Anthony Pellicano orchestrated a corrupt enterprise disguised as a legitimate private detective agency that broke the law to g...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Prison Medical Bill Passes First Committee Test
By Linda Rapattoni
A $6.9 billion plan by a court-appointed receiver to raise medical care in California's prisons to constitutional standards me...
Administrative/Regulatory
Bill Shifts Warning Burden to Drug Makers
By Cortney Fieldingn
The California Assembly's Judiciary Committee approved a bill Tuesday that would make drug companies solely responsible for wa...
The federal government's long-running stock options backdating investigation of Pixar Animation Studios, the other Steve Jobs-...
British-based Clyde & Co. has lured 10 Duane Morris attorneys to open a San Francisco office that will help bolster the la...
Focus Column - By Paul D. Fogel and Dennis Peter Maio - The 9th Circuit may need to get involved to clarify a court case that ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
When Talks Reach An Impasse, Mediators Work Their Magic
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Victoria Pynchon - In a perfect world, our social evolution would keep pace with our technological progress,...
A decision to protect the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could set into motion the first major test of how a fede...
In an unusual move, the U.S. government has admitted its negligence caused the death of a detained Salvadoran immigrant, who w...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Panel Finds Judge's Order Went Too Far
By John Roemer
U.S. District Court Judge Christina A. Snyder of Los Angeles went too far in trying to manage sprawling national class action ...
Humboldt County Superior Court Judge Christopher Wilson has taken lunch breaks walking through the bleaker side of Eureka, wit...
Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...
Homeowner Julie Webb, left, is spending about 93 percent of her net annual income of $77,000 just to make the almost $4,000 mo...
Several disability rights advocates were angry Monday after a legislative committee approved of a measure supported by busines...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
When Prosecutors Act as Decision-Makers, the People Lose
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - California courts have recognized that in addition to eliminating actual bias, our Const...
Michael J. Lawson, 1950-2008, a respected commercial litigator and partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius, died Friday of kidne...
One of Anthony Pellicano's co-defendants failed to get the mistrial he was seeking Monday, but a federal judge did agree to el...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
'Irrepressible' Attorney Had Success in Variety of Roles
By Greg Katzn
Jules D. Barnett, 1916-2008, a longtime fixture in the local legal community as a Los Angeles County Superior Court commission...
In the months leading up to the launch of a new Web site that allows people to publicize their grievances and then sit back an...
The Bush administration has sent a strong signal to California that the federal government is not backing down in its struggle...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Home Depot Opponents Frustrated by Mediators' Efforts
By Greg Katzn
A massive "community dialogue," convened Saturday in Sunland to address locals' opposition to a proposed Home Depot, left comm...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - Areva Martin's 4th in a 4-part series on autism. ...
Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...
Clay Smith started out as a business lawyer. Then his legal career took a new tack and he landed on Orange County's criminal c...
"There's no question what the end goal is for those who would shut the courtroom doors on our clients," said Lori E. Andrus, a...
Matthew Larrabee, the chairman of San Francisco-based Heller Ehrman, will move to New York in June, the firm confirmed Friday....
Morrison & Foerster's Orange County office will close at the end of June, and managing partner Dean Zipser and top litigat...
Government
City Attorney, Officials Clash Over Funding for May Day Defense
By Peter Matuszakn
Nearly a year after the first lawsuits were filed against the city in response to the May Day clash at MacArthur Park, officia...
Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Los Angeles-based litigation giant Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges will soon ope...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
What Voters 'Don't Ask' but Can 'Tell' About Obama's Race
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Devon Carbado - As Barack Obama's candidacy has proven, people are judged both by the color of their skin an...