Labor/Employment
Slave Labor Productions Liable for Bondage Star's Injury
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - How does a woman who models for nude photo shoots while tied up, gagged and suspended from the ceiling recove...
LOS ANGELES -The wife of a Saudi sheik has won a $216 million default judgment against the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its ki...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento prison guard who shot and seriously wounded an inmate to break up a prison yard fight in 1995 is...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jess Whitehill passed away Tuesday at Northridge Hospital Medical Cent...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - It's been years since Southern California has seen a real rainy season. So people forget...
SAN FRANCISCO - Despite admitting that they had failed to prove conspiracy to obstruct justice, prosecutors in the San Franci...
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans failed Thursday to end the Democrats' monthlong filibuster on the nomination of Miguel A. Estr...
Intellectual Property
Planning Can Safeguard Intellectual Property During Reduction in Force
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Louis R. Dienes - Current market conditions have forced many employers to re-evaluat...
OAKLAND - Less than a week after the city's police reform settlement plan was announced, Oakland police officers broke down t...
LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer warned consumers Wednesday to stay away from tempting offers of so-called "...
Large Firms
VLG's Hsu Moves to Townsend's Technology Licensing Group
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Townsend and Townsend and Crew has acquired a member of what one consultant calls a new breed of "evolved IP ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation Process Can Settle Even 'Hopeless' Cases
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Michael P. Carbone - One of the oft-cited reasons why litigants are relucta...
Forum Column - By Mark Tushnet - The Senate has become used to filibusters recently. They have evolved from the all-night talk...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld "Megan's laws" against challenges that they violate the rights of sex...
WASHINGTON - A divided U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday upheld three-strikes laws in California and 24 other states against charg...
Reporter's Notebook - By Donna Domino - Contra Costa County attorneys and court employees who endured bullying and humiliation...
SAN FRANCISCO - The first legal battle in the case against San Francisco Police Chief Earl Sanders and his fellow officers fo...
Constitutional Law
Circuit Grants Protection to Parolees From Some Searches
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Police must have a "reasonable suspicion" of criminal activity to justify the warrantless search of a parolee...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - Barring a coup by Iraqi generals, it is inevitable that the United States will lead a coa...
Column By Garry Abrams - For a long time, I thought it was a bad joke. But now I know it's true. Los Angeles really is the Cit...
SAN DIEGO - With the warm sun shining in February and a soft breeze rustling the palm trees, it's easy to see why Howard Wayn...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for USA Interactive's Ticketmaster hailed as a victory a recent decision by a Los Angeles federal judge...
Large Firms
Bench Officer Relieves Attorney As Counsel for Defunct Brobeck
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco defense attorney John Keker has gotten his wish and will no longer have to represent Brobeck, Phl...
SAN FRANCISCO - Saying there is "little to be lost, and potentially much to be gained," the federal judge presiding over the ...
SACRAMENTO - The head of the state Assembly Judiciary Committee won initial approval Tuesday for a bill that would allow work...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Lesbian Can Sue Doctors Who Wouldn't Inseminate
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court ruled Tuesday that a San Diego woman could sue doctors who refused to artificially inse...
SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal law experts suspect San Francisco prosecutors will have no easy task winning convictions against pol...
SAN FRANCISCO - Saying there is "little to be lost, and potentially much to be gained," the federal judge presiding over the ...
LOS ANGELES - Palo Alto-based Cooley Godward has lost its second partner to San Francisco's Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is moving its San Francisco headquarters out of the Financial District to ...