Focus (Forum & Focus)
Addressing Underage Drinking by Enabling It Won't Solve Anything
By Sara Libbyn
Addressing the underage drinking epidemic by enabling it would be akin to suggesting that we can solve the problem of speeding...
Litigation
Brothers' Joyride Ends With Online-Marketing SettlementBrothers' Joyride Ends With Online-Marketing Settlement
By Noah Barronn
RIVERSIDE - Two brothers in their mid 20s will have to relinquish a Lamborghini and Ferrari that they bought with profits from...
SAN FRANCISCO - Whether Americans can recover emotional distress damages against the government when it violates their privacy...
Daniel Meron, general counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has been tapped to co-chair Latham & Wa...
Environmentalists have opened a new front in their battle to fight climate change in California by seeking to force the state ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Megan's Law Loophole Gives Predators an Advantage
By Sara Libbyn
Through an unfortunate loophole, Megan's Law, enacted to protect the public, can actually be used by sexual predators to secur...
Just as immigration judges are making Herculean efforts to keep an impossibly overburdened system on track, they are demoraliz...
So 1,600 lawyers meet up in Las Vegas. No, it's not the beginning of a bad joke. It's the start of the 26th annual Consumer ...
RIVERSIDE - After deliberating less than a day, a federal court jury Thursday found a former Marine not guilty of manslaughter...
Immigration
Acting Chair Named to Head Board of Immigration Appeals
By Sandra Hernandezn
Juan P. Osuna, a former professor and editor, has been named chairman of the Board of Immigration Appeals, ending speculation ...
Jeffer Mangels adds a litigator as of counsel in Los Angeles.
Law Practice
Appeals Panel Sides With MoFo In Fight With Federal Judge
By Laura Ernden
When a federal judge issued sanctions and deprived Morrison & Foerster of attorneys' fees in a civil rights case won by tw...
A recent 9th Circuit case involving the government's No-Fly List emphasizes the need for balance between security and individu...
An angry federal judge ripped into a defense lawyer Wednesday for using a court filing to request a response to rumors about h...
In a decision with potentially far-reaching implications, the California Supreme Court has found that parties to an arbitratio...
Jurors in the federal wiretapping conspiracy case against attorney Terry N. Christensen and private eye Anthony Pellicano bega...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Don't Close the Door on Society's Most Vulnerable
By Sara Libbyn
Even the most disadvantaged citizens have a right to access our courts, especially when the state seeks to balance the budget ...
Litigation
Bratz Judge Asks Attorneys to End Their Costly Litigation
By Jason W. Armstrong
In a bid to end further litigation in the Bratz doll fight, U.S. District Judge Stephen G. Larson on Wednesday barred new moti...
A federal court jury began deliberating Wednesday in the unprecedented trial of a former Marine charged with killing several u...
Law Practice
Experts Are Divided on the Impact of Thelen's Latest Departures
By Devan Mcclainen
As Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner deals with the impending departures of eight partners in New York, experts are divi...
Holland & Knight's San Francisco office has gained two public finance attorneys.
A homeless assistance program that substitutes housing and social services for cash payouts discriminates against disabled peo...
Federal prosecutors and defense lawyers have battled for five weeks over what attorney Terry N. Christensen and sleuth Anthony...
The justices of the California Supreme Court are a collegial bunch. But take a look at the employment cases alone, and you'll ...
It's no accident that the California Supreme Court has an unusually low rate of dissents. ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
State's Mandatory Algebra Law Is a Plan That Doesn't Add Up
By Sara Libbyn
A law recently approved by the state Department of Education will place all eighth grade students into Algebra 1, starting in ...
Judges and Judiciary
Los Angeles Judges Name Two New Commissioners
By Cortney Fieldingn
Superior Court judges have elected two new commissioners to fill vacancies created by retirements, and both are internal hires...
Class actions have now been filed against many financial institutions, as well as their directors and officers, by disgruntled...
Immigration
Immigration Reforms Result in Fewer Judges, More Prosecutors
By Sandra Hernandezn
Judicial appointments are stalled by budget woes and the scandal over the politicized hiring of immigration judges ...
Web Exclusive - Juniper Networks reached a tentative settlement in a backdating-related lawsuit that leaves open the door for ...