Immigration
Judicial Conference Weighs in Against Immigration Court
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - A national group that speaks on behalf of federal judges is asking lawmakers to drop plans to push all immigrati...
LOS ANGELES - A father whose teenage son shot and killed two students and wounded 13 others at a San Diego area high school in...
CALIFORNIA - Newmeyer & Dillion has added four associates to its roster. Joining the firm's Newport Beach office are Adrie...
DISBARMENTS Cutler, Stephan Z., Long Beach Dorfman, Daniel Blaine, La Quinta Harrington, Mylik R., Los Angeles SUSPENSIONS Hro...
LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has selected longtime Deputy Federal Public Defender Sean K. Kennedy as th...
SAN DIEGO - Laboratory Corp. of America leased 109,780 square feet of research-and-development space in the Sabre Springs Busi...
RED BLUFF - Just beyond a grove of walnut trees huddled together against the chill of a late winter day and across the street ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Being 'Caught in the Middle' Inspires a Career
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran mediator Susan W. Haldeman knows a lot about seeing both sides of the story. She's been doing it her w...
Labor/Employment
Federal Law Protects National Guardsmen's Jobs at Home While They Serve
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Stephen P. Wiman - Since 9/11, some 18,000 Californians have served abroad in the California National G...
Letters, Constitutional Law
Chemerinsky's Outdated Liberalism a Wasted Read
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - I am writing in response to Erwin Chemerinsky's predictable attack ("Court Snubs Free Speech to Bow to ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
High Court Reaffirms Separate Enforceability of Arbitration Pacts
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Peter E. Perkowski and Stephen R. Smerek - The U.S. Supreme Court recently reaffirmed that arbitration claus...
LOS ANGELES - Renzo Pietrobon may have thought he was doing his business attorney a favor when he lent him $100,000 back in 19...
SANTA ANA - In 1970, Michael Brenner was a brand-new deputy district attorney in Los Angeles assigned to the "run." Each week,...
SAN FRANCISCO - The government can seize money from a Los Angeles defendant's retirement account for restitution damages becau...
LOS ANGELES - With mixed results in cases tried in other states, plaintiffs and defense lawyers in the Vioxx litigation appare...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Tony Brass once wore a bulletproof vest and carried a weapon during ...
SAN DIEGO - One Superior Court judge has retired, and a second says he'll step down from the bench early in April.
Law Practice
McLean v. Volpe, Brown, Whelan Asset Management et al. - $13.4 million
By Kenneth Davis
PLAINTIFF POWER - James McLean learned that being left out of the loop can be very hard on one's wallet: $8.3 million, to be e...
Judges and Judiciary
Traveling Man Explores States, Countries, Marathons
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - When Craig J. Mitchell was a teacher at Junipero Serra High School in South Los Angeles, he spent his summers on...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo sued the owner of two downtown residency hotels Wednesday, demanding...
LOS ANGELES - When an 11-year-old boy was busted for allegedly pinching a girl's butt in gym class in rural Butte County, law ...
LOS ANGELES - Facing serious criminal charges in connection with the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping probe, entertainment lawyer...
PLAINTIFF POWER - For attorney Michael J. Piuze, the outcome of Cory v. Ford Motor Co., BC275178 (San Bernardino Super. Ct., v...
SAN FRANCISCO - Angela Chan remembers struggling in elementary school. As the Oregon-born daughter of Chinese immigrants, she ...
Product Liability
State Initiative Barring Punitive Damages Must Be Defeated
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - An initiative to bar California state courts from assessing punitive damages in product-li...
Native Americans
Senate Bill Is Yet Another Unconstitutional Taking From Lytton Tribe
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - The history of the founding of our country and of the years afterward is replete with ug...
PLAINTIFF POWER - Jessica L. Grant, an associate at the Furth Firm in San Francisco, had a big win for her first case working ...
PLAINTIFF POWER - The trial lasted four weeks and at times included dense testimony from disputing antitrust economists and fe...
PLAINTIFF POWER - Karate champion Billy Blanks punched his former attorney and firm with a malpractice case that resulted in a...
PLAINTIFF POWER - Elizabeth Dominguez, a 4-year-old San Franciscan, died instantly and violently when a city worker driving a ...