LOS ANGELES - Lawyers Yuk K. Law and Kent T. Brandmeyer were never partners at the same firm, nor were they old law-school bu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Well, they won't have the late Humboldt County District Attorney Kenneth Newett Jr. to kick around anymore. I...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles will ask for a rehearing of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision barring police from arre...
SAN FRANCISCO - UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall admitted Eva Paterson in 1972 with a 2.7 grade point average and a Law School Admissi...
RIVERSIDE - A lawsuit four years ago charged that San Bernardino County officials treated juvenile hall inmates like "caged an...
Even after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to be tougher on prosecutors who kick minorities off juries, the Californ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles litigator Louis R. "Skip" Miller is in talks to join Boston-based Goodwin Procter, sources say. In ...
MARTINEZ - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Jill Fannin grew up in a household where body parts were often the subject...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a decision by liberal 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Step...
Column - By Garry Abrams - The other day an anonymous source approached me on the street and handed me a bulky manila envelope...
Edi M.O. Faal cuts an imposing figure. He chooses his words carefully, giving him an almost regal bearing - in marked contrast...
Labor/Employment
Casino's Grooming Rules Held as 'Essentially Equal' for Sexes
By David Minkown
Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - According to a recent 9th Circuit en banc decision, "[g]rooming st...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - "The reparations movement is grounded in the civil rights movement and the social justice mo...
SACRAMENTO - Lobbyists frequently gripe that term limits make it harder for them to get to know and understand the positions o...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived tabloid celebrity Anna Nicole Smith's long-running legal efforts to secu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Some 6 million Netflix customers will get free DVD rentals from the online service in a $70 million class acti...
Appellate Practice
Players Can't Walk Away From Games in Protest, Panel Rules
By Itir Yakarn
What are you allowed to do if your high-school basketball coach yells profanities at you and your team, throws pens and towels...
LOS ANGELES - Carlos Herrera and Enrique Arellano both slipped into the United States two decades ago and raised families. O...
SAN FRANCISCO - The government can't make a lawsuit go away simply by asserting that it might compromise national security. ...
RIVERSIDE - On the eve of a new trial, attorneys unexpectedly announced a settlement Monday in a civil case against a high-ran...
Firm Watch
Pillsbury Wisely Kept Chair on West Coast, Observers Say
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - The new leaders of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman will probably be spread between D.C., Los Angeles and San F...
LOS ANGELES - Howard Vogel, a Florida-based real estate broker, has agreed to plead guilty to perjury in connection with his ...
LOS ANGELES - More than a month after reports that merger talks with Minneapolis-based Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi wer...
Family
Politics Bastardizes Divorce-Privacy Bill Into Tool for Wiliest, Wealthiest
By David Minkown
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - It is not typical to write this column in the first person, but the topic is a bit differe...
Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - It is not uncommon in family law proceedings for the ...
LOS ANGELES - Environmental lawyer Cynthia Burch remembers watching trials at the International Court of Justice in The Hague...
The addition of a former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer to Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker's litigation depar...
LOS ANGELES - James O. Thoma, a corporate media attorney, has joined Greenberg Traurig's Santa Monica office as a shareholder...
LOS ANGELES - Syd Whalley may not seem like the most obvious choice for the Western Center on Law and Poverty's next executive...
LOS ANGELES - Jeffrey C. Briggs, a partner at Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan in Los Angeles, has been tapped to chair th...