SAN JOSE - Until this year, no company that insured officers and directors of American corporations asked anything about stock...
Employee Benefits
Veteran Baseball Arbitrator Steps Up to Grocery-Strike Plate
By Carri Karuhnn
LOS ANGELES - Veteran arbitrator Thomas T. Roberts is a star in labor and legal circles, best known for his high-profile, high...
SAN FRANCISCO - His mother was a high school dropout. His father was an alcoholic who didn't make it past the third grade. ...
WASHINGTON - A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reinstated the death sentence for a murder committed 24 years ago ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Winning habeas appeals for imprisoned clients is only the start for sole practitioner Gary Dubcoff. ...
Property insurers took a blow from the state Supreme Court Monday after the court held that insurance companies cannot get out...
LOS ANGELES - If only his college newspaper had been less successful, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge C. Edward Simpson might...
IMPERIAL COUNTY -- The Trust for Public Land, California State Parks and numerous other state and federal partners announced N...
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County policy has come under fire in lawsuits from two criminal defense lawyers who allege jail person...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Bradley D. Blanche - Your client has developed proprietary advances in technology and has the capability to ...
Labor/Employment
New Case and Regulations Beef Up Employer Duties to Returning Troops
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Michael S. Kalt - The Department of Labor's long-awaited regulations implementing and clarifying the Uniform...
FORUM COLUMN - By Robert E. Adel - We've all been there: avoidable discovery disputes; ex parte applications for extensions th...
Labor/Employment
Employment Partner Finds Fit in Davis Wright's Rate Structure
By Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Labor and employment partner Frank Birchfield found Davis Wright Tremaine's willingness to explore creative co...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR - Regarding Howard Privette's "Sentencing Guidelines Encourage Draconian Punishments for Securities Fraud...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jeffrey W. Shopoff, name partner of San Francisco civil litigation boutique Shopoff & Cavallo, set off to ...
Firm Watch
Principals of Fox & Sohagi Will Close Firm, Go Separate Ways
By Emma Dewaldn
LOS ANGELES - For nearly two decades, Deborah Fox and Margaret Sohagi have worked together in the firm Fox & Sohagi. ...
Intellectual Property
Rival Attorneys Get Stoked for 'Surf City' IP Battle
By Laura Ernden
SAN FRANCISCO - What began as a lively debate between two beach towns claiming bragging rights to the title Surf City USA has ...
Litigation
Comcast Thwarts Patent Suit in Plaintiff-Friendly Texas Venue
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - A patent infringement claim against Comcast Cable Corp. has gone in favor of the defendants in spite of being ...
Intellectual Property
Copyright Office Ruling on Ringtones Gives Songwriters Static
By Andrew Harmon
LOS ANGELES - It used to be simple. Take a recognizable ditty - "Guantanamera," perhaps, or "Camptown Races" - synthesize the ...
LOS ANGELES - So what is the value of having one of the Enron prosecutors or a U.S. attorney in an office down the hall? ...
Richard Zelichov joined Katten Muchin Rosenman as partner in the firm's Los Angeles office.
LOS ANGELES - His military haircut may have just been enough to get Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge C.H. Rehm noticed ...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Carol Overton spent a large part of her legal career battling street gangs ...
IRVINE - Sometimes, when a Muslim in Southern California contacts the Council on American Islamic Relations with a business, i...