LOS ANGELES - With the Democratic Party poised to take control of Congress, tort reformers were expected to fade into the back...
FORUM COLUMN - By Lauren E. Willis -Have a complaint against your mortgage company?
A California lawyer steps in to represent condemned inmates.
LOS ANGELES - In the fall of 2002, Arthur Andersen, the once-prominent accounting firm was spiraling toward its demise, a proc...
FORUM COLUMN - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Can the police engage in a warrantless search of a person's laptop just because the indi...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert S. Nelson - Just in time for the holidays, a recent decision by a California appellate court may dram...
LOS ANGELES - Bingham McCutchen bolstered its banking and finance practice by adding a pair of transactional attorneys to its ...
Law Practice
Davis Wright Plans to Acquire Washington-Based Cole Raywid
By Robert Iafolla
LOS ANGELES - Davis Wright Tremaine is set to acquire Washington, D.C.-based Cole, Raywid & Braverman, a communications an...
Litigation
In Plaintiff-Friendly District, Intel Deflects Patent Challenge
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp. has successfully fended off a patent infringement lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas potenti...
Corporate
Millionaire Labeled a Thief for Profitable Dip Into Friend's Trust
By Rebecca Beyer
LOS ANGELES - Earlier this year, investor Neil Kadisha was ranked 41 among the Los Angeles Business Journal's 50 richest Angel...
WASHINGTON - In a case that could bring a wave of changes to the world of patent law, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday expres...
FORUM COLUMN - By Timothy J. Dowling - If the rule of law and judicial restraint mean anything, they mean victory for Californ...
Judges and Judiciary
Justices Review Antitrust Liability Standard
By kristinakg@kgmllp.com
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court expressed concern Tuesday that the federal appeals court in San Francisco may have adopted...
Litigation
Appeals Court Lets Client Sue Attorney for $1 Million Lost in Legal Fight
By Laura Ernden
A state appellate court on Tuesday revived a legal malpractice suit against an Encino attorney whose client claims he goaded h...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco County Superior Court Commissioner Dorothy McMath has been immersed in probate law for two decad...
LANCASTER - As a boy, Robert A. McSorley wanted to be a doctor, not a lawyer. ...
SAN JOSE - The post-Enron rules adopted by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are trans...
Judges and Judiciary
High Court Ruling Requires Appellate Justices to Write Out Reviews of Criminal Convictions
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - The 100 or so justices who sit on California's appellate courts got hit Monday with a mandatory assignment fro...
SAN FRANCISCO - A month after Dorsey & Whitney announced plans to close its San Francisco office, Morgan Lewis & Bocki...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower-court ruling that found Ventura County civilly liable for an u...
FORUM COLUMN - By Jan L. Handzlik - Justice Department policies encourage companies to waive the protections of attorney-clien...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert G. Levy and Dawn N. Valentine - Recent media reports have been filled with news of the corporate back...
WEB EXCLUSIVE - LOS ANGELES - Milberg Weiss, the once-dominant New York class-action firm under criminal indictment for allege...
Family
Ethics Expert Hired to Oversee Changes for Dependency Court Lawyers
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Juvenile Courts Bar Association has hired a legal ethics expert to advise its members on ...
California's medical marijuana law covers pot users on the go, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Corporate
Short Week Turns Out to Be Long on Deals, Setting Another Record
By Rick Kennedyn
COLUMN - By Rick Kennedy - Last week, the thinkable happened: The record for the largest leveraged buyout in history fell - ag...
Firm Watch
Escutia Will Join Manatt Next Year to Focus on State, U.S. Government Issues
By Linda Rapattoni And Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Sen. Martha Escutia, who became the first woman to head both the state Senate and the state Assembly Judiciary co...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR - Thank you for the kind words in your article in Judicial Spotlight ("Thinking for Himself," Oct. 18).
Environmental
Railroads Head to Court Over Regional Pollution Standards
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit that could determine the extent to which regional regulators can control railroad pollution, a major...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer abruptly changed his position Monday to say the state's new sex-offender law app...