Appellate Practice
'It's Always Been That Way' Isn't Always the Best Way
By Philip Carrizosa
Column - By Philip Carrizosa - In 1803, the British created a civil service position calling for a man to stand on the Cliffs ...
SAN JOSE - In an early test of the legality of keyword advertising by search engine companies, a federal judge in Alexandria,...
Litigation
District Can't Charge Religious Group Fees
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction banning the Upland Unified School District from discriminatin...
FREMONT - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Donald Squires brings a worldly view to the bench. Born in San Francisco, the so...
LOS ANGELES - Karen Randall, general counsel and executive vice president at Universal Studios since 2000, will step down from...
SANTA ANA - The last member of the "Cherokee bandits" gang, which terrorized Orange County banks with a string of bank robberi...
EXTRA Feature - By Liz Valsamis - If you travel east of downtown Los Angeles along Cesar Chavez Avenue, you'll drive through a...
LOS ANGELES - In what lawyers are calling the first-ever appellate ruling forcing a building material to undergo environmental...
Litigation
4 Will Try to Unseat Board of Santa Clara Attorneys Union
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - In the wake of voters' defeat of a binding arbitration proposal backed by the leadership of the Santa Clara County...
LOS ANGELES - A Compton jury awarded $10 million to a man who suffered permanent physical and mental injuries during a Nov. 2,...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sudanese torture victim will get another chance at asylum, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has ru...
Government
'Insurmountable Lead' Causes City Attorney to Prepare to Go
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - City Attorney Casey Gwinn is preparing to hand the reins of office to Mike Aguirre, telling him and his runoff opp...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali has signaled that a proposed settlement between the defunct Brobeck, Phl...
Law Practice
Post-Secondary School Specialist Leaves Kaye Rose for Duane Morris
By Lorelei Laird
Keith Zakarin has a lot of history with San Diego's Kaye, Rose & Maltzman. Like the firm's name partners, Zakarin was an a...
SAN FRANCISCO - During a recent morning's work, Judge Peggy Hora sifted through a tall stack of mail, searched the Internet, ...
LOS ANGELES - William Cottrell may be a genius at physics, but he was a bumbler at covering his tracks in an arson conspiracy...
Personal Injury & Torts
Appeal Court Seeks Clarity In Prop. 64's Quagmire
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - With trial lawyers scrambling to file paperwork explaining how pending cases should or shouldn't be affected ...
Labor/Employment
Employers Can Give Top Holiday Parties Without Risking Lawsuits
By Columnist
Employment Column - By James J. McDonald Jr. - With the holidays just around the corner, many law firms and other organization...
Real Estate/Development
Legislature Keeps Busy With Controversial Land-Use Bills
By Columnist
Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Cecily T. Talbert and Todd A. Williams - Affordable housing, density bo...
Personal Injury & Torts
Tort Measure Protects Big Business From Legitimate Suits
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Sharon J. Arkin - On Nov. 2, California voters enacted Proposition 64 to add new restrictions on actions fil...
SAN FRANCISCO - Three San Francisco assistant U.S. attorneys - George Bevan Jr., Lewis Davis and Michael Li-Ming Wang - have ...
SACRAMENTO - Former Assembly Judiciary Committee Chairman Darrell Steinberg will join Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos and Ru...
LOS ANGELES - After helping build the Los Angeles office of Howrey Simon Arnold & White, veteran white-collar criminal def...
State Bar & Bar Associations
County Bar Association Lures New Director From Arizona
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - Change is coming to the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Stuart Forsyth, the former executive director of the...
SACRAMENTO - An appellate court Thursday rejected a petition on behalf of several injured workers who sought to block the sta...
Judges and Judiciary
Commission Finishes Misconduct Proceedings Against Judge
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Misconduct proceedings wrapped up Thursday against Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kevin A. Ross, who is accuse...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court agreed Thursday to an en banc rehearing of a racketeering claim against the Los Angeles...
LOS ANGELES - Defense attorneys for alleged double agent Katrina Leung have accused federal prosecutors of serious misconduct...
Litigation
Garamendi Sues Four Insurers For Paying Kickbacks to Broker
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi sued four leading insurance companies Thursday, alleging that they paid kick...