Focus Column - By Steven B. Stokdyk - This is the only guide that outside counsel will ever need for answering the questions o...
Government
IRS Turns to Internal Probes When Looking for Tax Violations
By Dennis Pfaffn
Attorneys representing corporate clients are trying to figure out how best to protect them from a newly aggressive IRS policy ...
WASHINGTON - Twelve years after O.J. Simpson's acquittal on murder charges sparked new racial divisions around the nation, its...
In the latest move to expand its presence in the Bay Area, Los Angeles-based Manatt, Phelps & Phillips will acquire Steefe...
Industry Watch - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's la...
In early 2008, Alex Kozinski will confront a turf threat from the U.S. Judicial Conference that would move some claims against...
Corporate
Consumer Advocates Object to Ford Explorer Settlement Offer
By Linda Rapattoni
Consumer advocates Thursday said they would try to block a proposed class-action settlement that would give owners of 1 millio...
Forum Column - By Michael Dever and Bryan Sinclair - An upcoming Supreme Court ruling may alter the royalties that inventors c...
The family of a Los Angeles woman who died in a commercial plane crash three years ago in Missouri has settled a wrongful-deat...
Judges and Judiciary
Scholar, Attorney Changed Land-Use, Redevelopment Law in California
By Peter Matuszakn
Eugene Brown Jacobs Jr., a legendary attorney who changed the face of California's land use and redevelopment law, died Nov. 2...
Arbitrator Ann Kough is willing to sidestep certain formalities if there's a cheaper and easier way to get something done. ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Advances in Employment Nondiscrimination Ignore Transgendered
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Diane J. Klein - New federal anti-discrimination legislation moving through Congress is creating a rift amon...
Judges and Judiciary
Second-Career Lawyer and Family Man Shared a Practice With His Daughter
By Martin Bergn
Services will take place on Monday for William A. Fazio, a second-career lawyer who practiced for more than 40 years in La Hab...
Employment Column - By Leonid M. Zilberman - Three years ago, a California Supreme Court ruling led employers to believe that ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Panel Reverses Defense Win in Shareholder Suit
By Zack Vaneyckn
A federal appellate panel this week reversed the defense victory from a long-forgotten bench trial in the shareholder class ac...
Construction
L.A. Judge Halts Demolition of Remaining Ambassador Site
By Peter Matuszakn
A judge's order on Thursday stopping the demolition of the Coconut Grove nightclub was the latest ruling in a long battle betw...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court Cites Sloppy Writing in Dismissal
By John Roemer
Language police on a federal appellate court Thursday blue-penciled, shredded and booted a Hawaii lawyer's brief for crimes ag...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Scholars in multiple disciplines, including Stanford Law professor Hank Greely, are working on a three-year $10 million grant ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has ordered intelligence officials to release documents that could influence the debate in Con...
LOS ANGELES - Mark L. Bronson, a California lawyer who brokered some of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's biggest rea...
Web Exclusive - For the first time, a California Court of Appeal has ordered a law enforcement agency to return marijuana that...
Focus Column - By Margaret Grignon and Zareh Jaltorossian - A recent decision of the 6th District Court of Appeal reignites th...
LOS ANGELES - Chris Poole has been named the new president of Irvine-based JAMS, one of the nation's largest private providers...
LOS ANGELES - Reversing an earlier tentative ruling, the federal judge handling the wrongful-death lawsuit against the city of...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Plea Bargaining in Capital Cases Is More Than Just a 'Necessary Evil'
By Troy Senikn
Letters to the Editor - Readers weigh in on the death penalty, licensing talent agents and the efficacy of mediation. ...
Law Practice
Russoniello Plans Case-by-Case Approach This Time Around
By Dennis Pfaffn
Now that Joe Russoniello is poised to take over as Northern California's U.S. attorney for a second time, some legal observers...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Supreme Court Wary of Maine Law Aimed at Tobacco Control
By David Houstonn
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it likely will rule against a Maine law aimed at preventing minors from...
WASHINGTON - Earlier this year, supporters of the major patent reform legislation before Congress were confidently talking abo...
Personal Injury & Torts
Injured Joggers Will Receive Record $50 Million Settlement
By Jim Adamekn
In what may be the biggest settlement of a personal-injury case in the state this year, the city of Dana Point announced Tuesd...