SAN BERNARDINO - Ben Gonzales, a prosecutor whose filing of murder charges against a man who confessed to killing a girl as a ...
LOS ANGELES - Charles C. Pak, who was one of the first lawyers in Kirkland & Ellis's corporate practice group in Los Angel...
Appellate Practice
9th Circuit Takes Broad View of Employee Noncompetes
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN By Anthony J. Oncidi and Benjamin Davidson In a significant new opinion regarding the ever-evolving law governin...
LOS ANGELES - With two more partners, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo continues to grow its new San Diego office. ...
LOS ANGELES - A group of dependency court lawyers has sued state court administrators seeking to void a contract that goes int...
FORUM COLUMN - By Sheila Neville and Ana Storey On July 14th in Pomona, an attorney sitting as a Los Angeles Superior Court j...
SACRAMENTO - The governor has signed a bill that would transfer regulation of unaccredited law schools and correspondence law ...
Judges and Judiciary
Former Prosecutor Sues Sheppard Mullin Over Retainer Deal
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - A former county prosecutor is suing Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, claiming current and former partner...
SAN FRANCISCO - As Dateline NBC prepared to air the newest installment of its popular show "To Catch a Predator" on Friday nig...
WASHINGTON - Federal court rulings in patent disputes are reversed on appeal at a startlingly high rate - about 30 percent. ...
Here's one way for a divorce attorney to get a favorable divorce settlement for a client: pose as the opposing counsel and fil...
The wheels of justice grind slowly in Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Peter Spinetta's courtroom, but attorneys don't...
Gordon & Rees announced the addition of three partners in the firm's San Diego office.
Judicial Profile
Even on Dusty Ball Fields of Youth, His Eye Was on the Law
By Amelia Hansen
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Orange County Superior Court Judge Joy Wiesenfeld Markman, who presides over a juvenile delinquency court, believes it's up t...
LOS ANGELES - The Hewlett-Packard boardroom leak scandal claimed its second lawyer Thursday when Ann O. Baskins, longtime gene...
Insurance
Insurer Learns It Can't Wriggle Out of Its Duty to Defend
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By Daniel Lee Jacobson The words used in the law are sometimes clear in meaning, yet confusing in sound. But n...
LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson and his ex-wife have reached a settlement in a custody battle over their two children that began...
Environmental
Proposed Procedural Changes in Asbestos Cases Raise Alarm
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - The plaintiffs' as well as the defense bar are up in arms over proposed changes to procedures in how asbestos ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediators Must Learn to Give Tough Love
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Jeff Kichaven In response to my Aug. 14 article ("What Attorneys Want in Mediators and How to Provide It"),...
Judges and Judiciary
WEB EXCLUSIVE - Judge Considers Consequences for S.F. Housing Authority
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge on Thursday discussed putting the city's Housing Authority into receivership or bankruptcy in addition...
LOS ANGELES - Families of victims of a 2005 commuter-train derailment that killed 11 people and injured more than 100 others w...
FORUM COLUMN - By K. Hollyn Hollman With religious wars raging around the globe, it seems an especially inopportune time to t...
SACRAMENTO - A management company contracted to run an Indian casino can be sued by workers for sexual harassment and gender d...
Labor/Employment
When Free Speech and the Establishment Clause Collide in the Workplace
By Eric Berkowitzn
EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Kere Tickner and Joshua Bordin-Wosk A further chapter has been written on the topic of balancing empl...
Judges and Judiciary
Federal Judge Considers Other Forms of Lethal Injections
By Laura Ernden
SAN JOSE - The federal judge scrutinizing California's lethal injection procedure explored Thursday whether a single overdose ...
SANTA ANA - A Nebraska company must pay $23.4 million to a teenage boy severely brain-damaged in an auto accident because a co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Chicago law firm Schiff Hardin will gain a West Coast presence by acquiring civil litigation boutique Morgenst...
Judges and Judiciary
Roberts Court Has Plenty of Fissile Ground to Cover
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Chapter Two of the Roberts Court begins next week when the Supreme Court returns for a new term stocked with hot-...
WASHINGTON - All the major players in the Hewlett-Packard Company boardroom leak scandal appeared before Congress Thursday, bu...