Firm Watch
Busy Year of Wheeling and Dealing Puts Corporate Associates in Demand
By Emma Dewaldn
LOS ANGELES - Only five years ago, law firms turned away would-be transaction lawyers. But now, mid-level corporate associates...
FORUM COLUMN - By William M. Crosby - The business community has lamented both court decisions affirming employment-related cl...
SAN JOSE - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Freedman was so busy subbing for two judges and maintaining his own c...
The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether criminal defendants who miss the start of their own trials whi...
A Butte County judge was publicly admonished Wednesday for failing to disclose that his father loaned him $71,000 toward his 2...
Discipline
Bar May Make Resigning During Disciplinary Hearings Harder
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys facing discipline might soon find it tougher to resign their way out of trouble. ...
Intellectual Property
Blogger Sees Irony of Earning an IP Warning From YouTube
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - A popular Silicon Valley blogger says YouTube has threatened him with legal action for showing the Web site's ...
WASHINGTON - All of a sudden, California's Democratic senators are the go-to women on federal environmental and election law. ...
LOS ANGELES - President Bush nominated former Congressman James E. Rogan, who served as a "House prosecutor" during the impeac...
SACRAMENTO - A tenacious former supermarket clerk has played a key role in making the prison guards' union one of the most pow...
Environmental
Lawsuit Seeks Climate Change Report From Bush Administration
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - Against a stark backdrop of increasingly dire warnings about climate change, environmentalists Tuesday accused...
LOS ANGELES - This week brings big changes for former Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Kamenstein, who joined McDermott Will &...
SANTA ANA - If all goes very well this week, UC Irvine will be in the market for a top-flight law school dean as early as next...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Sentencing Commission has launched its latest campaign to convince Congress that lowly crack cocaine dea...
Judges and Judiciary
Court Needs to Follow Its Own Rule of Not Relying on Legislative History
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Dylan B. Carp - A key part of the California Supreme Court's job is to interpret California statutes. ...
Investments
A Few Signs Can Point a Sleuth to Fraud in Financial Statements
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Stanley I. Foodman - When reviewing a financial statement, how do you know if the numbers it contains are tr...
Litigation
New E-Discovery Rules Mean Lawyers Must Learn the Language of Technology
By Rebecca Beyer
LOS ANGELES - When it comes to discovery and the need to produce electronic data for an opposing party in litigation, the excu...
FOCUS COLUMN - Daniel Ellis and Ute Krudewagen - Outsourcing is on the rise. ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral in L.A. Was First Monterey Judge
By Anne Marie Ruff
Monterey County's first judge, Ralph Drummond, has died at 88. Drummond began and ended his career in Los Angeles, first as a...
Government
Election Gives Locals Bigger Role in Picking U.S. Attorney
By Carri Karuhnn
LOS ANGELES - Before last week's midterm elections, conservative attorneys with ties to the Bush administration were believed ...
HAYWARD - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Michael Gaffey enjoys engaging those who come before him in conversation, especi...
SAN FRANCISCO - The day after 70 percent of voters approved Jessica's Law, the proposition requiring 2,000-foot Predator-Free ...
FORUM COLUMN - By John Stephens and Caroline Bussin - In a March 15 omnibus decision, the Federal Communications Commission fu...
SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera and attorneys representing same-sex couples asked the California Supreme Court Mo...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert L. Eisenbach III - The major role intellectual property plays in our economy makes intellectual prope...
Judges and Judiciary
Jury Questioners Draw Rebuke in Market Manslaughter Case
By Carri Karuhnn
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys representing convicted farmers' market killer George Weller were issued a strong rebuke by a judge Mon...
SAN JOSE - The chief legal officer at Los Angeles-based KB Home resigned Sunday along with the homebuilding company's chief ex...
Appellate Practice
WEB EXCLUSIVE - Appeals Panel Lets S.F. Police Proceed With 'Fajitagate' Discipline
By Laura Ernden
Disciplinary charges against seven San Francisco police officers stemming from "Fajitagate," a notorious off-duty brawl with c...
Corporate
In Its First Acquisition, Genentech Buys Out Texas Partner Tanox
By Rick Kennedyn
COLUMN - By Rick Kennedy - Last week began with a deluge of deals, even by the standards of this year's sustained bonanza: At ...
Judges and Judiciary
Transfer of Complex-Litigation Judge Provokes S.F. Bench, Bar
By Dennis Opatrnyn
SAN FRANCISCO - Even before he formally slides into the presiding judge's chair in January, San Francisco County Superior Cour...