SAN FRANCISCO - Western law firms first looked to China to take advantage of white-hot opportunities for cross-border trade an...
Forum Column - By Matthew Belloni - Finally, Arnold hit them where it hurts. The governor has armed Hollywood's creative commu...
Forum Column - By Robert D. Richards - What's in a name? The answer is plenty, if you grow grapes or make wine in the Napa Val...
Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Motions in limine are commonly used tools of trial advocacy. Indeed, such motions are ...
LOS ANGELES - Civil rights attorney Nancy Ramirez, a staff lawyer for the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice, has been na...
LOS ANGELES - John "Mitch" Mitchell, a former partner with Katten Muchin Rosenman in Los Angeles and Palo Alto, has joined Je...
Litigation
Attorney Contends Indictment Is Retaliation for Earlier Client
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Responding to the three-count indictment of Joseph G. Cavallo for allegedly taking part in a bail bonds referral...
WASHINGTON - A local employment dispute at the Los Angeles County district attorney's office could have national free-speech i...
OFFICE YORBA LINDA - VIASYS committed to a 130,000-square-foot, 10-year relocation/renewal and a 30,000-square-foot expansion...
Judges and Judiciary
Economic Case Could Provide Clues on Role of Stare Decisis
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Sunny Brenner - The Supreme Court's recent vacancies have stirred speculation about the potential willingnes...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - As someone who argued four cases in front of varying compositions of the U.S. Supreme Co...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Lineage in Law, Mediation Bolsters Neutral
By Kenneth Davis
LOS ANGELES - Mediation comes naturally to Kim Deck. "I've always been interested in helping people solve problems, even when ...
LOS ANGELES - A recent appellate opinion "pretty much ignored about 150 years of California case law dealing with wrongful de...
LOS ANGELES - A Court of Appeal panel on Thursday upheld a home-invasion robbery, burglary, murder and arson conviction, even...
LOS ANGELES -A San Luis Obispo County obstetrician claimed a local newspaper article that referred to his alleged "sexual imp...
LOS ANGELES -The State Bar has launched an investigation of two prominent former federal prosecutors in connection with their ...
Media
East Bay Consulting Firm Takes Shot at Florida Deadly Force Law
By Linda Rapattoni
SAN FRANCISCO - An East Bay legal consulting firm is taking shots at a new Florida law, dubbed "Stand Your Ground" by supporte...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has dealt a damaging and possibly fatal blow to a civil lawsuit accusing a public defender of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Online tobacco buyers beware: State tax officials are now forcing delivery companies to provide customers' nam...
MULTIFAMILY CLAREMONT - Claremont Palms, Spring Hill Garden and Southridge Apartments sold for a total of $29.4 million. GMAC...
Forum Column - By David Steinberg - In naming John G. Roberts Jr. and Harriet E. Miers as his first two Supreme Court appointm...
Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - Fall is the season of football on college campuses in California and across the United States...
SAN FRANCISCO - Litigation intended to force health warnings on a popular lunchtime staple, and which also raises fundamental ...
SAN FRANCISCO -The trustee for the bankrupt Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison wants to dispose of the mountains of documents the...
LOS ANGELES -Despite a continued push to cut down in-house and outside legal costs, most corporations remain reluctant to alt...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Will Meet to Help Lawyers Displaced by Hurricanes
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar has scheduled an emergency meeting today to urge the state Supreme Court to allow lawyers displac...
WASHINGTON - Harriet E. Miers' active role in the organized bar in Texas and in the American Bar Association shows her to be ...
Entertainment & Sports
New California Toxins: Plague of Deadly Spuds, Poisonous Paparazzi
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Pity the poor average citizen who is munching on a French fry when he or she is hit and killed by a...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court seemed sympathetic Wednesday to tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds' complaint that a $1...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared closely divided on whether the Bush administration has the authority to ...