SACRAMENTO - A nonprofit child advocacy group proposed Tuesday that the state contribute more financial assistance to help fos...
FORUM COLUMN - By Mark Harrington - Who knew there were so many ways to aggravate in-house lawyers? The general counsel of Gui...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys who have appeared before veteran Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Brett C. Klein have decidedly...
Sylvia Resnick considers herself "a pretty peppy person," despite her senior-citizen status. So it took a serious back spasm f...
LOS ANGELES - Miriam A. Vogel grew up under a billboard. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - International litigation firm Howrey kicked off 2007 by adding six attorneys to four of its offices, including...
WASHINGTON - For the third time this term, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circu...
SAN JOSE - A Colorado man's guilty plea to federal conspiracy and aggravated identity-theft charges in the Hewlett-Packard spy...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert L. Eisenbach III - What if you ship goods to a company that goes bankrupt? Some recent legal developm...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Federal Judge Will Rule on Constitutionality of Anti-Abortion Amendment
By Amelia Hansenn
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge is set to rule on the constitutionality of a controversial provision that forbids state and lo...
LOS ANGELES - Change is never easy. But for a group of former panel attorneys in Los Angeles County's dependency courts, being...
FORUM COLUMN - By Richard M. Mosk - One of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants was a prominent judge in Iraq. Appellate-court Justi...
LOS ANGELES - Saying that Joshua Mogin brings expertise in an area of law the firm is "sorely underrepresented on the West Coa...
LOS ANGELES - A week after receiving permission to represent himself against charges of racketeering and wiretapping, onetime ...
SACRAMENTO - Newly sworn Attorney General Jerry Brown has named David Chaney as his chief assistant attorney general in charge...
LOS ANGELES - An old college friend opened the door for intellectual property lawyer Allan Jansen to jump from Jones Day to Gr...
Santa Clara County officials were wrong to threaten a deputy public defender with insubordination if he didn't fess up about m...
LOS ANGELES - By focusing too much on abstract legal analysis and not enough on the practicalities and consequences of practic...
The Orange County Superior Court judges have elected Edward W. Hall a commissioner.
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith elevated 11 attorneys to partner in the firm's California offices.
WALNUT CREEK - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Bruce Clayton Mills launched a courtroom rant that made lawyers wince ...
Law Practice
Workers' Compensation Lawyer Was a Self-Taught Electrician
By Amanda Becker
Longtime workers' compensation lawyer and trial attorney Sheldon H. Penn died on Dec. 28 after a brief illness, from iatrogeni...
COLUMN - By Peter Blumberg - San Francisco jurors may be skeptical of law enforcement, but they're no fools. ...
LOS ANGELES - When top Hollywood talent attorney Barry L. Hirsch left the firm he helped found, he took a few partners and man...
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EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Scott N. Yamaguchi - If a settlement agreement isn't written correctly, the case may never go away. An ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. - Who doesn't want to be famous? A lawyer who's looking out for the client, that's wh...
Mobile-home tenants got slapped with taxes Thursday after the California Supreme Court unanimously held that mobile-home park ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Lara Giese and David Perrott - Voir dire is far more than just a chat with potential jurors. Two trial consu...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Fields Juggles Family Life, Mediation Duties
By Emma Dewaldn
LOS ANGELES - Janet Rubin Fields leans across the table. She is a woman in the grip of strong emotion. ...