LOS ANGELES - They're not kids you'd necessarily welcome into your home. Gino, a gangly 14-year-old with gel-gooped spiky hair...
Judges and Judiciary
With Treatment, Teen Turns Into Girl She's Meant to Be
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Sofya was 7 the first time she attempted suicide, by eating oleander leaves. She doesn't remember much, except g...
Forum Column - By Andra Barmash Greene and David Djavaherian - A recent case from the U.S. District Court for the Northern Dis...
Focus Column - Construction Law - By Bernard S. Kamine - California public agencies must allow public-works contractors to pro...
SAN FRANCISCO - Placer County Superior Court Judge Joseph W. O'Flaherty, who was overturned in two cases for inviting potentia...
LOS ANGELES - In the nine months since her appointment, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa M. Chung has become known as the...
Appellate Practice
Mailing Fake Anthrax Is Crime Of Violence, 9th Circuit Rules
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A Monterey Park man who mailed letters containing a white powder that he claimed was the deadly anthrax bacteria...
Administrative/Regulatory
Charges of Bungled Autopsies to Remain Cold
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A former county medical examiner in San Diego won a long-running battle Monday with the Medical Board of Calif...
SACRAMENTO - As chief lobbyist for the California District Attorneys Association, Lawrence Brown tried for years to get toughe...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Monday upheld the right of a Utah artist to use Mattel's copyright-protected Barbie in...
At the Anti-Defamation League Pacific Southwest Region's celebration of the worldwide organization's 90th anniversary on Dec. ...
In his quest to photograph the entire California coast, environmentalist Ken Adelman will not have to leave out the stretch th...
An Irvine-based high-tech company claims that nearly everyone in the compact-disc burner industry is infringing on its patent....
Column - Law Practice - By Sandford A. Lechtick - If someone had suggested to me two or three years ago that Brobeck, Phleger ...
Column - Law Practice - By Dennis Mccue - A new year is upon us, and it is traditional to resolve to reform bad habits. Yet, i...
Bankruptcy
Judicial Council Taps Bankruptcy Judge for Circuit's Appellate Panel
By John Ryan
The judicial council of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has appointed Erithe A. Smith to its bankruptcy appellate panel, the...
The Judicial Council, the policymaking body of the state courts, said this month it will honor 10 innovative court programs an...
Column - Trial Strategy - By John Cleaves - Trial attorneys, from large defense firms to small plaintiffs' boutiques, are incr...
Litigation
Defending Depositions Will Require Evasion of Pitfalls
By Contributing Writer
Column - Trial Strategy - By Steven S. Kaufhold - Defending an important deposition can give even the most seasoned litigator ...
Irvine's Rus, Miliband & Smith showed a hardened heart and engaged in "pure overkill" by withdrawing from an insurance bad...
Column - Law Firm Management - By Gerald Knapton And Patti Bentley - E-invoicing by third-party auditing/data processing compa...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Mark L. Eisenhut - In the world of class actions, one new trend is the increase in actions ...
Labor/Employment
Certain Deductions Are Disallowed In Calculation of Incentive Bonuses
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Helene J. Wasserman - Many employers in the retail and hospitality industries provide incen...
Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - One of the low points on the California legal scene in 2003 was the blow dealt the Boy Scou...
SACRAMENTO - Superior Court Judge Jerilyn Borack loves to sail, but being landlocked in the heart of California's food basket ...
LOS ANGELES - Funeral services are scheduled for today for Arne Lindgren, a partner at Latham & Watkins specializing in ta...
LOS ANGELES - For Ted McAniff, it all comes back to the voices: the soaring swell of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, its membe...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Loves Freedom That Fast-Track System Affords
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - Judge Malcolm H. Mackey loves being on the fast track. Having done "just about everything in the court system," ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Other federal circuit courts have their five minutes of fame, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is nev...
SAN FRANCISCO - James Rogan, who has earned praise and criticism since he took the post of director of the U.S. Patent and Tra...