Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Californians are refining NIMBYism (Not In My Back Yard) into an art form. The concept h...
Labor/Employment
Appeals Court Elevates Ratios for Determination of Punitive Liability
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Focus Column - By Jeffrey K.Winikow - By all accounts Roger Misiolek was a horrible boss. He yelled. He berated. He threw obje...
Forum Column - By Robert S. Huie - The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that Congress can require law schools to give ...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors can proceed with their aiding-and-abetting case against prominent lawyer Pierce H. O'Donnell's secre...
LOS ANGELES - Construction law firm Peckar & Abramson has lured James L. Ferro to its Los Angeles office. Ferro came to th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named Los Angeles federal District Judge Nora M. Manella to the 2nd District Court ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Venture capitalist Arthur Rock and former Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitman partner Toni Rembe have donated $10 m...
LOS ANGELES - When Brian Ward started law school, he thought of himself as an average student. Now he's the reigning champion ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rodney E. Nelson has retired and resigned his judicial office e...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Battle Over Urban Garden Could End This Week
By Bobbi Murrayn
LOS ANGELES - The battle over a 14-acre urban garden in an otherwise-bleak South Los Angeles industrial area may come to a wh...
Constitutional Law
Principal Can't Snuff Out Teen's Bid for Bong Hits
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protects students' rights to wear black armband...
LOS ANGELES - Joel Alcox, convicted of a murder 18 years ago that he says he did not commit, appeared to be on the path to fre...
LOS ANGELES - As an aspiring young writer, Harvey A. Silberman came to Hollywood straight out of college to break into show bu...
Judges and Judiciary
For Judge, It All Started With Sacco and Vanzetti
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Cynthia Ming-Mei Lee came to the law through an unusual route, taking inspi...
Foley & Mansfield has named Lori A. Cataldo a partner in the firm's San Francisco office. Cataldo has experience in asbest...
HAYWARD - Sometimes, life really does change in the blink of an eye - or the flash of a knife. At least it did for Alameda Su...
After a 26-year judicial career and 13 years as a neutral, retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Philip M. Saeta fou...
LOS ANGELES - Services for Burton H. "Burt" Ward, founder of Goldstein & Ward in La Habra, will take place Saturday in Ful...
LOS ANGELES - A Palos Verdes attorney was arrested Thursday on charges he embezzled $150,000 from an elderly woman who once s...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Legal Genes Spur Career, Community Activism
By Drew Combs
Forum Column - By Timothy Sandefur - Americans reacted with outrage last summer when the Supreme Court announced that local go...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Tuesday for William C. Farrer, a retired partner at Los Angeles-based Hill, Farrer &...
Labor/Employment
Policymakers, Take Note: The Force Is With Workplace Bloggers
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Employment Column - By Stephen J. Hirschfeld and Robert S. Nelson - Bloggers broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal, fueled the spi...
Focus Column - By Jennifer Kirk - With the battle against stock-option expensing lost, companies granting stock options to emp...
SAN FRANCISCO - Nonprofit attorneys are breathing a sigh of relief after the California Supreme Court declined Thursday to req...
LOS ANGELES - Attorney John Trasvia was named interim director Thursday of the Los Angeles-based Mexican American Legal Defen...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge's ruling may prod the government closer to requiring public and private vehicle fleet owners t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A man whose computer was searched for child pornography - based largely on his subscription to a Web site that...
SANTA ANA - Movie and record companies have sued anonymous downloaders. Giant corporations have sued unidentified Web-site def...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Allen J. Webster Jr.'s court calendar is growing like rabbits in a field...