Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation Panel Does Well on Diversity, Balance
By Eric Berkowitzn
I beg to disagree with Elizabeth A. Moreno (LADJ, Oct. 10, "L.A. Court Must Do Better to Be Inclusive, Equal on Mediators"). ...
Known for his compassion, San Diego County Superior Court Judge Alvin E. Green Jr. is making his mark in drug court, where he ...
LOS ANGELES - Ted Marx was one of the highest-performing commissioned sales executives at Storage Technology Corp. But in 2001...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney and television commentator Daniel Horowitz lost his wife to a teenage killer a year ago, and he talke...
SAN FRANCISCO - A deal's a deal, a Sacramento judge has ruled, even if it means certain smog-causing agents will stay in Calif...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County's recently fired litigation cost manager has accused the county counsel's office of manipulat...
SAN FRANCISCO - When the rumor started buzzing around the Internet earlier this month that Google was negotiating to buy YouTu...
Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard W. Stanford Jr.'s gruff exterior reveals an independent mind, a focus on fairness a...
Real Estate/Development
Voting No on Eminent Domain Will Save Millions
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Bruce W. Beach - Playing off the national discussion on the proper limitations of the power of eminent domai...
FORUM COLUMN - By Peter Scheer - Attorney General Bill Lockyer wasted no time in indicting former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman P...
Real Estate/Development
Voluntary Waivers of Right to Protest May Be Enforceable
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By Kenneth B. Bley and Andrew K. Fogg - Parties to a number of different kinds of agreements often include prov...
SAN FRANCISCO - Legal malpractice defense lawyer Pamela Phillips never intended for a courtesy visit to Howard Rice Nemerovski...
Government
Judge Orders State to Resume Evaluating Disabled Foster Kids
By Susan Mcraen
A Los Angeles judge has ordered the state to immediately resume its evaluations of severely disabled foster children so hundre...
LOS ANGELES - Debra Wong Yang will leave the Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office with a mixed legacy that includes significant ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge tentatively ruled Tuesday that the father of a murder victim cannot take cont...
Discipline
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Judge Apologizes to Commission for Driving Drunk
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Facing ethics violations that could end her judicial career, Santa Barbara County Judge Diana R. Hall said Tue...
SAN JOSE - Another general counsel has lost his job, as two more Silicon Valley technology companies blamed their lawyers for ...
SANTA MARIA - As a young lawyer, Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge James F. Rigali decided that working in a big firm in a bi...
Government
Military Commission Act Puts U.S. Troops at Risk of Prosecution
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By David Glazier - The recent Military Commission Act, intended to bring the Guantanamo tribunals into conforma...
Mergers & Acquisitions
As Atmel Drama Plays Out, Google and YouTube Steal the Show
By Rick Kennedyn
COLUMN - Rick Kennedy - In this, the year of the behemoth buyout, a $1.6 billion deal isn't the bombshell it used to be. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Prosecutor Says Gang Member Meant to Shoot Rival
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - On the opening day of an alleged cop killer's trial, a prosecutor told a San Francisco jury Monday that gang m...
WASHINGTON - The city of Berkeley received welcome news from the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday when the justices announced they...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation of Patent Disputes Offers More Options Than Litigation Does
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Karen Boyd - Mediation is often seen as best-suited for "soft," "emotional" disputes - family law, landlord-...
RIVERSIDE - The chief of the U.S. attorney's Riverside office has been appointed a magistrate judge by U.S. District Court jud...
LOS ANGELES - Funeral arrangements are pending for Grace C. Quinn, co-founder of the Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center, one...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists have suffered a major setback in their attempt to use the state's once-powerful Unfair Compe...
SANTA ROSA - A quiet prosecutor is like a shy actor. You don't find them very often, but when you do they may surprise you wit...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge accepted a plea agreement Monday in the criminal case against Ralphs Grocery Co. for illegal act...
SAN JOSE - Compared with other companies caught up in backdating investigations, UnitedHealth Group Inc. took a much more open...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Counsel Raymond G. Fortner Jr. unexpectedly fired the county's litigation cost manager withou...