Focus Column - By Jonathan Handel - The new Writers Guild contract shows that the writers faced down six multinational media c...
Industry Watch - By Jonanthan Vanian - Nonprofit Honors Litigator Shernoff
Industry Watch - By Jill Redhage and Jonanthan Vanian - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup ...
SANTA ANA - In January, some Newport Beach residents sued their hometown for adopting an ordinance they say is so feeble that,...
An unexpected affront put Van Nuys Judge Susan Speer on the road to her true love, criminal law. ...
Known for his pugnacity, Andrew Stein, the new president of the Criminal Courts Bar Association, plans to work for increased c...
U.S. Supreme Court
New Law Fails to Compel Justices to Sell Stock and Avoid Conflict of Interest
By David Houstonn
A new law that makes it easier for federal judges to avoid recusals because of their stock holdings may not be having quite th...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County jury returned a $38 million punitive damages verdict against a Chinese manufacturer on Thursday, ...
SACRAMENTO - California trial lawyers have quietly shelved a package of ballot measures targeting corporate wrongdoers after t...
RIVERSIDE - A federal court jury in Riverside has awarded a recreational vehicle company $3.5 million in compensatory damages ...
Employment Column - By Nancy G. Berner - As the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance works its way through the appella...
LOS ANGELES - In-house lawyers John Page, who has made hiring diverse outside counsel a personal mission, and Naomi Kobayashi,...
Litigation
Justice Panel Urges DAs to Set Exculpatory Evidence Policies
By Ryan Olivern
LOS ANGELES - The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice is recommending that district attorneys across t...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - A proposed bill would reduce the statute of wills to "he says, she says" battles of disap...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Curing Health Care: Medical Services Should Be Available to All
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The United States needs to create a society in which health care is readily available to a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Like the well-worn dirt road that neutral Ronald Sabraw takes to get home to his retreat in the hills, his pat...
LOS ANGELES - The Alliance for Children's Rights, a Los Angeles-based free legal services organization dedicated to protecting...
Focus Column - By Mark J. Hancock and Steven D. Wasserman - Some California provisions encourage the filing of weak claims and...
SANTA ANA - If attorney Alfred G. Rava hadn't won an important civil rights ruling from the California Supreme Court last year...
LOS ANGELES - A Van Nuys personal-injury lawyer who signed a lien to pay his clients' medical bills with settlement money cann...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Orders Defamation Trial
By John Roemer
A San Diego County politician who accused Chicago billionaire Sam Zell of rent-gouging senior citizens at trailer parks must f...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court could be poised to give guidance on what has become a murky area of criminal law ...
LOS ANGELES - Grisly cases of homeless patients unloaded on Skid Row by local hospitals have spurred two high-profile lawsuits...
SAN FRANCISCO - Apparently, the lure of $160,000 starting salaries isn't enough to draw more students to the legal profession....
LOS ANGELES - The lawyers in the Anthony Pellicano conspiracy trial tried to define the investigator in their own ways with th...
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...
Brian Casey, who took paternity leave in 2007 to help his wife and bond with their new daughter, Ava, is part of an emerging g...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Officials Revive Plan to Cut 70 Beds at Hospital
By Evan George
LOS ANGELES - Facing mounting budget woes, Los Angeles County public health officials have revived a plan to scrap 70 beds at ...
Intellectual Property
Discovery Will Start in Patent Suit by Former Fish Attorney
By Alexia Garamfalvin
SAN JOSE - Lawyers for Scott Harris, a San Diego-based attorney who was forced out of Fish & Richardson last year for sell...
A memorial service is scheduled Saturday in Sunnyvale for Christopher J. Place, a patent litigation associate in Ropes & G...