LOS ANGELES - Owning a BlackBerry hand-held computer has changed the way litigator Robert Schaberg does business. "I live and...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Jewish inmate who was forced to share a cell with anti-Semitic prisoners on several occasions may pursue hi...
Administrative/Regulatory
Court Beaches Malibu's Settlement With Developer
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The Malibu City Council violated the state's open meeting law by agreeing behind closed doors to a settlement wi...
LOS ANGELES - Frustrated by stalled contract negotiations, 1,000 Los Angeles County deputy probation officers called in sick ...
LOS ANGELES - State lawmakers violated Proposition 103 when they passed legislation in 2003 allowing automobile insurance carr...
Judges and Judiciary
Winning Court Administrator 'Can't Believe It's Really Work'
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Sam Hamrick is a lawyer who found a place in the legal system but doesn't practice law. He's the clerk of the U.S...
Probate
Justices Will Review Reversal of Anna Nicole Smith's Judgment
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Anna Nicole Smith's long-running, headline-grabbing legal saga over her husband's fortune got a new lease on life...
WASHINGTON - Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who announced her retirement in July, likely will serve on the U.S. Supreme Court at...
OFFICE SANTA CLARA - Pacific Coast Capital purchased the Regency Plaza, a 13-story office tower at 2350 Mission College Blvd.,...
Intellectual Property
It's Likely Curtains for Lemelson's Abuse of Patent System
By Columnist
Forum Column - By George M. Sirilla - In its Sept. 9 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the ...
Letter to the Editor - I, for one, am just about fed up with the intelligent-deficient who cling to the view that the Constitu...
Letter to the Editor - In his Op-Ed piece of Sept. 19 ("Rally 'Round Pledge: It Doesn't Threaten Religious Liberty," Daily Jou...
Appellate Practice
Amicus Briefs Must Provide Courts With Real Assistance
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Alycia A. Degen and Catherine Valerio Barrad - More than 85 amicus briefs were filed with th...
SAN FRANCISCO - The first of 40 cases nationwide that charges Wal-Mart Stores Inc. with workplace violations went to trial in ...
LOS ANGELES - On Saturday, Loyola Law School will put the civil justice system on trial for its life. In response to charges t...
Litigation
Citing Legal Fees, Judge Stalls Oracle CEO's Unusual Insider Trading Settlement
By Craiq Anderson
REDWOOD CITY - A proposed settlement of an insider trading lawsuit that would have resolved the case by allowing Oracle Corp. ...
Column - By Garry Abrams - For a month, superlawyer David Boies, the famed attorney who prosecuted Microsoft for antitrust vio...
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who was badly burned recently when a PG&E electrical transformer exploded in San Francisco's Finan...
MULTIFAMILY NAPA - Montrachet, a 200-unit luxury apartment community, was sold for $45 million by BayRock Financial to First ...
Labor/Employment
Prevent Lawsuits by Providing Benefits to Domestic Partners
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jan Vaughn Mock - You may think things are ticking along just fine in your client's busines...
Labor/Employment
Employers May Debit Exempt Workers for Part-Day Absences
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Teresa Tracy - In a dramatic departure from the position that has been espoused by the Cali...
LOS ANGELES - Santa Monica attorneys Dennis Mullen and John Jakle decided they could better serve their clients if they moved ...
SAN DIEGO - A federal appellate court on Friday said defense lawyers and federal judges had failed to deliver justice for a S...
SAN FRANCISCO - Portland, Ore.-based Bullivant Houser Bailey has merged with Sacramento's Bartel Eng & Schroder, bringing...
LOS ANGELES - Glenn W. Trost, former managing partner of Coudert Brothers' Los Angeles office, has departed for a partner pos...
SAN FRANCISCO - A nationally known advocate for juvenile justice has left Columbia Legal Services in Seattle to join Oakland'...
SAN FRANCISCO - When she was appointed 10 years ago to the Monterey County bench at age 35, Superior Court Judge Marla O. Ande...
SAN FRANCISCO - The trustee representing the bankruptcy estate of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison is trying to close another ...
Litigation
Church, Plaintiffs' Attorneys Propose Binding Arbitrations
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - Frustrated by lack of progress in three years of settlement talks, lawyers for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of...
SAN DIEGO - By late afternoon, only two cases remained of the dozens that Superior Court Judge Charles G. Rogers had faced sev...