San Diego County Superior Court Judge Daniel B. Goldstein has reinvented himself three times: paramedic, prosecutor and now, j...
Entertainment & Sports
Lawsuit Seeks Royalties From Songs on Cellphones
By Jean Luc Renault
Called a friend's phone lately and heard "Brown Sugar" instead of a ringing sound while waiting for an answer? That could be a...
Former Homestore chief executive Stuart Wolff agreed Thursday to plead guilty to securities fraud in connection with a revenue...
San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman announced Thursday it dropped first-year associate salaries to $145,000 fr...
Raymond F. Zvetina traded the hectic pace of an independent calendar judge for the more reflective life as a JAMS neutral. ...
Federal prosecutors rolled out a series of motions late Thursday disclosing plans to appeal all but one of the dismissals of c...
Those with an eye on the budget said they expect Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal today to include cuts to social safety-...
The Obama administration plans to renominate U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward M. Chen to be a district court judge in San Francisc...
The strong performance of initial public offerings in 2009 is expected to encourage more private companies to take the plunge ...
The California Supreme Court seemed inclined to help a 67-year-old janitor Thursday whose claim of age discrimination was wron...
U.S. Supreme Court
Potential Candidate for State AG Race May Face Supreme Court Scrutiny
By Lawrence Hurleyn
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley will likely find out next week whether the U.S. Supreme Court will hear his ...
Michael Weinsten and Miles Feldman of Liner Grode examine California's recent attempt to fight the 'stalkerazzi' and curb aggr...
Attorney Howard Hoffenberg discusses a recent federal decision enabling members of the public to seek large monetary awards fo...
Professor Laurie Levenson and Judge Alex Ricciardulli join forces to provide the only resource that compares CALCRIM to CALJIC...
The current law school recruiting model is broken and needs fixing, according to a report released Thursday by the National As...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Advocates: Cuts Stripped Three Million People Of Health Care
By Evan George
Nearly 3 million low-income adults in California lost key medical benefits, including optometry and psychological services, wh...
The last three years have brought whirlwind change for Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal. The tremors have been felt firmwide,...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to take back, or soften, an unusually gruff order it made in December accus...
Roman Polanski's lawyers will get a hearing on whether the director should be sentenced in absentia for sex crimes under a sta...
Total venture investment in clean technology was down and overall deal making was steeply up in 2009, according to figures rel...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Judge Must Reconsider Class Action
By John Roemer
U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez of Los Angeles was wrong to deny class certification to labor union workers seeking to...
The California Supreme Court didn't seem eager Wednesday to stand in the way of post-9/11 security by extending broad free spe...
A former human resources official at Brocade Communications Systems Inc. will be the first Silicon Valley executive to serve a...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Lawyer Admits Role As Go-Between
By Evelyn Larrubian
A reformed gang member-turned-criminal defense attorney, whom prosecutors accused of working as a middleman for a clique of a ...
James Wong, U.S. Counsel for Chinney Capital, lays out the steps for and benefits of setting up regional headquarters in China...
Julie Waterstone of Southwestern Law School explains why the 'Civil Gideon' statute should be extended to education and school...
Letter to the Editor
Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys Carry Bias Into Judicial Office
By Sharon Liangn
Jennifer Keller of Keller Rackauckas says former prosecutors bring just as much bias into judicial office as ex-public defende...
Federal regulators in California encountered a virtual hurricane of investment fraud schemes in 2009. They ripped more than $4...
Family law attorneys Mitchell Jacobs and Jami Fosgate examine In re Marriage of Kacik and the issue of spousal and chil...