Forum Column - By Richard P. McKee - On public-school campuses today, intolerance toward dissenting views is becoming the norm...
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - The results in Gonzales promise to increase the...
SACRAMENTO - In the United States, at least 115 inmates have been freed through DNA testing, and mounting evidence from these...
SAN DIEGO - Prosecutors in the trial of David A. Westerfield, convicted of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Danielle van Da...
Entertainment & Sports
This Just In: Cops Look for Murder Suspects at Death Row Records
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - As a resident of Southern California, I sometimes have a hard time telling the difference between rea...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
CAOC Votes To Boycott Leading Firm Of Arbitrators
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The Consumer Attorneys of California, asserting that binding arbitration agreements are eroding jury trial ri...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - To understand why the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the most-reversed circuit, one...
CHATSWORTH - "In the event of a bomb threat, use the bomb threat checklist," the green-and-white sign in Commissioner Richard ...
SAN FRANCISCO - California utility regulators opened their defense Monday of a historic plan to reorganize the bankrupt Pacif...
SACRAMENTO - Southern California attorneys William Shernoff and Lisa Stern received the Consumer Attorneys of California's fi...
LOS ANGELES - A Malibu lawyer pleaded no contest Monday to two felony counts of grand theft for allegedly stealing $120,000 fr...
Appellate Practice
Court Thwarts Coalition's Efforts to Aid Detainees
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A coalition of clergy, lawyers and professors do not have enough connection to the 590 war prisoners held at Cam...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal rules committee has overwhelmingly recommended a controversial rule that would permit lawyers to ci...
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration won a major legal battle Monday when a special appellate court in its first published opi...
SAN FRANCISCO - State prison officials have been asked to halt court-ordered mental health screening on death row while defen...
SAN JOSE - Hundreds of Santa Clara County court employees walked off their jobs Monday, effectively shutting down the legal sy...
Administrative/Regulatory
9th Circuit Abandons Higher Standard for Some Pleadings
By Columnist
Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Galbraith overturned a longstanding principle requiring a "heigh...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it again will delve into the knotty issue of campaign finance, looking...
WASHINGTON - In 1995, Michael J. Hason, a New York doctor who now lives in Florida, applied for a license to practice medicine...
Intellectual Property
Howrey Simon Team Scores Big Against Ericsson
By Christina Landers
A team of attorneys led by Howard C. Bunsow, partner with the San Francisco office of Howrey, Simon, Arnold, & White, won ...
Litigation
Neutral Switches to JAMS From American Arbitration Association
By Stefanie Knapp
Jerry Spolter, formerly of the American Arbitration Association, joined the San Francisco office of alternative dispute provi...
Firm Watch
Arnold & Porter's London Office Hires Official of British Agency
By Staff Writer
Arnold & Porter has dipped into the United Kingdom Medicines Control Agency for its latest lateral hire in London. Dr. Li...
Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley has hired intellectual property partner James C. Potepan and two associates from Pasadena'...
Firm Watch
General Counsel Associates Adds Two partners, One From In-House
By Staff Writer
Mountain View's General Counsel Associates has promoted one attorney to partner and hired another from outside the firm. The ...
Firm Watch
Nordman Cormany Initiates New General Counsel Services Group
By Staff Writer
Oxnard's Nordman, Cormany, Hair & Compton has launched a general counsel services group to help small and medium-size bus...
A felon who turned his life around and became a top salesman at a Ford dealership in Huntington Beach has won $130,000 in a wh...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Merger Creates Access to Quick, Affordable Mediation
By Joan Osterwalder
Mediator Network, a subsidiary of Consolidated Legal Concepts Inc., and Mosten Mediation Centers Inc. merged Oct. 1 to create ...
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Los Angeles attorney Gregory G. Gorman is beat, even though he recently won a $2.1 million jury verdict aga...
It looks like former baseball star Steve Garvey is going to hit a home run in a false advertising case that the Federal Trade ...
Borland Software Corp. of Scotts Valley has agreed to buy the privately held software company TogetherSoft Corp. for $185 mill...