LOS ANGELES - Best Best & Krieger has named Eric L. Garner managing partner of the firm. Garner, who practices in Best Bes...
LOS ANGELES - Leah Weil , executive vice president and general counsel for Sony Pictures Television , was awarded the inaugura...
LOS ANGELES - As a Superior Court judge on the ninth floor of downtown Los Angeles' Criminal Justice Center, Kathleen Kennedy-...
SAN FRANCISCO - The best advice for lawyers appearing before San Francisco County Superior Court Judge A. James Robertson II i...
Labor/Employment
To Pay or Not? Wages for 'Donning,' 'Doffing' Hinge on Type of Job
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Benjamin Davidson - "It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's...
Forum Column - By Julie Hilden - A recent episode of the television animated comedy "South Park" mocked Tom Cruise, suggesting...
Intellectual Property
Courts Burden Patentees With Sticking to Language of Claim
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Focus Column - By Justin Beck, Alfredo Bismonte and Jeremy Duggan - The claims are the legal definition of a patented inventio...
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - The revelation of reporter Bob Woodward's role in the CIA leak investigation posed a thorny p...
Litigation
Wrongful-Termination Suit Nets Pilot $53.8 Million Jury Award
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury awarded a pilot $53.8 million Wednesday in a wrongful-termination lawsuit against the firm t...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral Uses People Skills to Craft Resolutions
By Amy Spees
FRESNO - When Timothy Jones, a partner with Sagaser, Jones & Hahesy in Fresno, needed a mediator to settle a dispute that ...
Environmental
Judge Rejects Dairy's Attempt to Toss Clean Air Act Suit
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has cleared the way for an environmental group's multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a Centra...
LOS ANGELES - The allegations at the heart of the federal wiretap investigation of disgraced Hollywood private eye Anthony Pe...
Litigation
Air Traveler Argues for Right to Fly Free of Airline I.D. Checks
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Many U.S. airline passengers probably don't know they have the option of being searched by security personnel ...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Panel Allows Antitrust Action Against Blockbuster, Studios
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - John C. Merchant, owner of 49'er Video in Davis, says he was nearly driven out of business when Blockbuster sud...
LOS ANGELES - Governor Puts Deputy DA on Superior Court Deputy District Attorney Douglas W. Sortino was appointed Thursday to ...
SAN DIEGO - When Thomas O. LaVoy and his wife decided in 1974 to move from the East Coast to California, he converted a Dodge ...
ROCKY ROAD? - Rocky Delgadillo's chief political consultant in his bid for state attorney general has quit. Larry Grisolano le...
Government
Government Disgraces Itself by Forcing Military Bias on Schools
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Forum Column - By Larry Levine - Like a bad coin that finally gets removed from circulation, we are hopefully on the verge of ...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers are praising a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposal to allow public companies to communicate...
LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Performance started formal proceedings Wednesday against Los Angeles Superior Court ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Mark Geragos said Wednesday that he will ask the state's highest court to temporarily halt the publica...
LOS ANGELES - In 1999, Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan pushed unsuccessfully to change the position of elected city attorney...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles attorney Ellen Batzel has the dubious distinction of being a pioneer on the wild frontier of Interne...
WASHINGTON - The federal government can withhold a portion of a person's Social Security benefits to collect on long-delinque...
LOS ANGELES - It's been eight years since Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Edward A. Ferns left his bench on the ninth ...
JUDGE CONFIRMED - Victoria Chavez, a judge for 17 years, was sworn in Wednesday as an associate justice of the 2nd District Co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ending a 23-year career in San Francisco, Morrison & Foerster chairman Keith Wetmore said Tuesday that he...
LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs' lawyer Edward L. Masry, a pugnacious environmental crusader who gained worldwide fame when Albert F...
Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - The Supreme Court recently decided to review two cases that raise important issues of ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Steps Must Be Taken to Get Court's Decision in Writing
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Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Upon timely request of any party in a bench trial, the court must issue a statement of...