Administrative/Regulatory
Language Held Hostile, the Right to Counsel and the High Court
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Devallis Rutledge - President Bush has made his determination perfectly clear: "We cannot let terrorists and...
LOS ANGELES - Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has added civil litigator Dana J. Dunwoody to its business trial practi...
SAN DIEGO - San Diego law firm Sullivan Wertz McDade & Wallace has changed its name to Wertz McDade Wallace Moot & Br...
LOS ANGELES - Concerned about nonviolent offenders receiving disproportionate sentences under the state's three-strikes law, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Celebrity divorce attorney Stacy D. Phillips has seen a lot of arguments in her 22 years of counseling high-pr...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider a right-to-counsel dispute involving a Southern California t...
SANTA BARBARA - A Santa Barbara jury awarded a longtime Auto Club employee $1.2 million Friday in a disability discrimination ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys marvel at the harmony Los AngelesCounty Superior Court Commissioner Gary Bounds was able to orchestrat...
LOS ANGELES - Hydee R. Feldstein, a partner in Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker's corporate group, will depart the firm to...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Declares Mistrial After $1 Million Verdict for Nurses
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VICTORVILLE - Citing jury misconduct, a Superior Court judge Friday threw out a $1 million verdict for two former nursing sup...
SAN FRANCISCO - Securities class action king Bill Lerach's firm, already under federal scrutiny in a kickback probe, must pay ...
PENSION CHARGES - An attorney for San Diego's municipal pension system and four other overseers of the retirement fund were in...
LOS ANGELES - Morrison & Foerster has announced that seven California-based attorneys have been elected to the firm's part...
THE PRICE OF IMPATIENCE - A judge's effort to kick-start a slow-moving arbitration cost a Hollywood actor and his attorney a $...
RIVERSIDE - Bryan Gonzalez's life ran aground about two years ago. That's when he lost custody of his 7-year-old son. His ex-g...
HOSPITALITY CARLSBAD - Burnham Real Estate's Capital Markets Group arranged a $35.51 million permanent loan for the refinancin...
Focus Column - By Mark Goldowitz - Last year, new amendments to the California anti-SLAPP law were enacted and took effect. Th...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez tapped San Jose federal prosecutor Christopher Sonderby on Thursday to ...
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - For years, the Legislature, under pressure from special interests, has carved out exceptions ...
Labor/Employment
Key Employment Law Resolutions Will Reduce Firms' Legal Exposure
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Employment Column - By Karen L. Gabler - With the advent of the new year, individuals and businesses alike resolve to improve ...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires - a wireta...
Judges and Judiciary
Four Veteran San Bernardino Judges Retire
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Four of San Bernardino County's most experienced Superior Court judges are retiring, a development that is e...
LOS ANGELES - A San Joaquin judge may have gotten carried away with quadrupling damages against an apple and cherry orchard th...
LOS ANGELES - Robert S. Mann is not a contractor by trade. He is a lawyer and a neutral. But he recently served as the general...
LOS ANGELES - A Santa Clarita attorney was ordered to stand trial on charges he persuaded a 15-year-old girl to masturbate ove...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles family won a $20 million product-defect settlement after a stovetipped and a pot of stew catapult...
LOS ANGELES - The district judges of the Central District of California have tapped a federal prosecutorand a federal public ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Securities and Exchange Commission finally has announced its guidelines for seeking monetary penalties aga...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Regulatory Hair-Splitting Saps State Warnings on Mercury
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - For all of its reputation as a bad actor promoting mental illness, birth defects and cancer, mercury has prove...
Judges and Judiciary
Attorneys Appreciate Having Their Feet Held to the Fire
By Don Ray
ORANGE - Probate attorneys who often appear before Orange County Superior Court Judge Marjorie Laird Carter know that the odds...