SAN FRANCISCO - With election season looming, chief justices from around the nation brainstormed Tuesday on how to protect jud...
SAN FRANCISCO - In emotion-filled testimony, witnesses told a special Senate committee Tuesday that a "green wall" representin...
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Estate of Davidson, 2003 DJDAR 12851 (Cal. A...
Forum Column - By Marc A. Levin and Winfield Myers - In unveiling his immigration-reform plan, President George W. Bush stated...
Judges and Judiciary
To Earn Discretion, Judges Must Stop Being Politicians
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Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - In a recent speech at the American Bar Association's annual meeting, Justice Anthony M. Ken...
SAN FRANCISCO - Fred Brown, who defended Cadence Design Systems Inc. in a $1 billion patent and trade-secrets trial last year ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider whether the federal law that bars deceptive credit practices caps...
LOS ANGELES - Private services have taken place for Ernest J. Zack, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge. Zack, who serv...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a racketeering claim arising from the Los Angeles Police...
LOS ANGELES - Hinshaw & Culbertson has hired three professional-liability partners from Los Angeles' Haight, Brown & B...
LOS ANGELES - A neighbors' tiff over a child's playhouse has landed in an appellate court, with justices finding Tuesday that ...
LOS ANGELES - A sweeping gag order issued at pop star Michael Jackson's court appearance Friday is unlikely to stem the rush o...
Judges and Judiciary
Recess Appointment Portends Acrimonious Wars Over Jurists
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - President Bush's decision to employ a rarely used technique to elevate a controversial Mississippi judge to a sea...
SANTA ANA - The American Bar Association discriminates against for-profit law schools, holding them to an unreachable standard...
Daniel Clivner sipped his champagne early this New Year's Eve. The Los Angeles lawyer was celebrating Time Inc.'s sale of Time...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Wireless Facilities Goes High Tech During Holidays
By Toni Vranjes
San Diego attorney Scott Stanton wrapped up a $49 million deal during the holiday season. Stanton put the finishing touches on...
Michael McCarthy joined Sherman Oaks litigation firm Nemecek & Cole on Jan. 1 as a partner in the firm's professional liab...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutrals Reveal Tips With Their Opening Statements
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Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Lee Jay Berman - Most mediations begin with the mediator's opening statement, muc...
Jonathan Kitchen and George Kalikman joined Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif as a package deal after practicing to...
Two companies that duked it out for 12 years over a patent found themselves in court again recently, this time sitting at the ...
An administrative law judge with the U.S. Department of Transportation has ruled that Miami-based Astar Air Cargo, formerly DH...
LOS ANGELES - It wasn't exactly Martha Stewart. But the culinary arts program offered to teen offenders doing time at Camp Scu...
Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith has joined the ranks of Los Angeles-based law firms to move into the booming Las Vegas l...
Neil Falconer was the seventh lawyer at Steinhart & Falconer when he joined the San Francisco firm as a young associate in...
MarkMonitor, a Boise, Idaho-based company that provides software to help companies protect their intellectual property, will d...
A long-running feud between a top Santa Cruz law enforcement official and one of his chief critics erupted recently into a fre...
As counsel to Headwaters Inc., San Francisco attorney Linda Williams helped the energy company obtain $175 million in bank fin...
Criminal
Jurists Tap Former Public Defender To Be Commissioner in San Diego
By Claude Walbert
Superior Court judges have elected a former Los Angeles County deputy public defender to be a commissioner. Pennie McLaughlin ...
A federal judge in Los Angeles last month dismissed a securities fraud class action brought against Woodland Hills-based Synco...
Column - Humor - By Pierce O'Donnell - Larry King is getting a last-minute touch of makeup as his producer whispers in his ear...