Focus (Forum & Focus)
The Public Is Misguided About the Right to Bear Arms
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Roberto Javier Frisancho - The widely held belief that the Second Amendment was adopted to provide an indivi...
SANTA ANA - Orange County has settled a lawsuit growing out of the first killing in a county jail in 20 years. Left unexplain...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court just made it tougher for plaintiffs' attorneys to bring shareholder derivative la...
9th Curcuit Senior Judge John T. Noonan Jr. has accused the immigration courts of trying to shield adverse decisions in asylum...
WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives took a step closer to a constitutional showdown with the White House Thursday over t...
Large Firms
Congress Probes Deportation of Disabled U.S. Citizen
By Alexia Garamfalvin
Outrage over the deportation to Mexico last year of a developmentally disabled U.S. citizen from Los Angeles reached Washingto...
Judges and Judiciary
Joseph Tyree Sneed III 1920-2008: 9th Circuit Senior Judge Was Conservative Force on Bench
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Senior Judge Joseph Tyree Sneed III, who served on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals since President Nixon...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Good Works Will Restore Lawyers' Tarnished Reputations
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By K.C. Victor - Lawyers can help the profession reclaim its prestige by devoting themselves to good causes. ...
Focus Column - By William F. Sullivan, Peter M. Stone and D. Scott Carlton - A recent Supreme Court decision did away with 'sc...
Presiding over an isolated courthouse in Joshua Tree gives Judge Rod Cortez the opportunity to hear a wide variety of cases. ...
Public Interest
Tommy Breslin 1932-2007: Public Defender Known as Dedicated, Compassionate
By Zack Vaneyckn
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services are planned this spring following the death of veteran public defender Tommy Breslin. Breslin...
Forum Column - By Chris Hoffman - Employers should discourage their employees from having intimate relationships with co-worke...
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles-based talent management company Marathon Entertainment filed a petition Wednesday with the state Sup...
SANTA ANA - Attorneys for Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona and his wife let loose a double-barreled attack on the prosecution...
When actor Kirk Douglas applied to get his famous name trademarked 50 years after his storied career began, he just wanted to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Trying to right itself from an international stolen antiquities scandal and embarrassing governance shortcomin...
Morrison & Foerster's last corporate partner based in its Orange County office has moved to Bingham McCutchen. MoFo chairm...
SAN FRANCISCO - After a seven-year court battle over its effort to get cleaner-burning vehicle fleets on Southern California's...
Judges and Judiciary
In Rare Move, Attorney Runs for Two San Diego County Seats
By Pat Broderick
SAN DIEGO — A local lawyer has filed to run for two judicial seats, a rare political maneuver that is adding some color to th...
LOS ANGELES - Corporate attorney Jai Pathak, who helped develop Jones Day's India practice and headed its Singapore office, ha...
LOS ANGELES - After impassioned arguments on both sides, the American Bar Association has endorsed a pair of recommendations a...
Government
Senators From Both Parties Object to Disparity in Cocaine Sentencing
By Alexia Garamfalvin
WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of senators is stepping up efforts to reduce the 100-1 sentencing ratio between crack and powd...
LOS ANGELES - Indicted attorney Terry Christensen fired back at federal prosecutors in court papers Monday, claiming they stru...
SANTA ANA — Southern California’s first Vietnamese-born judge will be the only sitting Orange County judge facing an election ...
Before plaintiffs' lawyer William S. Lerach received a two-year prison sentence Monday, his lawyers compiled an impressive col...
Forum Column - By Jean Hardisty - The Bush administration’s marriage-promotion programs are based on false logic and harm the ...
Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - The issue of whether a party may be estopped from asserting mediation confidentiality ...
Judges and Judiciary
Most-Sought-After Riverside Seat Draws Four Candidates
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - Four candidates are challenging a Riverside County Superior Court judge for the county's most-sought-after judicia...
Intellectual Property
Former Executive Is Defiant in Patent Lawsuit
By Alexia Garamfalvin
SAN JOSE - A former Rambus Inc. executive who attended meetings of an organization that set standards for memory chips was def...
Administrative/Regulatory
Before He Can Sue the Government, Man Needs Rare Certificate
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - Richard Finley had a dream of opening 20 legal bookstores across the nation. Instead, at the age of 67, he went ...