Judges and Judiciary
After 41 Months of Suspense, Fletcher Gets 9th Circuit Post
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - A 41-month wait ended Thursday for Boalt Hall professor William Fletcher, when the Senate voted 57-41 to confirm...
Criminal
Charges of Dirty Tricks Fly in Investigation of Landfill Project
By Mathew Heller
SAN BERNARDINO - The allegations seem like something out of an industrial espionage thriller, complete with stolen computer d...
Appellate Practice
Rehearing Set After Defendant Serves 16 Years
By Anna Marie Stolley
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a defense lawyer's preparation for a murder trial - a cursory revie...
Litigation
Workers' Wage Claims May Be Taken to Court
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for thousands of union workers at the Albertson's grocery chain, a federal appeals court ruled T...
Juvenile
Gym, Used as Juvenile Dorm, Closed
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Housing facilities for juvenile detainees in Riverside County - already severely overburdened - were dealt a furt...
Litigation
Judge Gives Go-Ahead to Pregnancy-Related Suit
By Denise Levin
A judge on Friday refused to throw out the bulk of a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former partner of the entertainment la...
Intellectual Property
Top Level Managers Leaving Patent Office
By James Evans
SAN JOSE - The departures of high-level officials at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reflect continuing instability at t...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Local Bar Leaders Table Plans for a Voluntary Bar
By Don De Benedictis
MONTEREY - The group of local bar leaders who have struggled for months to design a statewide voluntary bar association to fi...
Judges and Judiciary
Ito Removed From Suspended Lawyer's Murder Trial
By Michael Harris
Prosecutors have filed an affidavit of prejudice against Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lance Ito, prompting his unconteste...
Securities
Initial Public Off-Season
By Leslie Gordon
Late last month, eBay, a San Jose-based Internet auction company, went public. Its shares were priced at $18, but at one poin...
Judges and Judiciary
O.C. Elects PJ, Assistant for Unified Court
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA - The votes are in, and Orange County Superior Court's presiding and assistant presiding judges have been selected....
Criminal
Partners in Protection
By Tori Richards
WESTMINSTER - Deputy District Attorney Sonia Balleste was concerned. She arrived at work Tuesday morning and was going throug...
Judges and Judiciary
A Beltway Deal May Break Up Judicial Logjam
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - A deal worked out last week between the White House and the Senate Republican leadership may lead to a rash of j...
Intellectual Property
Justices to Consider Rights to Sue Employers Despite Arbitration Pacts
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Labor and business will be going to the mat before the Supreme Court this week on whether workers covered by col...
Technology & Science
Wilson Sonsini Wins Its Own Invention Patent
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati of Palo Alto, which specializes in offering legal assistance to Silicon Valle...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Poll: Lawyers Want the Right to Elect Board
By Don J. De Benedictis
California lawyers overwhelmingly believe they should keep the right to elect most of the members of the State Bar Board of G...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Riverside President Sees Local Bar Responding to New Duties
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - As newly installed president of the Riverside County Bar Association, Diane Catran Roth has clearly defined goals...
Education
Online Law School Features No Classrooms
By Michael Ueda
^^The Paper Chase / Michael Ueda^^ Scheduled to open later this month, Concord University School of Law, based in the Westwood...
Litigation
Claims of 'Death' Come as Shock to Businessman
By Martin Bergn
Last year, Los Angeles resident Adrian G. Ready was shocked to find that he was dead. And in the eyes of the Social Security ...
Judges and Judiciary
DA Doubted on One-Day Service
By Michael Harris
Los Angeles County court officials said Thursday that despite District Attorney Gil Garcetti's call for the implementation of...
Litigation
Plaintiff, First Attacked by Shark, Meets Match in Defense Lawyer
By Anna Marie Stolley
Neither guppy nor goldfish, it was, in fact, a thrashing lemon shark that left Steven Rosenbloom hospitalized for three days....
Litigation
Dad, In Child-Support Jam, Says His Lawyer's to Blame
By Cheryl Romo
In a world where people often look for others to blame for their troubles, the story of a father of two who is suing his form...
Government
Hahn, Lungren Huff, Puff Over Tobacco Claim
By Lauren Blau
Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn and Attorney General Dan Lungren took a fight public Thursday over Hahn's lawsuit aga...
Government
Wilson Vetoes Bill to Expand Rights at Work
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Siding with the business community, Gov. Pete Wilson has vetoed a sweeping civil rights bill that would have expa...
Government
How Much Was the 'A' Sign in the Window?
By Lauren Blau
Restaurants in Los Angeles County have been on the front burner recently because of the controversy over cleanliness in the ki...
Government
San Diego Ex-Prosecutor Appeals Termination
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO - Former deputy district attorney James Fitzpatrick, whose termination for misconduct from the district attorney's ...
Judges and Judiciary
Fast-Track Civil Trial System Called a Success
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA --- A new fast-track civil trial system has been a great success in getting cases to trial faster, according to a s...
Technology & Science
Financial Matchmaking
By Leslie Gordon
Garage.com is a very '90's, very Silicon Valley version of "The Dating Game." The Web site, brainchild of Venture Law Group f...
Government
Advise and Consent
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Taking a slap at the Clinton administration and a possible preemptive strike at future White Houses, the Senate ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Clients Skunked, But Not by Him, Girardi Claims
By Denise Levin
Plaintiffs' attorney Thomas V. Girardi, lauded by colleagues and feared by adversaries for his knack of winning multimillion-...