State Bar officials have named Edward J. McIntyre, a partner with San Diego's Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith to its Commi...
Michael Kwun, who was hired four years ago as Google Inc.'s first in-house litigator and had been the public face of its comba...
After a career as a civil lawyer, newly appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James A. Steele makes a smooth trans...
Law Practice
After Losing Discrimination Claim, Man Faces Investigation
By Noah Barronn
After a trial with several bizarre twists, a man who claimed Del Taco violated his disability rights has lost his suit seekin...
It is too soon to tell whether politicians, business people and lawyers will learn more from the current mortgage crisis than ...
Lawyers will go to court today to try to stop Alameda County from eliminating monthly welfare checks for more than half of the...
What a difference a week makes. In third place a day after the June 3 election, prosecutor Lane Liroff now appears to have se...
While state property and family laws may treat married same-sex couples the same as married heterosexual couples, the federal ...
U.S. Supreme Court
Justices Concur With 9th Circuit On Job Bias Suit
By Lawrence Hurleyn
The Equal Protection Clause does not allow public employees to make individualized claims of employment discrimination, the U....
Agreeing to hear an appeal by Philip Morris for the second time, the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it would again take a look...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Principle of Fairness is Often Overlooked During Litigation
By Sara Libbyn
For many parties in mediation and litigation matters, the perception of being treated fairly is more important than the actual...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Group Turns Heads With Unusual String of Arbitration Wins
By Greg Katzn
A California woman has won a rare victory in a debt arbitration from the National Arbitration Forum, an agency that has drawn ...
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court Limits Patent Holders' Reach on Royalty Payments
By David Houstonn
Rejecting a patent holder's bid to collect multiple rounds of royalties, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that ...
In the first court loss for Taser International, a federal jury in San Jose has awarded $6.2 million to the family of a Salina...
McDermott brings on new partner from Latham & Watkins.
LOS ANGELES - Former employees of the mortgage industry in Los Angeles County have an opportunity to receive job training and ...
Judge Barbara Kronlund says juvenile court is the most important assignment she has had because you can affect a child's life ...
Six months in, Alex Kozinski has started strong as chief judge of the nation's biggest federal appellate court. ...
Appellate Practice
No Room at the Inn for Quinn Lawyers During Bratz Doll Case
By Jason W. Armstrong
No vacancy. That was the welcome that powerhouse Los Angeles litigator John Quinn and his legal team received recently when th...
Eight new members have been appointed to the Judicial Council, the policy making body for courts throughout the state. ...
In the ideal interdependent mentoring relationship there exists mutual fulfillment, compassion, respect, open communication an...
Criminal
Longtime Friends and Adversaries Kozinski, Reinhardt Trade Barbs at Panel
By Cortney Fieldingn
9th Circuit judges Alex Kozinski and Stephen Reinhardt brought their left-right road-show to Beverly Hills Thursday night. The...
A recent Supreme Court decision limits the ability of parties to contract to more expansive standards of review for arbitral a...
It's been decades since former Republican Congressman Thomas J. Campbell worked at a law firm, but come this summer he will be...
Pittsburgh-based Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney is shuttering its Redwood Shores outpost at the end of the month. ...
Three lawyers in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office were laid off last week and more cuts might be coming in the wak...
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Laurence J. Rittenband, who presided over Roman Polanski's 1977 prosecution and convic...
U.S. Supreme Court
Under Scrutiny Over Conflicts, Justices Sell off a Few Stocks
By David Houstonn
The three U.S. Supreme Court justices whose stock holdings have forced them to recuse themselves from recent cases have each s...
Already accused by several foreign governments and its leading rival of antitrust violations, semiconductor giant Intel Corp. ...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
