The challenge for all levels of government is to figure out how to promote the development of solar energy in a responsible ma...
Law Practice
9th Circuit Strikes Ruling Against State's Air Pollution Efforts
By Fiona Smith
Web Exclusive - A federal appeals court stepped into a long-running fight between environmentalists and the state over air qua...
Law Practice
Federal Judge Says Medical Pot Raids May Violate U.S. Constitution
By Rebecca Beyer
Web Exclusive - In a first-of-its kind ruling, a federal judge in San Jose says the U.S. government's selective targeting of m...
Litigation
Mattel Seeks $1.8 Billion in War Over Bratz Doll Design
By Jason W. Armstrong
The lead attorney for Mattel urged a federal jury Wednesday to force a competitor to pay his client nearly $2 billion in damag...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
How an Unassuming Hero Cleared the Way for an Important Legal Tool
By Sara Libbyn
The sacrifices of a 1970s farmworker eventually established a procedure that has been used to protect the rights of political ...
A boycott of the Manchester Grand Hyatt has spurred the Association of American Law Schools to move all of its annual conferen...
If the Justice Department won’t clean up its own immigration mess, then lawyers zealously representing aggrieved immigration c...
Four Thelen Reid project finance partners have joined Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff in San Francisco.
Whether he's restoring Civil War rifles or rebuilding his home from the ashes of an accidental fire, Judge Wayne R. Parrish br...
Discipline
9th Circuit Has Stern Words for L.A. Immigration Judge Who Denied Relief
By Jim Adamekn
For the second time in less than a year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rebuked a prominent Los Angeles immigration...
Noemi Robinson is a member of the Pink Pistols, a gay advocacy group for guns as self-defense. She has children and keeps her ...
Middle-aged and elderly television writers who accused studios and talent agencies of age discrimination have reached the firs...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Character Witnesses Hold Prosecutor in High Regard
By Amy Yarbroughn
A former San Jose mayor, an assemblywoman and the general counsel for a Silicon Valley tech giant all came to the defense of e...
The SAFETY Act represents a rare opportunity to minimize or eliminate the potentially devastating liability associated with te...
A renowned forensic audio expert testified Tuesday that he could not determine if the recorded conversations between attorney ...
The attorneys who stood up to the government's appalling military commissions should be applauded for taking on great risk to ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Let Kids Be Kids - And Let Them Be Adopted by Caring Families
By Sara Libbyn
A state appellate court was right to recognize that no child should have wait for the day when his or her birth father is reha...
Prosecutors have opposed a double jeopardy claim by accused pornographer Ira Isaacs, whose federal obscenity case resulted in...
Web Exclusive - A San Bernardino attorney has been swept up in a federal child pornography investigation that netted 55 men, t...
Law Practice
Rocky Road: L.A's City Attorney May Face a Criminal Inquiry by Feds
By Peter Matuszakn
Web Exclusive - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo sidetracked a city controller's investigation last week, but he may...
More than 90 hospitals throughout California failed to obey a recall and remove tainted vials of the blood-thinning drug hepar...
Six attorneys were elected to partnership at Loeb & Loeb in its New York and Los Angeles offices.
In June, Joseph R. Re became president of the Federal Circuit Bar Association. That is the professional group for lawyers who ...
Though she comes from a long line of sheepherders, San Diego County Judge Eugenia Eyherabide decided to follow a lone uncle ...
“The Supreme Court has spoken loud and clear and full that equal services are for everyone in California,” said Lamda Legal la...
Class representatives deserve extra compensation for bearing burdens not shared by the other class members; it is only fair th...
The clear lesson of a recent 9th Circuit case is to file notices of appeal by hand and not to rely on the mail, write Richard ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Lawyers Should Do Their Homework Before Doing Business in China
By Sara Libbyn
Lawyers doing business in China should brush up on the cultural intracacies that play a huge role in business transactions the...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Retired Judge's New Mantra: 'Deal or Ordeal'
By Greg Katzn
Superior Court Judge Alexander H. Williams III is about to take his first job ever in the private sector. ...
Law Practice
Man Wins Suit Over Drug-Filled Vehicle Bought From Government
By Pat Broderick
A Mexican man, imprisoned for a year when a vehicle he bought from the U.S. government was found loaded with marijuana, has be...