Forum (Forum & Focus)
Simplify, Simplify: A Mantra for Transcendentalists and Tax Reformers Alike
By Sara Libbyn
Tax reform should include a simplification of the process, so everyone can choose a vastly less complicated system with only t...
A new revolution in trying cases is brewing: cognitive science, writes Robert D Brain.
Web Exclusive - Starting today, San Francisco smokers won't find their cigarettes at Walgreens or any other drug store. They c...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
For a Growing Number of Firms, Outsourcing Is an Attractive Option
By Amanda Becker
When a call to a credit card company is answered by a worker in India, most consumers no longer bat an eye. Companies have lon...
Web Exclusive - The mid-size firm that represented the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and White House intern Monica Lewinsky is...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Governor Vetoes Mediation Program Funding Bill
By Greg Katzn
Web Exclusive - A bill that would have increased funding for community mediation programs by $5 million has fallen victim to t...
Litigation
From the Desert, Lawyer Rises as Fighter for the Polar Bear
By Jason W. Armstrong And Sean Win
Joshua Tree lawyer Kassie Siegel has emerged as the face of the successful effort to get the polar bear listed as a threatened...
Entertainment industry officials Monday hailed the passage of a scaled-down bill that will add an intellectual property enforc...
Protecting political speech is crucial to our democracy, even when such speech occurs inside of a schoolyard, writes Taylor An...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would have provided interpreters for high-priority civil cases in Los Angele...
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman swooped up Thelen's China practice, taking 20 attorneys from the San Francisco-based firm, Pil...
Sacramento Judge Peter J. McBrien was recently the subject of a recall effort led by angry litigants. Now, he's in trouble wit...
With opening statements barely a week away, famed Los Angeles litigator Thomas J. Nolan of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &...
In rapid succession, with two recent decisions, the California Supreme Court has reshaped the legal landscape for arbitrations...
Despite the successful passage of a bond measure to fix California aging courthouses, Chief Justice Ronald M. George predicts ...
Law Practice
Delegates Give Resounding 'I Do' to Marriage Act at State Bar Meeting
By Amy Yarbroughn
Web Exclusive - The Conference of Delegates voted on a wide variety of issues at this year's State Bar meeting; the subjects o...
Law Practice
Facebook Gets Political Firepower With Its New General Counsel
By Laura Ernden
Facebook ended months of speculation about who would lead its legal team by hiring a Kirkland & Ellis partner in Washingto...
The fallout from the firing of several U.S. attorneys almost two years ago is in no danger of dissipating after the Justice De...
“It’s really a big game of catch up for lawyers that haven’t been following the green building trend,” said Donald Simon, an e...
U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien said he will personally prosecute the Missouri woman accused of creating a fictitious MySpace ...
Even as negotiations over the proposed $700 billion bailout package consumed much of the oxygen on Capitol Hill Friday, the Se...
An uptick in patent applications for garments and a spate of lawsuits over fabric copyrights are a sign that serving these gar...
Law Practice
Man Sentenced to 127 Years for Massive Elder Fraud Scheme
By Jason Armstrongn
In what he described as one of the most serious cases of elder fraud in the state’s history, a Superior Court judge Friday sen...
Gang injunctions are a valuable tool used by law enforcement in combating criminal street gangs, writes Max B. Shiner.
Heller Ehrman's "wind-down" began Friday as partners cast electronic votes on the policy committee's proposal for how the firm...
A federal appellate panel has tossed six of 14 counts on which former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Ivanovich Lazarenko was c...
Maybe the many thousands who have voluntarily chosen arbitration over three millennia knew something our legislators don’t, wr...
A long-awaited government report released this month found substantial disparities exist in the rate at which immigration judg...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Google-Yahoo Deal Could Encourage a High Degree of Secrecy
By Sara Libbyn
Whatever the Justice Department decides about a possible Google-Yahoo deal, its analysis should be revealed so that advertiser...
Self-Assessment Test by Hon. Alex Ricciardulli
