Law Practice
Fresno Attorney Wins Trial Lawyers' Award With Big Verdict in Title IX Case
By Dhyana Levey
Many of Warren Paboojian's colleagues warned him against taking on the case of Stacy Johnson-Klein, a women's basketball coach...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Is Comprehensive Immigration Reform Just Around the Corner?
By Sara Libbyn
The Obama administration brings new hope for sensible immigration reform, writes Ali Noorani. - Forum Column ...
A federal judge in Santa Ana has certified a national class action against a Florida company that is the official nutritional ...
The False Claims Act permits a private person to bring a lawsuit on behalf of the United States against those who have falsely...
Attorneys for former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona will not be allowed to tell jurors in the ongoing trial about a prosecu...
Law Practice
Judge Requires Nurses, Not Teachers, to Give Insulin Shots
By Evan George
Despite a growing shortage of school nurses, state law prohibits teachers, librarians or other non-medical personnel from taki...
An appeals court ruled Friday that state prison officials failed in their duty to protect a transgender inmate from being sexu...
Judge Barry Russell's Evidence Manual is on every bankruptcy lawyer's desk. ...
Criminal
Lawyer-Parolee Mentoring Program Falls Victim to State Budget Cuts
By Jason W. Armstrong And Sean Win
Former State Bar President James O. Heiting, left, with Alfredo Tafoya, who has thrived under Heiting’s mentoring through the ...
Appearances are deceiving when it comes to Proposition 64 — a seemingly straightforward ballot initiative whose colorful histo...
Two litigators have teamed up to open boutique Spillane Weingarten in Los Angeles, targeting mid-market business clients.
Judge Leo Valentine Jr.'s dignified manner and deep, melodious voice lend an air of authority to the bench. ...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Citing Legal Fears, County Turns To Cops to Help Mental Patients
By Evan George
L.A. County's Department of Mental Health has quietly begun refusing to take emergency calls involving the mentally ill when n...
Former Judge Michael Ballachey doesn't mince words, and he doesn't dawdle.
Since Democrats took control of Congress in 2006, both the House and the Senate have pressured Occupational Safety and Health ...
With two years until he's termed out of office, state Assemblyman Dave Jones has his eye on a new prize: state insurance commi...
The layoffs come as two other San Francisco-origin firms are dissolving. Orrick's layoffs are in the corporate, real estate an...
Law Practice
Colleagues Recall U.S. Jurist's 'Brilliant Mind and Soft Heart'
By Jim Adamekn
Former colleagues and clerks of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Senior Judge Warren J. Ferguson remembered him Wednesday as ...
The other shoe dropped last week when a state appellate panel published an opinion that nixed a mediated class action settleme...
A team of attorneys from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman advised Hong Kong-based Asia Alternatives in securing $950 million of...
A former Townsend and Towsend and Crew patent litigator will rejoin the firm as a partner.
The Federal Circuit's recent 'Bilski' decision engages the issue of invention and transformation, writes Michael M. Rosen. - F...
In what appears to be a first-of-its kind lawsuit, San Mateo County sued Lehman Brothers officials and its auditor Thursday to...
Kamala Harris, right, smiles at Coni Binaley, left, campaign services coordinator, as she files papers Wednesday to run for Ca...
Two large teams of Thelen attorneys are off to their new firms, with Howrey scoring 40 attorneys from Thelen's prominent const...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Is Quitting for Winners? Some Lawyers Seem to Think So
By Sara Libbyn
Why do we assume that lawyers dislike law so much that if any one of the majority of us could just get a score big enough, we ...
Law Practice
Metrolink Blogger Faces Jail Time for Touching Conductor
By Peter Matuszakn
A blogger who rides the Metrolink train to work and moderates an online forum to vent criticism of the rail service may face j...
We should encourage President Obama to send the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to the Senate f...
Law Practice
Rents Fall in S.F. Providing Law Firms With Opportunities for Deals
By Alexia Garamfalvin
San Francisco commercial landlords are suffering the effects of the financial crisis. With banks going belly up, financing's b...
Law Practice
Judge Approves Pellicano's Request for Sentencing Delay
By Alan Mittelstaedtn
In an 11th hour decision, jailed ex-private investigator Anthony Pellicano pulled the plug on his Wednesday sentencing hearing...