Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - Jose Padilla, an American citizen, had an extensive criminal record when he converted to...
Technology & Science
For Good E-Discovery, Tech Know-How Goes Only So Far
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Andrew P. Li - The fact that electronic discovery is essential and prevalent in the legal practice has now b...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for business and finance attorney Lawrence H. Greaves. Greaves, managing partner of en...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley's fellow prosecutors have refused to endorse his bid to reform the st...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Starts Taking Over Fake Law Firms
By Savannah Blackwell
SAN FRANCISCO - For decades, the State Bar was powerless to do anything about the charlatans who pretended to be attorneys - m...
SAN FRANCISCO - Last week was rough for California police officers with knee and leg injuries. On Friday, the 3rd District Cou...
SACRAMENTO - Karen Getman, former chairwoman of the state's Fair Political Practices Commission, has been named a partner in ...
LOS ANGELES - A coalition of parents, teachers and civil rights groups has filed court papers, seeking to oppose lawsuits chal...
LOS ANGELES - Score one for Goliath. Or more precisely, score three for Goliath. That is the number of partners that recently...
LOS ANGELES - UCLA School of Law has a secret admirer. The school received a $1 million gift from an anonymous alumnus to end...
WESTMINSTER - In the dark, early-morning hours of Nov. 8, 2004, Jacqueline Anderson was found seven miles from the Santa Ana r...
Litigation
If Snowballs Fly on the Slopes, So Can Lawsuits Against Them
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Snowboarders beware: Getting into a snowball fight while speeding down a mountain might just get you sued. The ...
Judges and Judiciary
High Expectations, Patience Serve All Appearing in Court
By Don Ray
LOS ANGELES -It's not uncommon for Judge Thomas I. McKnew Jr. to lecture the first potential juror of the day who tries to get...
OK FOR DOMESTIC PARTNERS - California's domestic partnership laws do not violate Proposition 22, the voter initiative defining...
LOS ANGELES - Carroll, Burdick & McDonough has named Raymond Tittmann and Gregg Adam partners in the firm's San Francisco ...
LOS ANGELES - The Long Beach Bar Association recently honored Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Richard W. Lyman Jr. and...
New Foley Associates Will Make $135,000 Foley & Lardner on Friday became the latest firm to announce it would boost associ...
PALM SPRINGS - A political battle is looming for Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, and his likely opponents ...
Judges and Judiciary
Public Service Called Commercial Litigator to the Bench
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - After spending his first two years on the bench in the foreign legal territory of misdemeanor criminal and family c...
Personal Injury & Torts
Work Injury Liability Rests On Who Is in Control of Site
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Lawrence R. Booth - Since 1993, the law governing the liability of a general contractor for injuries to an e...
Forum Column - By Robert S. Huie - Every Feb. 1, roughly one-third of California attorneys must certify their compliance with ...
Marketing
Marketing Materials Won't Succeed Without Vigorous Pursuit of Clients
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Focus Column - By Gunnar Birgisson - A friend at another law firm told me about a discussion from a recent firm meeting. The i...
LOS ANGELES - An Irvine health care products company won $265 million in the settlement of a patent case over equipment used ...
SAN FRANCISCO - As a journalist in Alaska, I was dispatched to a small fishing village called Cordova the day after a federal ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Kenneth W. Starr, dean of Pepperdine University's law school, planned today to petition Gov. Arnold Schwarzene...
SACRAMENTO - State Sen. Joe Dunn, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had to ask several questions to learn how the S...
LOS ANGELES - In what a state appellate panel called "an unfortunate but blessedly rare" occurrence, the justices have affirm...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court criticized Ventura police for conducting a "classic fishing expedition" by searching a...
LOS ANGELES - Scott Douglas never finds his work as a mediator boring. Every day brings an interesting problem to solve, he sa...
Judges and Judiciary
Switch to Civil Cases Proves Easily Surmountable Hurdle
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Jay M. Bloom was an experienced appellate attorney in 1986 when he went to the U.S. Supreme Court to argue a deat...