SAN FRANCISCO - Retired San Francisco Superior Court Judge James Warren, whose high-profile cases included the same-sex marria...
Forum Column - By Clifford Yin - As a first-year associate with only a few weeks of law-firm experience under my belt, I found...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Property rights. It's the issue of the day - every day. It is hard to pick up a newspape...
Constitutional Law
A Delicate Balance: The Exigent-Circumstances Exception
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - The hottest topic in search-and-seizure law this year has been the exigent-circumstance...
SACRAMENTO - Advocates of the Proposition 36 drug-treatment program accused a lawmaker Monday of trying to sneak into the budg...
LOS ANGELES - Greenberg Traurig has hired Paul Schumacher to lead a broker-dealer securities litigation practice for the firm'...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld a California policy that subjects parolees to warrantless, suspicionless ...
Firm Watch
Bolstering Thelen Reid's Intellectual Property Practice in Los Angeles
By Drew Combsn
LOS ANGELES - As part of efforts to beef up its intellectual property practice in Los Angeles, Thelen Reid & Priest has an...
Judges and Judiciary
Memorial Service for Byrne Set for Friday in Los Angeles
By Alexa Hylandn
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Friday at the U.S. District Courthouse in Los Angeles for Judge William Matth...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Los Angeles environmental attorney Sandra Segal Ikuta to the 9th U.S. Circuit...
Column - By Peter Blumberg - These are ethically challenging times for state supreme court justices across the nation. The bes...
Law Practice
Irell Lawyer Negotiated Sale of Klimt's 'Adele Bloch-Bauer I'
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer from Los Angeles negotiated the sale of the gold-encrusted Gustav Klimt masterpiece that sold for the h...
SAN FRANCISCO - One Marin County woman, thinking her divorce was final, had remarried. "How am I going to explain this to my h...
LOS ANGELES - In a move expected for months, Mark A. Neubauer announced Monday he and his team of business litigators will dep...
WASHINGTON - A high-stakes U.S. Supreme Court dispute over the Clean Water Act ended in disarray Monday as no five justices co...
LOS ANGELES - Nearly 20 years after Glendale police officers burst into Aiad Barakat's home and arrested him using a little-kn...
SAN FRANCISCO - The couple was drunk, and the sex was rough. When it was over, more than a quarter-century ago, Deborah Ellen ...
Judges and Judiciary
Newspaper Was Right to Report Story Behind Defeat of Judge
By Amy Kalinn
Letters to the Editors - As an evicted tenant of Lincoln Place Apartments in Venice, I was happy to see your June 13 article a...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - On June 6, the voters of Los Angeles County voted out an incumbent Los Angeles Superior Co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Finance specialty firm Chapman and Cutler celebrated its two-year anniversary in the California market by gift...
LOS ANGELES - Kenneth Krekorian, a veteran attorney in the Los Angeles County Dependency Court system, has been chosen to head...
Public Interest
Bay Area Losing Repository of Public-Interest Law
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Venerable public interest litigator Peter H. Reid is quitting the Bay Area and retiring to the verdant expanse...
LOS ANGELES - Adding to a long list of woes, Milberg, Weiss, Bershad & Schulman lost another partner on Friday when David ...
Judges and Judiciary
Naming a Reason for Judge's Defeat Defies Labels of First Impression
By Martin Bergn
LOS ANGELES - What's in a name? Judge not, lest ye be judged. These are two of the reactions to Los Angeles Superior Court Ju...
LOS ANGELES - Richards Watson & Gershon associate Patrick K. Bobko comes from a family of public servants. ...
Product Liability
Judge Puts Off Her Decision on Severing of Vioxx Cases
By Bobbi Murrayn
LOS ANGELES - In law, you win a few, you lose a few and sometimes you have to have to wait a few agonizing extra days to see w...
Litigation
A $10 Million Defense Can't Spare City $30 Million Verdict
By David Houstonn
LOS ANGELES - Almost four years after firing an investigator who questioned whether hired-gun lawyers from a politically conne...
LOS ANGELES - After a depressed and ailing Compton auto mechanic was found hanging by a bed sheet in Los Angeles County Jail, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ten years ago, half a dozen women working for Ralphs supermarkets hired the same San Francisco lawyer who had ...
With an impeccably tied, color-coordinated turban and a good suit, Navneet Singh Chugh visibly signals that he is proudly and ...