Industry Watch - By Gabe Friedman - Bryan Daly, Marc Harris and Chuck Kreindler, name partners at the Beck De Corso firm, are ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Protection of Anonymous Free Speech: Good for Government, Bad for Media
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - Although the Constitution's protection of anonymous speech on the Internet is a necessary saf...
Focus Column - By Violet P. Woodhouse - Ending a marriage often comes down to matters of dollars and cents, which is why Calif...
Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - International financing lawyer Bill Grantham has joined Greenberg Traurig's corporate and s...
Law Practice
State's Trial Lawyers and Tort Reformers Duel to a Draw
By Linda Rapattoni And Hudson Sangree
For three years, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has pinned a bull's eye on California, aiming its tort reforms at the state's le...
Real Estate/Development
Dismissal of 14 Foreclosure Cases Raises Issue of Ownership
By Zack Vaneyckn
LOS ANGELES - A ruling by a federal judge in Ohio may complicate the ability of lenders to foreclose on troubled borrowers and...
An Islamic charity linked to al-Qaida can take United States spies to court, a federal appellate panel has ruled.
Verdicts
Mall Builder Wins $89 Million in Battle Over Rival's Tactics
By Peter Matuszakn
LOS ANGELES - Commercial developer Rick Caruso has won a combined $89 million verdict after jurors found a rival mall owner in...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Ruling on Common Objections to Form Interrogatories
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Richard M. Coleman - The "Musings of a Discovery Referee" series continues with another insight into a commo...
Home run king Barry Bonds was indicted Thursday on perjury and obstructing justice charges for testifying under oath that he n...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Lawyers on Front Lines of Pakistan's Freedom Fight
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By William H. Neukom - The attorneys jailed by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf are a reminder that justice...
Focus Column - By Daniel K. Slaughter - California has developed a convoluted jurisprudence about whether plaintiffs without s...
A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury on Thursday ordered Dole Food Co. to pay $2.5 million in punitive damages for exposin...
LOS ANGELES - Two women filed complaints with the U.S. Justice Department Thursday against Whole Foods Market and Target Corp....
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration set about reshaping the troubled Justice Department Thursday by announcing a series of hi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A man who has been on San Quentin's death row for three decades has lost his latest attempt to prove his innoc...
Employment Column - By John H. Douglas and Jean Kosela - The California Supreme Court's recent ruling in Gattuso v. Harte-H...
Forum Column - By Stanley S. Taylor and Bryan B. Barnhart - California has the nation's worst traffic, a problem that could be...
Gas-guzzlers hit a roadblock Thursday. In a major win for environmentalists, a federal appellate panel dissected and rejected ...
SAN DIEGO - For half a century, Gerald J. Lewis has been a member of San Diego's legal community, and he is one of a handful o...
Juan Romagoza Arce, right, and his attorney, Pamela Merchant, asked Congress Wednesday to see that El Salvador generals are pr...
Corporate
Splenda's 'Made From Sugar' Slogan Is Misleading, Suit Says
By Zack Vaneyckn
LOS ANGELES - Relations between sugar refiners and the maker of artificial sweetener Splenda are anything but sweet as the law...
SAN JOSE - A federal judge on Wednesday tossed out a novel securities class action filed against Apple Inc.'s officers and dir...
Forum Column - By John S. Vishneski III - As Southern California attempts to recover from October's wildfires, businesses, gov...
SANTA ANA - A dozen close friends of Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona and his wife likely will be prosecution witnesses again...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
As Admissions Season Approaches, Pre-Law Education Should Be Rethought
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Paul Von Blum - The educational hoops that most students jump through in order to earn admission to law scho...
Focus Column - By Mark F. Didak - A battle is raging in California's courts over whether a civil action for damages can be bro...
SACRAMENTO - California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced Wednesday he has chosen Heller Ehrman partner Adam M. C...
A team of attorneys, in partnership with UCSF, has been raising money to pay for a therapist to work with students at George W...
SAN FRANCISCO - When the California Supreme Court unexpectedly erased a multimillion-dollar case from its docket earlier this ...