LOS ANGELES - The brand-new entity K&L Gates picked up a brand-new partner for its Los Angeles office, when Fred D. Heathe...
SAN FRANCISCO - A mandatory retirement policy forced Lawrence W. Keeshan out of his job at PriceWaterhouse Coopers Internation...
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who wears a "permanently surprised" expression after five plastic surgeries is not defaming her doctor...
Editor's Note: The United States is a nation of immigrants. More than one in four California residents came here from foreign ...
LOS ANGELES - Criminal-defense attorneys are crying foul as prosecutors in Los Angeles adjust their tactics to comply with las...
LOS ANGELES - Since launching their "safer cities" initiative in early August, Los Angeles police have made 4,800 arrests on S...
SANTA ANA - As a lawyer, Charles Margines spent 18 years defending criminal cases, both as a public defender and as a sole pra...
Trial Lawyers Group Names New President
LOS ANGELES - With his British-Jamaican accent and a preference for bow ties, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Spurgeon E. Smi...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral Follows Science to Heart of Mediation
By Anne Marie Ruff
Sometimes, Lynn Bassis finds too many amygdalas in the mediation room. ...
The high standards of law school admissions have led some would-be students to seek professional editing help with the persona...
FRESNO - David Gottlieb has been on the bench for less than two years, but he already has cleared a backlog of preliminary hea...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Barry Zalma - Before your clients get excited about bad-faith claims, you should make sure they did not give...
SAN FRANCISCO - Henry E. Needham was unanimously confirmed Thursday as a justice on the 1st District Court of Appeal, Division...
Judges and Judiciary
Senate Judiciary Panel Approves Three California-Based Judges
By Hurley
WASHINGTON - Three federal judicial nominees from California moved a step closer Thursday to confirmation by the U.S. Senate. ...
On Oct. 23, 1990, an Iranian-born academic and political dissident was gunned down outside his Paris apartment. ...
Disbarments, Resignations and Suspensions ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Philip A. Rafferty - No one disagrees that drunken driving is wrong, but California's jury instructions make...
Judges and Judiciary
Changes in Application Reflect Worries About Judicial Diversity
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Roughly a decade ago, McGeorge School of Law professor J. Clark Kelso heard stories of attorneys with judicial...
SAN FRANCISCO - A tort-reform organization Thursday asked the California State Bar to investigate a Novato law firm and one of...
State Bar & Bar Associations
S.F. Bar Group Calls for Ethics Probe of Stimson
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - An apology isn't good enough for the Bar Association of San Francisco. ...
The California Supreme Court made class-action lawyers' lives easier Thursday by allowing broader access to information about ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Roderick Walston - The 9th Circuit got it wrong when it reversed the EPA's approval of Arizona's application...
EMPLOYMENT - By Jonathan Fraser Light - 2006 saw little employment legislation but several court decisions that gave employees...
Judges and Judiciary
Maverick Federal Judge Seeks New Job Nabbing Bad Guys
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian, the unlikely candidate for U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, brings with him ...
Prosecutor Deserved More Severe Sanction
In the nation’s first class action to challenge overcrowding in facilities for immigration detainees, the American Civil Liber...
To hear the state's top trial lawyers tell it, these are hard times for plaintiffs in California. ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Betty R. Kazmin - Before civil libertarians get in too much of a huff over new federal regulations allowing ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Lothar Determann and Eugene Lim - American exporters should pay attention to rules the Chinese government ha...