The Supreme Court's Guantanamo decision leaves the U.S. Army no safe haven for the incarceration of its prisoners of war, writ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Making a Lateral Move Doesn't Have to Be a Grueling Experience
By Sara Libbyn
Whether it is increased responsibility, exposure, salary or simply convenience, any move you make should improve your career o...
Los Angeles-based Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott has acquired 19-attorney Washington, D.C., firm O'Connor & Hannan. ...
International
Top Afghan Attorney Looks to U.S. in Building Law at Home
By Cortney Fieldingn
The attorney general of Afghanistan said he learned his first lesson about the United States more than 30 years ago in a cafet...
City Attorney Dennis Herrera didn't waste time responding to the National Rifle Association's lawsuit filed Friday challenging...
Litigation
9th Circuit Blasts District Judge for Insider Trading Ruling
By Gabe Friedmann
U.S. District Judge Margaret Morrow erred when she concluded a businessman who bought and sold stock on a non-public tip could...
California is failing to provide adequate defense for indigent citizens in death penalty cases, one of many costly problems wi...
Sixth District Justice Wendy Duffy described her oral argument style as low-key in comparison with other justices she serves w...
June saw a slew of deals that exemplified the diversity of industry in California. From renewable energy to wine, a host of Ca...
Farella Braun + Martel has named partner Lara Gilman chair of the firm's family wealth practice.
The Department of Homeland Security, headed by Secretary Michael Chertoff, “failed to make promptly available the records” des...
Law Practice
Supreme Court Term Sparks Fewer 9th Circuit Fireworks
By Alexia Garamfalvin
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals largely stayed out of the headlines during the U.S. Supreme Court's ...
A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury has awarded $1.7 million to a woman who sued her medical malpractice lawyers for lega...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether a federal appeals court went too far in ruling that a California murder...
Afghanistan's attorney general will be here today to talk with area lawyers about establishing the rule of law in his homeland...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Parties Shouldn't Feel Constrained by Conventional ADR Systems
By Sara Libbyn
In appropriate cases, parties should weigh the cost of the full range of private dispute-resolution mechanisms against the los...
A class action that could fundamentally change the cable industry passed its first major hurdle last week when a federal judge...
The personal assistant to the leader of a Brooklyn-based Hasidic sect agreed Friday to plead guilty to taking part in a multim...
Most attorneys long to get a glimpse of how it feels to be on the other side of the jury box, a fly on the wall during deliber...
Industry Watch - L. Julius Turman, a labor and employment attorney at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in San Francisco, served as ...
An Orange County lawyer accused of taking part in the most expensive medical fraud in the nation's history was arraigned on Fr...
Having a working knowledge of criminal grand jury proceedings is essential to effective practice and administration of justice...
After the parties in the litigation over California's crowded prisons failed to reach a proposed settlement Friday, the three-...
Judges and Judiciary
Dead Judge's Lawsuit Raises Insurance Liability Issues
By Evan George
When a health insurer refused to pay for the only treatment doctors said could save his life, Superior Court Judge David Mintz...
A La Mesa attorney's attempt to resign quietly in the midst of a scandal has officials at the State Bar saying, "Not so fast."...
Following the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling striking down Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban, gun rights advocates, as expe...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Superior Court Judge Coleman A. Swart has announced his retirement after 25 years on the bench.
In a move in line with its plans for expansion in Silicon Valley, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal announced the addition of ...
Jacqueline Honovich Lewis' first week as a Superior Court commissioner went much like her last week as a referee.