Litigation
Homeowners, Executive File Suits Against KB Home, Countrywide Financial
By Peter Matuszakn
Web Exclusive - Piggybacking on a federal whistle-blower suit filed January by a former executive claiming that KB Home and Co...
A lawyer involved in a new antitrust class action against BAR/BRI urged in an e-mail that the plaintiffs share their complaint...
Akerman Senterfitt has added two heavy hitters to its Los Angeles environmental law practice as the Florida-based firm tries t...
A battle is looming before disgraced litigator William S. Lerach collects a possible $50 million cut of the attorney fees from...
Judges and Judiciary
Removed Jurist Files for Re-Election With Appeal Pending
By Jim Adamekn
Robert G. Spitzer, a judge ordered off the bench last year for judicial misconduct, has filed papers to run for his former sea...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge's Departure Underscores Immigration Court's Problems
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may have left the Department of Justice, but his legacy continues ...
SAN JOSE — A respected federal judge on Wednesday scolded both sides in the long-running patent-infringement lawsuit between R...
Web Exclusive - The BAR/BRI saga continues. On Wednesday, Eliot G. Disner filed another antitrust class action against Kaplan...
SACRAMENTO - Los Angeles County prosecutors were desperate to get the death penalty for Adam Miranda after he brazenly shot to...
LOS ANGELES - The California Bar Foundation is one of six organizations splitting $365,000 in unpaid residual fees from a cons...
Focus Column -By Barry Landsberg, Joanna McCallum and Andrew Struve - Proposition 64 imposed dramatic new standing and injury ...
Technology & Science
Time Crunch Threatens Passage of Senate's Patent Reform Bill
By Alexia Garamfalvin
WASHINGTON - The chances of Congress passing a major patent reform bill this year could be under threat simply because the Sen...
SAN FRANCISCO - The pros and cons of same-sex marriage will get an airing March 4 in oral arguments before the California Supr...
SACRAMENTO - Lobbyists and lawmakers expressed bitter disappointment Wednesday at the demise of a ballot measure that would ha...
The American Inns of Court, the U.S. counterpart to the British legal mentoring organization, will add a new specialty inn nex...
Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - The legal community clings to some cruel stereotypes about lawyers who serve in courtroom role...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
From 'Rats' to Riches: Whistle-Blowers Deserve Increased Protection
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Mark Labaton - Whistle-blowers who report fraud are well-deserving of recent legislation offering them more ...
Michael J. Shepard, of Heller Ehrman in San Francisco, successfully represented a former JDS Uniphase CEO - one of the Daily J...
The National Association of Women Lawyers, the country's oldest women's bar organization, will be holding its midyear meeting ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
En Banc Takes Center Stage at 9th Circuit
By John Roemer
Most of the appellate court's unusually high number of reviews in January involve conservative results. ...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Revamping California's parole requirements would ease prison overcrowding while providing ...
SANTA ANA - James B. Bear, the managing partner of Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear for nearly 30 years, has died. Bear suff...
Longtime Los Angeles attorney Thomas P. Laffey has left Folger, Levin & Kahn to become general counsel of rental car giant...
In her family law courtroom, Alameda Commissioner Elizabeth A. Hendrickson draws on her experience in her own practice and as ...
SAN FRANCISCO - When the San Francisco Bay Guardian's editor and publisher, Bruce B. Brugmann, took the stand Tuesday in his n...
Web Exclusive - The California Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared sympathetic to a biotech company's arguments for why it shoul...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has dismissed the shareholder class action filed against one of the nation's largest mortgage fi...
Focus Column - By Keith A. Meyer - Obtaining insurance coverage for the pursuit of a counterclaim often involves navigating co...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Prospecting in the Silver State: Nevada Offers Plenty of Opportunity
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Jeffrey S. Galvin and Craig S. Denney - For lawyers looking to shake up their practices, opportunities to p...
Environmental
U.S. Judge Overrules Bush Exemption; Navy Must Limit Its Sonar Use
By Zack Vaneyckn
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge slapped aside a Bush administration move to overrule her recent order limiting the U.S. Navy's s...