LOS ANGELES - Six months after the Kern School District stopped East Bakersfield High School students from publishing a serie...
SAN FRANCISCO - Eric Grover, the former managing partner of Littler Mendelson's San Francisco office, has left the firm and h...
LOS ANGELES - Six law firms in California have merged in the first three quarters of this year, matching the total for the sta...
Appellate Practice
Troubles Pile Up for Disgraced Lawyer - Inmate Can Sue Him
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has given a Folsom State Prison inmate a second chance at suing his former appellate law...
LOS ANGELES - Members of an association of Los Angeles County prosecutors are accusing their leader of cozying up to the depu...
MORE JUDGE TRAINING -- Trial judges may be going back to school. The Judicial Council of California has approved a model for m...
On The Move - Ropes & Gray has promoted firmwide seven associates to partner, including Gregory C. Davis in the firm's San...
Labor/Employment
Mental Exam Requests Require Scrutiny to Protect Privacy Interests
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - This article shall explore some of the issues associated with defense mental exami...
SACRAMENTO - Phillip Wasserman wanted to support a Republican star. Ron Book was helping out a friend's in-law. And the partne...
SACRAMENTO - A tiny union that represents state lawyers and administrative law judges has ripped a seam in the tightly woven u...
LOS ANGELES - Mediator Stefan M. Mason has a knack for telling the right story at exactly the right time to ease tension in a ...
Government
'City of Churches' Will Vote to Restore Cross to Seal
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
REDLANDS - When the American Civil Liberties Union threatened to sue Redlands last year, officials in the town southeast of Sa...
Personal Injury & Torts
Family Wins Record Settlement Of $22.6 Million for Toxic Mold
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - A family has won a record $22.6 million settlement in a construction defect case that alleged toxic mold in the...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - In more than a third of new births in the United States, the mother of the child is a sing...
Judges and Judiciary
Case Presents Black-and-White Litmus Test For Nominee Alito
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - One of the most persistent and contentious issues that the U.S. Supreme Court repeat...
LOS ANGELES - In her 20 years as deputy district attorney, Laura F. Priver focused her energy on arguing cases. After only 10 ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lost amid news of President Bush's $7.1 billion proposal to develop and stockpile anti-flu drugs and medicatio...
Litigation
University of California Students Sue Regents Over Tuition Hike
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - Andrea Luquetta says the University of California Regents pulled a bait and switch: they hiked her UCLA Law Scho...
Fourm Column - By Edward H. Telfeyan - In the summer of 1973, as the nation was about to become aware of a presidential scanda...
DISBARMENTS Gordon, Robert Lewis, El Cajon RESIGNATIONS Sheehan, Kenneth R., Las Vegas, Nev. Vitale, Angelo M., Sacramento SUS...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Black Bar Group Holds Criminal Justice Symposium in L.A.
By Drew Combs
LOS ANGELES - For the first time in more than a decade, the National Bar Association is holding one of its annual gatherings ...
LOS ANGELES - Despite his 35 years of experience in the criminal justice system, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Norm J. Shap...
Forum Column - by Clay Calvert - Fans of the iconic 1990s television situation comedy "Seinfeld" may recall a particular episo...
Letter to the Editor - Let me begin by stating that I am a Republican and a strong supporter of President Bush. That being sai...
International
Nicaraguans Didn't Consent to Jurisdiction in Pesticide Case
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Saralyn M. Ang-Olson - When manufacturers of a toxic pesticide, dibromochloropropane - known as DBCP - attem...
Judges and Judiciary
Conservative Ponders Other Possibility for High Court Pick
By Columnist
Letter to the Editor - In the days leading up to Judge [Samuel] Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court, the press was reporti...
SAN FRANCISCO - McKesson Corp. has reached a settlement with two Merrill Lynch funds in a case that alleged the embattled comp...
SAN FRANCISCO - The children of a well-known building contractor who was beaten to death at his San Francisco business in 2003...
WASHINGTON - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., urged a leading California congressman on Wednesday to prevent legislation that ...
SAN FRANCISCO - More than a month after three Los Angeles law firms hiked first-year associate salaries to $135,000, other fir...