Two years ago, jury trials were a rarity in Chino. Nowadays, the courthouse is the setting for one trial after another - thank...
Yahoo Inc. settled a federal lawsuit with two jailed Chinese journalists Tuesday in a deal that sets no legal precedent but co...
SANTA ANA - Prominent white-collar defense lawyer Brian A. Sun is joining the defense team for indicted Orange County Sheriff ...
Focus Column - By C. Matthew Schulz and Ute Krudewagen -Recent government crackdowns on the employment of illegal immigrants m...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council has granted a waiver of conflicts to Latham & Watkins, clearing the way for the...
LOS ANGELES - Longtime Heller Ehrman partner Nancy Sher Cohen has stepped in as the firm's Los Angeles managing partner. The a...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Uncertainty About New Patent Rules Risks Damaging American Business
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Michael Fuller - Although the recent delay in implementing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's new rules ...
Curtis L. Child, principal consultant to the state Assembly Committee on Human Services, will take over in December as directo...
WASHINGTON - Lawyers are predicting extensive litigation across the nation if the U.S. Sentencing Commission decides to apply ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Reinstates Case of Wrongly Penalized Immigrant
By Sandra Hernandezn
A federal appeals court has ordered an immigration judge to reopen the case of a Mexican woman whose petition to stay in the U...
LOS ANGELES - With the specter of an impending appeal looming over the proceedings, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ...
Another month, another slapdown of Los Angeles federal Judge Manuel L. Real by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. ...
Can the circuit save the whales? Acting swiftly to protect marine mammals after hearing oral arguments last week, the 9th U.S....
Forum Column - By Kent Scheidegger - An upcoming Supreme Court case should make clear that having a slightly below-par attorne...
LOS ANGELES - Beck DeCorso Daly Kreindler & Harris, one of the last premier white-collar criminal-law boutique firms in do...
Civil Rights
Skid Row Crackdown Creates 'Debtor's Prison,' Lawsuit Says
By Anat Rubinn
LOS ANGELES - Civil rights attorneys have launched a broad legal attack on the city's Skid Row crackdown, saying that tactics ...
David W. Long books six settlement conferences a day. After eight years as supervising civil judge of the Ventura County Supe...
Maurice "Mo" Jourdane, one of the California Rural Legal Assistance lawyers who got the notorious short-handled hoe banned fro...
Focus Column - By Martin L. Pitha and Kathryn Ann Visosky - When your co-defendant remains party to a case after coming to a s...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Verdict Against Ford in SUV Rollover Case Not the Injustice Automaker Claims
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Louis G. Arnell - Though it's been portrayed as a matter of evidence admissibility, the verdict finding Ford...
Two Bay Area lawyers with a side patent business will get $7.5 million following a settlement they reached with the educationa...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury has paved the road to punitive damages against Dole Food Co. in the cas...
Commissioner Kenneth J. Fernandez's courtroom is filled with stuffed animals and candy - it's all an effort to make the child...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Immigration
Nary a Lawsuit Slows Start of S.F.'s Trans-Bay Cable Project
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - If someone were to propose cutting a 6-foot-deep trench for 50 miles through the mud under one of the most env...
Focus Column - By Ken Moscaret - When attempting to obtain attorney fees at trial, lawyers should remember that the reputation...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Should Sports Receive Special Treatment When It Comes to Liability Issues?
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Michael Willemsen - Should the physical extremes routinely endured by athletes be subject to unique treatmen...
Firm Watch
Probate Partner Balances His Law Practice, Military Duty
By Devan Mcclainen
Industry Watch - By Devan McClaine - Nick Tooliatos gives new meaning to work/life balance. ...
Forum Column - By Richard Brent Reed - On Veterans Day, a columnist looks at a recent attack on the right to have a traditiona...
SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service will be held Nov. 29 for Peter Belton, a former senior staff attorney and influential force...