Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Just when you thought it might be slowing down. Just when you thought that the near-univ...
LOS ANGELES - On stage, Gerald M. Murphy goes by "Butch," a guitar-playing, wisecracking character who performs with the band...
LOS ANGELES - Intellectual property litigator James E. Doroshow has joined Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County lawyer is in jail after a judge called him an extortionist, held him in contempt of court and or...
Judges and Judiciary
After Decade, Court Allows Judge to Practice Law Again
By Savannah Blackwell
SAN FRANCISCO - Ten years after booting a judge from the bench and yanking her bar card for dishonest and immoral behavior, th...
Firm Watch
Lawyer Goes Down the Block to Develop Her Financial Practice
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
LOS ANGELES - "I went not even a block," Sandra Lee Montgomery said of her move to Bingham McCutchen's Los Angeles offices fro...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Admonishes Judge Who Silenced and Detained Lawyer
By Bobbi Murrayn
LOS ANGELES - The state Commission on Judicial Performance has publicly admonished a Los Angeles Superior Court judge for, amo...
LOS ANGELES - Commissioner Brad M. Fox's first stop each morning is the Torrance Annex Court located behind the Southwest Dist...
Appellate Practice
Hastings Professor Goes to McDermott Appellate Practice
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutor, professor, and now - big-firm litigator. Rory K. Little had exactly what McDermott Will &a...
Judges and Judiciary
From His Father's Footstool To the State Appellate Bench
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - There appears to be a judicial gene in the family of William R. McGuiness. His father, William J. McGuiness, b...
LOS ANGELES - Recent salary increases have left law-firm associates feeling fat and happy. But don't expect corporate general ...
LOS ANGELES - Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker announced that Ken Krug will join the firm as a partner in the firm's real...
SAN FRANCISCO - After nearly 10 years of presiding over murders and other high-stakes cases, Laurel Brady may soon face the bi...
WILLOWS - In 1994, when Glenn County Fair officials needed to replace the official steer "weigh master" following a controvers...
Forum Column - By Dana Cephas - If the California Legislature drafted a statute authorizing Superior Court judges to rewrite t...
Focus Column - By John J. Manier - Under a recent 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, an employer may violate the Amer...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Paul P. Burdick to a seat on the Santa Cruz County Superior Court on Thur...
Environmental
Panel Upholds State's Plans to Protect Delta's Water Quality
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeals court Thursday upheld major elements of the state's plans for protecting water quality in the ...
LOS ANGELES - A San Jose jury has awarded $700,000 to the family of a child with Asperger's syndrome who claimed she was abuse...
SAN FRANCISCO - A day after Dewey Ballantine came within one partner of losing its Silicon Valley office, the New York firm wa...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral Is Entertainment Law's 'Elder Statesman'
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - Lou Meisinger has spent years around Mickey Mouse and dozens of characters beloved by children. But Meisinger's ...
LOS ANGELES - As the Los Angeles trial of a former Roman Catholic priest neared the end Thursday, both sides agreed on one th...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Search for the Right Neutral Moves to the Web
By Kenneth Davis
LOS ANGELES - Litigators looking for the right neutral can now use the Internet to find a mediator or arbitrator. The Californ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously has agreed to decide whether relatives of convicted criminals can be ...
LOS ANGELES - When Southern California businessman Bill Simon ran for governor in 2002, incumbent Gray Davis blasted him in TV...
SANTA ANA - Jurors are supposed to tell one another whether they think a witness lied or told the truth. But they virtually ne...
SAN DIEGO - Rather than helping women, the nation's tough laws against sexual harassment segregate females and make it harder ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco man must stand trial for the first-degree gunshot murders of two accomplices during an allege...
Entertainment & Sports
Jury Says Angels Can Keep L.A. in Team Name
By Don De Benedictis
SANTA ANA - An Orange County jury voted late Thursday to let the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim retain their unusual name, soun...
Labor/Employment
'Patten' Warns Employers About Reach of Whistle-Blower Retaliation
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Employment Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - In a case of apparent first impression, the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Pat...