While the legal industry was rattled as the economy drifted into recession and then a shock, intellectual property attorneys f...
Criminal
Lawsuit Noir: Couple Seek $60 Million After Agents Storm Desert Home
By Jason W. Armstrong
Federal agents raided Julia and B.J. Davis' hope in August 2005. The couple have filed a lawsuit accusing the government of re...
Litigation
Judge Agrees to Extend Bratz's Shelf Life a Little Longer
By Jason W. Armstrong
Bratz and Barbie will share toy aisle space a while longer. ...
A. David Kagon, the lawyer who defeated the first so-called "palimony" suit, filed against actor Lee Marvin in 1976, has died....
If companies are capable of reducing personnel without making layoffs, they can look to less draconian options to save on cost...
Pamela Dunn, a noted Pasadena appellate attorney who won a surprise victory in a recent arbitration case, has died. She was 59...
Let us all hope that 2009 ushers in a new era of American confidence, writes Mark A. Neubauer. - Forum Column ...
A recent appellate decision confirmed that developers of raw land cannot recover anticipated future development profits by cha...
Verdicts
Lawyers for Train Crash Victims Run Into Cap and Venue Obstacles
By Cortney Fieldingn
One month after a crowded Metrolink train collided with a freight train during rush hour, killing 25 commuters and injuring 13...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Danger Zoning: Density Law Pits Developers Against City Planners
By Sara Libbyn
The controversy over the new housing density law involves the two competing interests of affordable housing development and lo...
Santa Fe Springs defense attorney Brian Oxman is known for representing celebrity clients, including (briefly) Michael Jackson...
Some $96 million in settlement funds from a smokeless tobacco class action in California is being held up by a lone objector. ...
Lawyers from Latham & Watkins can breathe easier after finishing a deal worth up to $900 million between London-based phar...
Los Angeles-headquartered Northrop Grumman Corp. has selected a Sheppard Mullin partner as the company's corporate vice presid...
In September, Jose Ledesma was sent to a Southern California immigration detention center, marking the second time in three ye...
Gale E. Kaneshiro's detailed guides help simplify complex felony cases and draw praise from lawyers. ...
Education
As Job Market Tightens, Schools Get Proactive for Law Students
By Rebecca U. Cho
A rapidly constricting law firm job market has prompted top law schools such as Harvard to aggressively shop their students to...
Some legal observers said they expect President Obama to steer sharply away from pre-emption through his policy directives, an...
In a blow to Chicago-based Mayer Brown's white-collar practice in Los Angeles, prominent litigators Bryan Daly and Chuck Krein...
The 1st District Court of Appeal recently issued a wakeup call to attorneys: You need to add techniques from the worlds of bus...
Lawyers are often characterized as vultures — and those who scrounge for business following a disaster make that stereotype mu...
Read more about the lawyers who shaped the California legal landscape this year. ...
Law Practice
A Year of Uncertainty: The Legal Business Stories that Defined 2008
By Jill Redhage
To put it mildly, 2008 was not a rosy one for the legal industry. Sub-prime woes and the credit crunch tempered the demand for...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Circuit Rejects Sex Offender's Life Sentence
By John Roemer
It is cruel and unusual punishment to make a Los Angeles man convicted of attempted rape serve 28 years to life for failing to...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Attorneys Must Work to Counteract the 'CSI Effect' on Jurors
By Sara Libbyn
A recent appellate case disproves what is often called the "CSI effect" — the perception that DNA evidence is infallible, writ...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
In a little-noticed order being cheered by the California attorney general, a federal judge in San Diego sent a class-action c...
Davis Wright Tremaine adds a health care partner in its Los Angeles office.
A growing number of green card holders now find themselves trapped in federal immigration detention centers for years while ba...
Doing painstaking research as a Fulbright scholar at Oxford quickly persuaded Judge Elia Weinbach to trade the musty halls...