With its fluorescent lighting and bare cement floors, Commissioner Anthony B. Drewry's courtroom at the Sylmar Juvenile Courth...
Laurence Goldberg joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as a partner in the firm's San Francisco office.
DISBARMENTS - Richard Anthony Sbeglia, 53, New York (May 10) - Sbeglia was summarily disbarred after his criminal conviction i...
NAPA - After practicing law for nearly a quarter-century in Napa County, Rodney G. Stone was ready for a different perspective...
Administrative/Regulatory
Crumbling Courthouses Fall Through the Budgetary Cracks
By Bobbi Murrayn
LOS ANGELES - Wags around the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles are quick to point out advantages of the buildin...
Forum Column - By Peter R. Jarvis, David J. Elkanich, Rene C. Holmes, and Allison D. Rhodes - Disciplinary Rule 7 of the 1969 ...
Focus Column - By Kirk Pasich - In recent years, a substantial number of lawsuits have been filed against the directors and of...
Labor/Employment
New York Court Applies Noncompete Clause to California Employee
By Amy Kalinn
Employment Column - By Anthony J. Oncidi and Beverly R. Frank - In a breathtaking new ruling, a federal court in New York enjo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Litigants in an apparently unprecedented water pollution case have charted an aggressive timetable for testing...
Judges and Judiciary
Child Porn Scandal Leads Agency to Ban Ex-Judge
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The state Commission on Judicial Performance on Thursday publicly censured former Orange County Superior Court Jud...
SACRAMENTO - Irving Perluss still goes to the office every day. That might be considered unremarkable except for the fact that...
Litigation
Judge Tentatively Dismisses Part of Suit Against Tip Sharing
By Jim Adamekn
SAN DIEGO - A class action challenging Starbucks' practice of allowing supervisors to share employees' tips won't go to trial ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Nearly All Partners Approve Merger of Reed and Richards
By Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly 100 percent of the partners at Reed Smith and London-based Richards Butler have approved a union betwee...
SAN FRANCISCO - After a murder witness under her protection was gunned down by masked men last month, San Francisco District A...
SAN FRANCISCO - While the overall cost of being a public company decreased in 2005, audit fees and other compliance expenses a...
WASHINGTON - In a significant victory for police and prosecutors, a deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that judg...
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego judge this week signed off on $161 million in legal fees to plaintiffs' lawyers who won the record $3....
WASHINGTON - When landlords and tenants fall out, they go to a judge. But what happens when the disgruntled tenant is the judi...
Forum Column - By Kirsten Schlenger - While the country focuses attention and anxiety on Congress' immigration reform bills, P...
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo sued a large real estate management company Wednesday for allegedly driving low-i...
LOS ANGELES - Glenn D. Gritzner is not a lawyer or a lobbyist. Nonetheless, he is managing director of a new public law and p...
Judge Robert A. O'Farrell appreciates his days on the Monterey County Superior Court bench because virtually everything out o...
LOS ANGELES - Former FBI agent Denise Woo's guilty plea last week to a single count of disclosing confidential information to ...
Corporate
Merck, Plaintiffs Square Off Over Cameras in the Vioxx Courtroom
By Bobbi Murrayn
LOS ANGELES - Merck & Co. has said that it strives for "transparency" when it comes to informing the public about the pain...
Private engineers and architects won a victory Wednesday when a state appellate court ruled that outsourcing of government con...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Top Court to Review Fertility Doctors' Refusal to Treat Woman
By Itir Yakarn
The state Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether doctors may, based on their own religious beliefs, refuse to treat ...
LOS ANGELES - The 400-attorney San Francisco firm Thelen Reid & Priest is in talks to merge with New York's Brown Raysman ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former local prosecutor who accepted drugs from defendants was sentenced Wednesday to six months in federal ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The exodus of high-level Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman partners continues as the chairman of the firm's inte...
Focus Column - By Laura W. Brill, Alana B. Hoffman, Ted M. Sichelman, Jonathan P. Steinsapir - Federal circuit courts in April...