Judge Edward P. Allard III was hesitant about taking on a family law assignment, but his military background and decades as a ...
Law Practice
Clerk-Turned-Equity Partner Guides $895 Million Settlement
By Gabe Friedmann
Ramzi Abadou was a dreadlocked college graduate when he landed his first job as a document clerk at a law firm. Fifteen years ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
When Clients Become Difficult, Attorneys Must Walk a Fine Line
By Sara Libbyn
When clients become difficult during the discovery process, lawyers must get creative, write Lynn Duryee and Matthew N. White ...
The state Legislature is considering AB 1989, which will expand California's WARN law if passed, writes D. Gregory Valenza - E...
We have the chance now to remake our immigration policy in the modern era by grappling honestly with the fact that the America...
The presence or absence of providing for the recovery of attorney fees by the prevailing party will alter the dynamics of a me...
After practicing in Europe, Asia and Australia, independent mediator Charles B. Parselle makes a home in Southern California. ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Anti-Abortion Group's Rights Violated, Panel Says
By Cortney Fieldingn
Members of the anti-abortion group were forced to remove a mobile layout of enlarged, early-term aborted fetus photos near a R...
A federal judge dealt a blow to the Bush administration late Wednesday, ruling that the state secrets privilege does not bar a...
With ballot preparation deadlines looming, debate is heating up over an effort to block a November ballot measure aimed at ove...
Los Banos Memorial, a small, rural, 48-bed hospital in Merced County, is strapped for cash and staff. Both sides of what becam...
Donald Currier, secretary of legal affairs and chief counsel at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, h...
Judges and Judiciary
'Prolific Opinion Writer' Will Step Down From 2nd District
By Anat Rubinn
Miriam A. Vogel is not retiring. She's just moving on. Eighteen years to the day after she joined the 2nd District Court of Ap...
The mother of the man credited with creating the hugely popular Bratz line of dolls said her son designed the dolls while livi...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA Probation Officially Ends For Whittier
By Amy Yarbroughn
After years of battling the American Bar Association over its accreditation standards, a Costa Mesa law school is finally off ...
The government should think more about the collateral effects of investment tax incentives before making them permanent, write...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Supreme Court Should Have Deferred to D.C.'s Legislature
By Sara Libbyn
We should be shocked by the Supreme Court's willingness to distort the text and history of the Second Amendment to ignore the ...
Contracts
All Eyes Are on Hollywood as SAG Fails to Negotiate a Deal
By Nicolas Taborekn
The deadline for a new Screen Actors Guild contract with the major studios passed without an agreement Tuesday, but Hollywood ...
A federal judge in Santa Ana on Tuesday declined prosecutors' request to put Orange County billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III o...
The University of California, Irvine, has been trying to keep its new law school's founding faculty secret until a big announc...
Under pressure from leading lawmakers in Congress, the Justice Department revealed this week that it is willing to revise for...
The Supreme Court ended its 2007-2008 term last week with 11 5-4 opinions, compared with 23 such rulings last term. Justice An...
Firm Watch
Former Jones Day Attorney Joins Orrick's Growing IP Stable
By Rebecca U. Cho
The former head of Jones Day's Los Angeles intellectual property group, Robert W. Dickerson, jumped to Orrick, Herrington &...
Corporate
Plaintiffs Attempt Unusual Strategy in Cases Against Chevron
By Rebecca Beyer
Chevron Corp. has fought for nine years against a group of Nigerian plaintiffs who claim they suffered human rights abuses und...
Eight lawyers from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld - partners Laura M. Franze, Fraser McAlpine, M. Brett Burns and Roland M...
Musician Billy Preston played with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, did time in prison, fought a drug habit and died a rock...
Law Practice
Howard Rice Defers Start for Three of Eight Fall Associates
By Jill Redhage
San Francisco's Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, a 110-attorney law firm, deferred the start date of three of ...
Law Practice
Insurance Recovery Partners Leave Heller for Covington
By Jonathan Vaniann
Covington & Burling is beefing up its Northern California presence as two Heller Ehrman partners jump ship to the Washingt...
Surprising a federal judge, the legal team for Terry N. Christensen appealed one of her decisions before it was actually final...
Employers should consider taking a number of precautionary steps to minimize exposures from an employee's negligent use of a c...