Litigation
Incorporating Tips for Smooth Trials Will Pay Big Dividends
By Contributing Writer
Column - Adviser - By Kirk Pasich - The following tips should make trials go more smoothly: • Remember that motions in limine ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $425,000 to a child, Ronald C., who was molested by his foster father. The panel,...
LOS ANGELES - On his 90th birthday in March, Aaron Ruben, a longtime children's advocate, asked for just one thing: another ab...
SAN FRANCISCO - The ranks of lawyers are growing. More money is spent on legal services. More legal publications are published...
Firm Watch
Weston Attorney Leaves to Start Reed Smith Labor Group in L.A.
By Liz Valsamis
Pittsburgh-based Reed Smith has tapped John Zaimes to establish the firm's labor and employment practice group in Los Angeles....
Marjorie Fochtman says her clients wanted her to provide a broader range of services than she could at Littler Mendelson, an e...
The city of Santa Monica initially praised a multimillion dollar settlement reached with oil companies to clean up the contami...
Hollywood's famous and powerful piled into the Beverly Hills Hotel last month to mix, mingle and watch Alschuler Grossman Stei...
Column - Law Practice Management - By Arnold Kelser - Since the percentage of rainmakers is low in most medium and large law f...
Customers pushing a shopping cart through the poultry section of Whole Foods or Trader Joe's might notice something missing if...
From Day One, John Gartman has been a success at firm recruitment. Fish & Richardson tapped the intellectual property liti...
When veteran employment attorney Elizabeth Salveson left Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin earlier this year...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jury selection is set to begin today in what a Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer said is the first civ...
Intellectual Property
'Rocky' Creator Fights Two Courtroom Battles at Once
By Draeger Martinez
In the boxing ring, Rocky Balboa faced sleek champions such as the towering wrestler Thunderlips and Russian powerhouse Ivan D...
Two themes dominated the Constitutional Rights Foundation's recent spring dinner: the need for continued vigilance to maintain...
Public Interest
DA Is Right to Seek Prison, Not Death, for Alleged Cop Killer
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - Speaking about a city's homicide statistics in the abstract is perhaps macabre. Each new...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - The state Supreme Court recently issued a landmark opi...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
After 'Grafton,' Only Opting for Arbitration Will Avoid Jury Trial
By Columnist
Focus Column -Business Law - By Larry Watts - Many businesses distrust the jury system for complex business cases. They're par...
LOS ANGELES - "This is the most incredibly stressful experience of my life," Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John D. Harris s...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Tina Spee - After a turn-of-the-century decline, the nation's 30-year-old biotechnology indus...
WASHINGTON - In the hopes of overcoming a one-vote defeat on class action reform legislation last October, Sen. Majority Leade...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Despite losing nine attorneys in the past year, San Diego-based Gray Carey Ware & Freidenric...
SAN JOSE - The days of large salary increases have apparently come to an end for Santa Clara County's deputy county counsels. ...
Column By Garry Abrams - LOS ANGELES - He has been dead 10 years. But President Nixon has an eerie capacity to make news. Nixo...
Product Liability
9th Circuit Won't Reconsider Ruling Against Gunmaker
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Only the intervention of the U.S. Supreme Court can prevent handgun maker Glock Inc. from facing its day in fe...
Real Estate/Development
Both Developers, No-Growthers Can Find Middle Ground
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Call it Geronimo's revenge, or Chochise's, or Crazy Horse's. All of them strongly resist...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Anthony J. Oncidi and Jessica A. Herthel - In a far-reaching new opinion that could have im...
Labor/Employment
Discovery: It's Just as Hard to Be a Writer as It Is to Be a Lawyer
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Dylan Schaffer - I did not intend to be a lawyer. I went to law school because I wanted to study law. I neve...
Employment Column - By Lin Meyer - "Independent contractor." California's Employment Development Department essentially says t...
Appellate Practice
Appeals Court Frees Man Who Won't Cut His Hair
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Native American man whose sentence was prolonged because he refused to cut his hair walked out of prison Thursda...