In just a few years on the federal bench, U.S. District Judge James V. Selna has earned a reputation for being fair, bright, h...
Focus Column - By David A. Gerber - The term "employer" should be restored to its original legal interpretation to avoid unnec...
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...
Lawyer John E. Brown heads the effort to restore long-lost artifacts to the Mission Inn, a Riverside national landmark. ...
The House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee stepped up its constitutional showdown with the White House over the mass fi...
Government
Pillsbury Partner Takes No. 2 Position With U.S. Attorney
By David Houstonn
SAN FRANCISCO - A former federal prosecutor who's spent the past five years running the San Francisco office of Pillsbury Wint...
California Courts of Appeal
Panel Upholds $82 Million Rollover Judgment
By Laura Ernden
Bucking a recent trend, a state appellate court in San Diego on Monday upheld an $82.6 million judgment against Ford Motor Co....
LOS ANGELES - A name partner at one of the West Coast's largest immigration firms has been sentenced to two years in federal p...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists sued the Secretary of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Monday after it mi...
Focus Column - By Deborah A. Berthel - An appellate court recently shot down the use of White v. Western Title Insurance Co...
Constitutional Law
Lawyers Sue Cisco Over Patent Troll Tracker Blog
By Alexia Garamfalvin
SAN FRANCISCO - The hazards of blogging while working as an in-house attorney for a major corporation are getting spelled out ...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge has dismissed the $2.5 million punitive damages a jury awarded to five Nicaraguan farmwor...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Drug Flaw: Criminalizing Salvia Could Be Costly and Harmful
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Alex Coolman - An Assembly bill that criminalizes the drug salvia is well-intentioned but could ultimately b...
Web Exclusive - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law...
Like Petra Contreras, a growing number of legal permanent residents face deportation proceedings because of old convictions th...
Industry Watch - Daily Journal Staff Writer - Steve Berkman, who was the lone real estate partner in Winston & Strawn's Sa...
Entertainment & Sports
Judge Leans Toward Tossing Radio Host's Copyright Case
By David Houstonn
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge says she's inclined to toss out claims by conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage tha...
SACRAMENTO - Breaking up is hard to do, especially when the relationship has been terrific. But that's what the Yuba City offi...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Corporate real estate lawyer Masood Sohaili, a 25-year veteran of O'Melveny & Myers i...
Forum Column - By Martha Burk - Females must ensure that the next president will work to undo the damage to women’s rights tha...
Industry Watch - By Jonathan Vanian - San Francisco-based Heller Ehrman has scooped Nick Seddon, former head of DLA Piper's As...
Entertainment & Sports
Documents Reveal Evidence In Steroid-Use Perjury Trial
By David Houstonn
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Olympic cyclist Tammy Thomas took so many steroids that her voice changed and she grew a full beard, ac...
Firm Watch
Heller Ehrman Loses Litigation Veteran to Dickstein Shapiro
By Maya Meinert
Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Longtime Heller Ehrman attorney Stephen N. Goldberg has left the firm for Dickstein Shapiro...
Forum Column - By David Llewellyn - A recent case in Malaysia demonstrates the anti-liberty ramifications the introduction of ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Board OKs Tightening Rules for Resigning Attorneys
By Amy Yarbroughn
Web Exclusive - SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys in trouble might not have much longer to bow out gracefully. After months of discuss...
Criminal
Pellicano's Assistant Testifies About Everyday Criminal Conduct
By Zack Vaneyckn
LOS ANGELES - After spending most of the day on tedious chain-of-custody evidence, federal prosecutors dropped a bombshell on ...
Involved in the judicial nominations process debate are, from left, former Republican congressman James E. Rogan, Sen. Patrick...
After what seemed like a dubious start, San Jose Judge Roger Efremsky turned bankruptcy law into his specialty. ...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Focus Column - By Jonathan Handel - The new Writers Guild contract shows that the writers faced down six multinational media c...