Congress responded to a preliminary injunction on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, which was ordered Au...
Even as the economy soured and unemployment soared in 2009, a two-decade trend of falling crime continued nationwide and in Ca...
Consumer Attorneys of California and United Policyholders are teaming up to help victims of the recent San Bruno gas line expl...
Riverside County officials are going to help Judge Paul Zellerbach's transition into his new job as district attorney because ...
Perspective
Familial DNA Search: Chains That Betray, Chains That Bind
By Carla Pinedan
Los Angeles' "Grim Sleeper" was the first case in America to use familial DNA testing to solve a crime. What does this process...
Casting aside the reputation of law firms as slow adopters of new technology, Latham & Watkins launched its own iPhone app...
Despite the fanfare surrounding the end of combat operations in Iraq, the United States will continue to pull strings there, b...
As expected, President Barack Obama has renominated two controversial picks for federal courts in California.
The bankruptcy reorganization of the largest private real estate land owner in downtown Los Angeles has turned ugly and put th...
Education
School Fees in Public Education: The Continuing Legacy of Hartzell v. Connell
By Carla Pinedan
The right to "free" K-12 public education is facing increasing difficulty in the current era of extreme fiscal crisis for all ...
Critics of Proposition 14 were dealt a huge blow Tuesday when a San Francisco County Superior Court judge denied their request...
Fifteen years after joining the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles as a second-year law student, Angela S. Haskins will ...
By Lisa Kestenbaum Daily Journal Staff Writer For San Francisco attorney Constantine "Gus" Panagotacos, baseball is j...
San Jose-based online auction site eBay Inc. successfully fought off a trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Tiffany Inc. wh...
Letter to the Editor
Experience, History and Intuition Justify Prop. 8
By Carla Pinedan
By John K. Haggerty
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on Tuesday that in-house counsel correspondence with clients doesn't qualify ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court: Federal Agents Can Take DNA of Pretrial Felony Defendants
By John Roemer
Federal agents can sample the DNA of pretrial felony defendants without a warrant, a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Good news for the five defendants charged with honest services fraud involving the city of San Diego's retirement system, the ...
California's economy relies on industries that earn revenue based on innovation and depends on the protection of intellectual ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Backs Off on Digital Searches
By John Roemer
Federal prosecutors groaned mightily when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year issued guidelines for computer searc...
1940-2010
Chi Tong Kuok, a resident of Macau, China, was sentenced to serve 96 months in prison based on his May conviction of conspirin...
The latest transactions by California attorneys.
Could it be that California lawmakers are scrambling to pass initiatives that both distract the public from the state's budget...
Palo Alto-based computer hardware giant Hewlett-Packard Co. continued its shopping spree outside of the hardware business Mond...
Perspective
Women Litigators: Are We (Still) Working in a Man's World?
By Carla Pinedan
A decade into the new millennium, how far have women litigators progressed in a profession dominated by men? By Penelope Parme...
A hearing Monday in San Jose federal court did little to resolve a heated battle between two plaintiffs firms that has serious...
Production company Celador International filed papers on Friday seeking $50 million in pre-judgment interest on a $269.4 milli...
Exposing the company's two billionaire co-founders to a round of fresh liability, a federal Los Angeles judge ruled Monday tha...
The Republic of Ecuador, which has seen its judicial system come under attack by Chevron Corp. in the last year, has taken a s...
