Focus Column - Laurie L. Levenson - Understanding the procedural differences between federal and state grand juries is an esse...
Forum Column - Todd Gordinier - A single case coming before the Supreme Court in its next term will have huge implications for...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld California's ban on the importation of products made with kangar...
Transactions
Hot Properties: Internet Companies Buy Their Own Security Firms
By Jason Songn
Deals Column - By Jason Song - Looking for the next big M&A trend? It might be in the quickly growing Internet security bu...
One of the lead attorneys in a nationwide lawsuit filed Monday accusing the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs of mistreating...
SAN BERNARDINO - In a highly unusual move, the State Bar announced Monday that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in May appointed a S...
Litigation
Brocade Defense Wraps Up Without Calling Sonsini as Witness
By Craig Anderson
SAN FRANCISCO - The defense lawyer for Brocade Communications Systems Inc.'s former chief executive officer, Gregory Reyes, ca...
SAN DIEGO - Jan Mark Adler grew up in a small town nestled in the Catskill Mountains in New York, where his family owned and o...
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer who claimed his better judgment was impaired by a hypoglycemic attack was found not guilty of attemptin...
Web Exclusive - Rumors swirled the past week that real estate and land-use transactional partners Robin B. Kennedy and Michael...
Under both the United States Constitution and California law, indigent defendants in California are entitled to legal represen...
Focus Column - By Michael P. Judge - Public defenders perform an invaluable service for poor communities. For MCLE credit. ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
State's Courts Need Diverse Judiciary to Ensure Justice, Reflect Community
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - Mike Davis - With black and Hispanic prison populations swelling, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger needs to appoint m...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Seyfarth Shaw last week added labor and employment litigator Jeffrey Wortman, formerly of...
Industry Watch - Alexa Hyland - LOS ANGELES - California-based Buchalter Nemer continues to strengthen its appellate practice ...
Forum Column - Donald Kilmer - The hysteria over gun violence ignores statistical realities. ...
LOS ANGELES - Throughout his 50 years as a prominent divorce lawyer, Harry M. Fain was know for reinventing the practice of fa...
Lobbyists from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips have been walking the hallways of the state Capitol, drumming up support for tort...
WASHINGTON - The long-running federal corruption investigation focusing on U.S. Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Cal., has stalled. ...
SANTA MONICA - Jeffrey L. Bleich, a San Francisco partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson, will be the new president of the Stat...
On the Move
Whether she's competing on the track, winning political office or rising in law, Judge Karen L. Robinson has her eyes on the n...
The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley propelled Joel Pressman into a legal career, and as a judge he says he is 'doing his best...
Howard Rice partner Julia Vax has developed a keen understanding of risk through her general business, corporate and securitie...
Simply claiming your seat belt is uncomfortable doesn't mean you can win a lawsuit. ...
SANTA ANA - In a strongly worded opinion, a federal appellate court on Thursday castigated the U.S. Department of Veterans Aff...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Trend Reversal: Disabled Workers Are No Longer Immune From Discipline
By Troy Senikn
Employment Column - By Leonid M. Zilberman - The tide of litigation that came in with the passage of the Americans with Disabi...
SAN FRANCISCO - The first criminal stock-option backdating trial in the country appears headed for a jury as soon as next week...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - The Supreme Court attempts to sort out the wreckage when the Endangered Species Act and the...
LOS ANGELES - Dole Food and Dow Chemical continued to use and sell a pesticide that executives in both companies knew caused h...