Forum (Forum & Focus)
Supreme Court Case Highlights the Hypocrisy of Judicial Ethics
By Sara Libbyn
It's time judges stopped wringing their hands about the ethical sleaze of judicial elections and adopt rules to take money out...
Reinstating the Fairness Doctrine may or may not be a good idea ("Many Hope to Bring the Fairness Doctrine Back From the Dead,...
Long before the current recession, Douglas Ingram began trimming staff as general counsel of health care and pharmaceutical co...
Tom Perez, a former high-ranking U.S. Department of Justice official, is headed back to the department, this time as head of t...
Government
Former State Bar President Will Be Counsel to President Obama
By Amelia Hansenn
Jeff Bleich, a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson, immediate past president of the State Bar and a die-hard fan of Presiden...
Securities
Quest Executives to Pay SEC $300,000 in Backdating Stock Options Scam
By Gabe Friedmann
The settled complaint, filed in federal court in Santa Ana last week, marks a third company in Southern California whose execu...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Foreclosures Are Not the Only Remedy for Mortgage Failures
By Sara Libbyn
Using foreclosures for this mortgage mess is like cutting glass with a hammer. ...
Law Practice
San Diego Real Estate Lawyer Joins Allen Matkins From Luce
By Pat Broderick
Litigator Valentine Hoy, 49, left Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps after 24 years, where he represented businesses, inves...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Cops Are Immune in Botched Raid
By John Roemer
Two Los Angeles residents who shared a Rancho Palos Verdes home with relatives running a brothel have lost their bid to cash i...
Attorneys in an antitrust class action suit against television networks and cable companies have gone "all in" - in poker spea...
Allowing D.C. to have a vote in the House is plainly unconstitutional. ...
The deep economic recession that has ratcheted up demand for restructuring work is making bankruptcy lawyers a very hot commod...
The recession is providing firms a chance to exercise new clarity of thinking when it comes to firm structure and hiring. ...
California Courts of Appeal
No Proof Parole Board Has a Systemic Problem, Court Says
By Laura Ernden
A state appellate court shot down on Friday a Santa Clara County judge's attempt to revamp the state parole board, which has b...
Personal Injury & Torts
Doctor Wins $6 Million From Employer for Botched Surgery
By Jason W. Armstrong
Loma Linda Medical Center is told it must pay $5.8 million in damages to a patient and his wife for a botched back surgery. Th...
Lawyers defending beleaguered mortgage lenders have received a life line from a federal judge in Santa Ana who cast one compan...
Courts use a sliding-scale balancing test when determining the "forseeability" of certain crimes. ...
Judicial Profile
Judge's Path to Leadership Post Is Blueprint for Other Women Lawyers
By Cortney Fieldingn
Lee Smalley Edmon is poised to be elevated to presiding judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 2011. She will be th...
Hustling for business is more important than ever. ...
Justice Douglas P. Miller has won over even one-time adversaries with his professionalism and impartiality. ...
From the brink of delinquency to a Harvard Law School graduate dedicated to public service, Orange County Superior Court Judge...
With some popular weight loss procedures losing their patents soon, like LAP-BAND surgery, there is a rush to find the next bi...
Litigation
Parsons Prevails in Dispute Over Iraq Reconstruction Case
By Cortney Fieldingn
A jury has quashed a Dubai company's attempt to collect more than $11 million from Pasadena-based Parsons Corp. for backing ou...
Verdicts
Class Actions Are on the Rise In California, Federal Courts
By Cortney Fieldingn
Los Angeles County Superior Court class action filings have increased nearly 105 percent over the last five years. At the stat...
Aviva Bobb, best known for presiding over the McMartin preschool molestation trial, will join Alternative Resolution Centers t...
As confidential information today is largely stored electronically, companies have turned to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act....
Latin American countries are leapfrogging the United States in the fight for LGBT rights. ...
The value of a securities class action settlement took a nosedive in 2008, dropping by more than 50 percent, according to a ne...
In an effort to protect immigrants from exploitation, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced legislation Thursday that wo...
Haley J. Fromholz likes to mix it up every dozen years or so. He spent the first 12 years after graduating from Duke law scho...
