When Pillsbury Winthrop attorneys Nate Cartmell and Brad Kohn helped billionaire Phil Anschutz acquire the San Francisco Exami...
Column - Malicious Prosecution - By Susan Page White - When people are sued, they typically are relieved if their insurer pote...
Yeda Research and Development Company Ltd. won a summary judgment in federal court recently in a patent infringement case file...
Bank of America agreed this month to a $33 million settlement for a class action brought by 2,600 beneficiaries of trust accou...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Jeffrey Brill - The patent statute includes an often misunderstood requirement that a patent sp...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The war against world hunger is facing a major battle in this country, as the Bush adminis...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Julia Lapis Blakeslee - Most people assume that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act pr...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marvin Lager has told lawyers in the massive Southern California clergy sexual ...
LOS ANGELES - Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund took up an invitation from the state Supreme Court Friday and filed a di...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge ruled Friday that Justin Helzer, the younger of two brothers charged in a series of gruesome Bay Area ...
Appellate Practice
Panel Lifts Restraining Order Against Superior Court Jurist
By Jory Farr
LOS ANGELES - A restraining order issued against a Los Angeles Superior Court judge who allegedly threatened to kill a man he ...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Eron Ben-Yehuda - What surgery is to the patient, litigation is to the client. So says profes...
Judges and Judiciary
Former Orange County Judge Faces Felony Drunken-Driving Charges
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - A former presiding judge of Orange County, who severely injured a motorcyclist during a collision last December, n...
Judges and Judiciary
Kids Come First for L.A. Judge Who Runs a Family Law Court
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marjorie Steinberg admits she's guilty of one bias. In her family law courtroom...
SAN DIEGO - A jury has awarded the San Diego Unified Port District $21.3 million in back rent and demolition costs that a form...
Forum Column - By Michael L. Mallow and Matthew G. Ball - California courts might finally be bringing fairness to California's...
LOS ANGELES - In August, Shearman & Sterling, one of the most prominent law firms in the United States, took what many leg...
SAN FRANCISCO - In an unusual move, attorneys for two of three men charged with assault in the infamous police Fajitagate case...
Forum Column - By Michael Rushford - Last weekend California marked the 10-year anniversary of its adoption of the toughest ha...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediators Could Face Suits Over Confidentiality Issues
By Columnist
Focus Column - Legal Ethics - By Jeff Kichaven - As mediation becomes a more significant commercial enterprise, more litigatio...
Forum Column - By Joe Domanick - One May morning in 1998 I was riding shotgun with Mike Reynolds as he tooled through downtown...
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - There is a fine line between appropriate job search follow-up and pestering. Prop...
Litigation
Collection-Law Expert Was Active Republican
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Services have taken place for LeMoyne "Lee" S. Badger, a longtime general practitioner who at one point was a play...
LOS ANGELES - Civil litigator Samuel W. Gordon died March 3 after a brief illness. He was 57. Gordon was known for his brillia...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court ruled Thursday that a man can pursue his lawsuit alleging Mercury Insurance Co. charged ...
LOS ANGELES - The executive director of the Beverly Hills Bar Association has stepped down, citing undue stress stemming from ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Glenn Taylor Helzer, one of two brothers accused in a series of gruesome Bay Area murders, entered a surprise ...
SAN FRANCISCO - State Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism about prosecuting a sex offender twice - once for failing to...
LOS ANGELES - Marcia Wilbur, a former dean of Western State University College of Law, died Tuesday in Orange after a brief ba...
Appellate Practice
Race Equated With Gender in Assessing Bias at Work
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Racial hostility at work must be assessed in a courtroom from the point of view of a "reasonable person" belon...