Constitutional Law
Supreme Court Puts Sentencing In California on Shaky Ground
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Criminal sentencing in California was thrown into a state of uncertainty Tuesday as the U.S. Supreme Court agreed...
WORK OF FAITH - I can go in there [to court] and bang with the best of them. If I can negotiate, OK, I can be polite and say t...
LOS ANGELES - Harp El Segundo LLC, an affiliate of the Harp Group Inc., purchased the 215-room Doubletree Hotel Los Angeles In...
Focus Column - By David H. Raizman and Kaye E. Chaffee - In Advanced Bionics Corp. v. Medtronic Inc. , 29 Cal.4th 697 (2002), ...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - On Jan. 31, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed SB 517, a bill that will allow thousands of ...
Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - With so much at stake, it's surprising Rapanos v. United States isn't getting more atte...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediators Pay It Forward to Help Nonprofit
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - A group of mediators will donate a day's pay to Dispute Resolutions Services as a way to help the organization ...
Firm Watch
Class-Action-Defense Specialist Switches to Loeb & Loeb
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
LOS ANGELES - Michael Mallow, a commercial litigator specializing in class action defense, has joined Loeb & Loeb from Ki...
LOS ANGELES Davis Polk & Wardwell has nabbed intellectual property litigator Matthew B. Lehr from Latham & Watkins to...
LOS ANGELES - Tax specialist Gary A. Herrmann is the latest partner to defect from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe to Morga...
Appellate Practice
L.A. Judge Bans Discovery Before Preliminary Hearings
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - Supervising Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David S. Wesley has banned discovery before preliminary hear...
WASHINGTON - The outcome of a U.S. Supreme Court free speech battle involving a whistle-blowing Los Angeles County prosecutor...
LOS ANGELES - Ending weeks of maneuvering over who would preside over the wiretapping, racketeering and conspiracy trial of c...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles is helping hunt for the leaker who gave the Sacramento Bee sealed cour...
SAN FRANCISCO -.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed three attorneys to the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday. Thoma...
LOS ANGELES - Shelline Bennett has joined Liebert Cassidy Whitmore as managing partner of the firm's Fresno office. Bennett wa...
SAN FRANCISCO - From a Financial District office high above San Francisco's Front Street, Covington & Burling intellectual...
Labor/Employment
Clear Majority on the Courts Says Pay Recovery Is Penalty
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Focus Column - By Steven B. Katz - A consensus of sorts has emerged to settle one of the most hotly contested issues in Califo...
Labor/Employment
16 Years Later, Act Protecting Older Workers Remains Unclear
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Employment Column - By Mary Dollarhide - Work-force reductions are a fact of American life. For the first 11 months of 2005, 1...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Sonoma Finds Balance for Species Protection and Development
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Forum Column - By Rene L. Robin - Sonoma County vineyards and vintners can breathe a sigh of relief over the decision by the U...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediator Scoots Through Riverside History
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - In the mid-1970s, Charles D. Field squared off with labor leader Cesar Chavez in a bitter contractual dispute th...
Intellectual Property
Handlebar Maker Takes Justice Into Own Hands
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
SAN FRANCISCO - Toni "TJ" Carlini Jr. has been around hogs his whole life. As the son of a chopper industry pioneer, Toni Car...
LOS ANGELES - Tom Talbot made $67,000 off a nonpublic stock tip he picked up as a board member of Fidelity National Financial...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Proposition 77 rightly made its way to the November special election ballot despi...
LOS ANGELES - While clearly distancing himself from the recent controversy surrounding the clemency petition for death-row in...
LOS ANGELES - John Stodder Jr. may be waiting to go on trial in April for fraud, but for the first time in his life, he's free...
Large Firms
Pillsbury Ups Associate Salaries While Bracing for Layoffs, Cuts
By Kevin Livingston
SAN FRANCISCO - One day after Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman managers addressed staff employees in a firmwide teleconference ...
INTERIM SUSPENSIONS - Samelson, Lawrence David , Sacramento ETHICS SUSPENSIONS Bendel, Randy E. , West Hills Krayevsky, Dmitry...
ARBITRATION RULING - Federal law trumps state law when two parties agree to arbitrate a dispute under the Federal Arbitration ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom joined former Sen. John Edwards and actor Danny Glover in a downtown rally We...