Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - LOS ANGELES - Perkins Coie's Los Angeles office has added complex commercial litigator Dona...
Forum Column - By John H. Sullivan - The rant from the plaintiffs' bar about the latest bad news on the fairness and reasonabl...
Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - We may never know who murdered Biggie or Tupac, but it looks like one front in...
Judges and Judiciary
Civil-Liberties Attorney Was Union and Democrat Activist
By Sarah Mcclure
A memorial service will take place May 20 at Paso Robles City Hall for attorney Paul M. Posner, a key figure in the state's un...
Focus Column - By Bernard S. Kamine - A legislative change and an appellate opinion together mean the changed-conditions claus...
Industry Watch - By Bobbi Murray - LOS ANGELES - Veteran construction litigator Stuart J. Einbinder has joined the commercial ...
In what may be the first of many claims against the Los Angeles Police Department stemming from the May 1 immigration rally, a...
After months of legal wrangling, the Securities and Exchange Commission has invoked a rarely used power and filed a subpoena e...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Suit Can Use RICO Against Marketing Ploy
By Amelia Hansenn
A federal appeals court Friday reinstated a class action against Microsoft and Best Buy, saying the case could go forward unde...
On the Move
Letter to the Editor - I am offended not so much by John C. Eastman's anti-abortion article on April 30 as by the Daily Journa...
Judge Irma Brown wants to see kids succeed and has a deep knowledge of community resources for helping the juveniles in her co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Four years after a prison inmate was beaten unconscious by gang members, his attorneys have negotiated a $210...
Attorney Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. helped found a free legal clinic at Los Angeles’ Brookins Community African Methodist Episcopa...
Law Practice
No Feud With District Attorney, Riverside County Judge Insists
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County Superior Court judge insisted Thursday that he is not locked in a feud with the county's distri...
David Rosenzweig, a longtime editor and federal courts reporter for the Los Angeles Times, died of cancer Wednesday at his San...
SACRAMENTO - A former state education worker has won a $7.6 million jury award for injuries suffered when his bosses retaliate...
Forum Column – by Alex Landon – For the past quarter-century, California has been building more prisons to house ever more pri...
Focus Column – By H. Scott Leviant - In Pioneer Electronics, the California Supreme Court reaffirmed and strengthened i...
Law Practice
Court Rewards Attorney's 'Extraordinary Efforts' for Stingy Client
By Laura Ernden
Web Exclusive - An attorney stiffed by an ungrateful client finally gets a payday for his "extraordinary efforts," courtesy of...
SAN FRANCISCO - V. Gene McDonald has been a neutral at JAMS for 10 years, but his career as a professional case-settler didn't...
Forum Column – By Donald Kilmer - As long as those advocating “common-sense” gun control are perceived as the same people poun...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Employers Must Comply With State Laws on Meal Breaks, Rest Periods
By Don Debenedictisn
Employment Column – By D. Gregory Valenza - Employers must schedule meal periods and rest breaks with care. The Supreme Court’...
LOS ANGELES - A U.S. district judge has told prosecutors to reconsider their decision to seek the death penalty in a murder-an...
Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey, second in command to Alberto Gonzales, told lawmakers that, before he left office ...
California workers hurt on the job lost their bid for bigger compensation awards Thursday, as the state Supreme Court handed a...
Disbarments, resignations and suspensions.
District Attorney Steve Cooley celebrated his 60th birthday this week by hosting a $500,000 birthday dinner for his re-electio...
Congress last year suspended habeas corpus rights for suspected terrorists detainted at Guantanamo Bay. Now that the U.S. Su...
LOS ANGELES - Vanderbilt University law professor Robert K. Rasmussen has been named dean of USC's Gould School of Law, ending...