - Greenberg Traurig's international team of mass torts litigators bolstered its bench last week by capturing a ...
LOS ANGELES - During her 18 years as an environmental lawyer, Gail Ruderman Feuer earned a reputation as a skilled negotiator,...
LOS ANGELES - In the wake of the Rampart police corruption scandal, federal officials swooped in on the Los Angeles Police Dep...
LOS ANGELES -A highly regarded former federal judge in Washington, D.C., has written the U.S. Justice Department urging prosec...
Environmental
State's Prop. 65 Authority Stripped Along With Tuna Warnings
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has delivered what could be a major blow to California's unique toxic warnings law, Prop...
SACRAMENTO - Last year, property owners around the country howled when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Connecticut city's righ...
SANTA ANA — As a young litigation associate with a couple of major Southern California law firms, Corey S. Cramin didn’t have ...
Forum Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - The right to own a home and reasonably use it is protected by the U.S. Constitution. Ho...
Kirkland & Ellis announced that Ephraim Starr has rejoined the firm from Honeywell International Inc., where he was vice p...
LOS ANGELES - When Allison Margolin was chosen to speak at her junior high school's D.A.R.E. - Drug Abuse Resistance Education...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Agencies Still Flub Basic Duty for Taking Property
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - It is very strange. One would have thought that the elementary concept that the governm...
Intellectual Property
Firms Serving Online Merchants Must Protect Themselves Legally
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - By Theodore F. Monroe, Bradley O. Cebeci and Jonathan Dekel - E-commerce and direct marketing have revolutioniz...
Letter to the Editor - I was fascinated by your May 2 article on the lawsuit against Joseph Cavallo for invasion of privacy ("...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Caring Mediator Extolls the Virtues of Diversity
By Tamadhur Alaqeeln
LOS ANGELES - Mediator Elizabeth A. Moreno is passionate about diversity. Moreno is the diversity chair of the dispute resol...