By Eron Ben-Yehuda A Fresno attorney accuses local education officials of "whitewashing" a hazing incident in which female hi...
By Erik Cummins Matthew Fisher is no economist, he says, but he has seen a revival of venture capital and emerging company wo...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Working Things Out Has Always Motivated Neutral
By Eron Yehuda
By Eron Ben-Yehuda As a high-school student in Basking Ridge, N.J., Peter J. Searle heard the frustrations of his fellow clas...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Manuel Real took just a few seconds Friday to dismiss the latest federal action from Stephen...
By Stefanie Knapp A single study performed by Yale doctors prompted pharmaceutical companies to pull cold and allergy medicin...
By Toni Vranjes When Maguire Properties Inc. went public in June, it was delving into uncharted territory. The company was th...
By Toni Vranjes Three months after his client signed a letter of intent to be acquired by a health care company, Fred Koenen ...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Bar Association has rated eight judicial candidates, including a sitting judge who has b...
By Amy K. Spees A dispute between a medical group and a hospital has erupted into three lawsuits that have one party on the h...
By Draeger Martinez SunCal Cos., an Irvine-based developer of master planned communities, recently named veteran real estate ...
Column Law Firm Marketing By Kate Fitzgerald The first quarter of every new year is the time when corporations look for new c...
By Eron Ben-Yehuda The city of Fresno recently settled a defamation claim for $60,000 after the chair of its Human Relations ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Civil Rights Group Honors Pro Bono Efforts
By Pamela Mac Lean
By Pamela A. MacLean The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the Bay Area recently honored several attorneys for their eff...
By Liz Valsamis After serving as general counsel of MediaLive International Holdings for the last three years, Jeryl A. Bower...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Ethics Concerns Prompt Closure of Internet Forum
By Eron Yehuda
By Eron Ben-Yehuda The Los Angeles County Bar Association recently shut down its Internet discussion forum for litigators aft...
By Stefanie Knapp Joining the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles at its annual installation dinner dance Jan. 31, ...
Intellectual Property
Provisional Patents Provide Strategy to Protect Inventions
By Columnist
Focus Column Intellectual Property By John T. McNelis "We have an invention but don't want to spend a lot of money protecting...
Forum Column By Vicky Barker and Bethany Leal January marked the 31st anniversary of Roe v. Wade. California - always ahead of...
Forum Column By John Norton Moore, Malvina Halberstam and Tony Onorato For nearly a decade, Congress and the executive branch...
SAN FRANCISCO - John Tennison, who spent 13 years in state prison for murder before he was exonerated in October, has filed a...
LOS ANGELES - A salesman for a company that sprays on truck bed liners has won a jury verdict of $11.3 million for a 2001 acc...
Judges and Judiciary
Detective Says He Didn't Follow Traffic Tickets' Trail
By Craiq Anderson
Reporter's Notebook By Craig Anderson SAN JOSE - Randy Bishop, the former Los Gatos police detective charged as a co-conspira...
Column By Garry Abrams Last week was an exceptionally busy news week, even for California, the state that just can't say no t...
ALAMEDA - Superior Court Commissioner Tom Rasch once invited litigants to his house in Alameda. The occasion was not social. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Novice Small-Claims Judge Proves It's Not Like 'Judge Judy'
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The burley man stood before Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Stuart M. Rice one day recently, toting a p...
SAN FRANCISCO - A scaled-back version of a settlement state Attorney General Bill Lockyer once blasted as collusive and a thr...
^^CHANGE IN BIO BOX^^ ^^Labor Law^^ Politicians chase labor -union endorsements, while union leaders seek greater clout in the...
Intellectual Property
'Fraser' Relies on Privacy Act to Uphold Search of Work E-Mails
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Andrew Klungness and Jessica J. Slusser - The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rece...
Forum Column - By Melanie E. Lomax - Some may view a third trial of former Inglewood Police Officer Jeremy Morse as an exercis...
Juvenile
People Must Strive to See Themselves In Kinship With Those Living on Margins
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Father Greg Boyle - Mother Teresa said, lamenting the state of things in the world some years ago, "Our prob...