Administrative/Regulatory
Lawyers Pay Court Costs In Disclosure Controversy
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Two criminal defense lawyers prosecuted by the Yolo County District Attorney's office for disclosing witness inf...
SAN JOSE - Two corporate gadflies who helped define the limits of free speech on the Internet go before the California Suprem...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court held Monday that public court records are fair game for television true-crime pro...
LOS ANGELES - With sincere apologies to Shakespeare, Antony I. Stuart often feels like all the courtroom's a stage and all the...
INDUSTRIAL TUSTIN - Bixby Land Co. purchased a 122,801-square-foot industrial building located at 1201 Bell Ave. from Little ...
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - The Associated Press reported the good news Nov. 29 that violent school crime decreased ...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - Psychologists warn us that the holidays present an emotional red alert for many peopl...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Lauri Kritt Martin - It is a fact of our society that we have become mor...
Criminal
This Being L.A., Nobody Saw Nothin' in Blake-Case Computer Theft
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The brilliant fictional British detective Sherlock Holmes should be called in to investigate the th...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Board Won't Raise Ethic Exam's Passing Grade
By Don De Benedictis
The State Bar Board of Governors rejected a proposal Saturday to raise the passing grade for the ethics exam all want-to-be-la...
Environmental
Airport Mitigation Plan Costing $500 Million Passes First Hurdle
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - The city's pledge to spend $500 million to mitigate the impact of LAX expansion on neighboring communities pass...
Labor/Employment
San Diego Officer's Sex Video Isn't Protected, Justices Rule
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Issuing a sharp rebuke to the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court on Monday ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court obviously isn't afraid of teaching young people that capital punishment in Calif...
Administrative/Regulatory
9th Circuit Voices Doubts On Consumer Privacy Law
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A significant portion of California's landmark consumer privacy law appears doomed, judging by arguments Mond...
Seattle's oldest and largest law firm, Preston Gates & Ellis, is expanding its Asian presence by merging its Taipei offic...
SACRAMENTO - Newly elected Assemblyman Dave Jones, D-Sacramento, was appointed Monday as chairman of the Assembly Judiciary C...
LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake's long-awaited murder trial was delayed yet again Monday because his attorney's computer containing...
SAN DIEGO - Saying municipal funds are running short, newly sworn-in San Diego City Attorney Mike Aguirre revealed Monday that...
SAN FRANCISCO - The jury foreman failed to disclose his past as a stabbing victim and a criminal defendant, but the Californi...
SACRAMENTO - The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California said Monday it will file a lawsuit challenging Proposi...
LOS ANGELES - The Automobile Club of Southern California agreed Monday to settle a class action brought by its employees for ...
LOS ANGELES - A complicated dispute between the Tribune Co. and the Internal Revenue Service made its way to trial Monday, wit...
LOS ANGELES - Civil liberties lawyers today will argue the curious case of an Orange County man who has been held by immigrati...
LOS ANGELES - The Catholic Diocese of Orange agreed to pay $110 million to 87 victims of clergy sexual abuse, but some lawyers...
The teams facing off as finalists in the third annual National Civil Trial Competition stood in sharp contrast: an aggressive ...
INDUSTRIAL BALDWIN PARK - Apec Corp. purchased a 71,553 square-foot industrial building located at 5020-5050 Rivergrade Road f...
SAN FRANCISCO - The two camps vying to purchase the rights to sue Clifford Chance from Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's bank...
Partners at the Los Angeles office of Morrison & Foerster have chosen intellectual property litigator A. Max Olson as thei...
Entertainment & Sports
Films by Jove Wins Round in Fight to Control Movies
By Draeger Martinez
Films by Jove, a Los Angeles-based movie production company, recently won the latest battle in its efforts to maintain control...
Intellectual Property
Morgan Lewis Adds On to Its Silicon Valley Fortress
By Lorelei Laird
Only two years after Morgan, Lewis & Bockius arrived in Silicon Valley with a bang and 150 Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison...