MARYSVILLE - Talking by phone through the wire-mesh glass window in the Yuba County jail, a surprisingly amiable Nigerian woma...
FORUM COLUMN - By Christian Abasto - The Los Angeles Unified School District is destroying the housing of hundreds of low-inco...
Judges and Judiciary
Murder Defendant Files to Block Movie About His Case
By Carri Karuhnn
A defense attorney for an alleged killer filed an injunction Friday against a major motion-picture studio in an effort to bloc...
LOS ANGELES - The expansion of Steptoe & Johnson's Century City office continued apace last week with the addition of a qu...
Public Interest
Article on the Work of ACLU in San Diego and Imperial Counties Draws Criticism
By Eric Berkowitzn
Regarding "In San Diego, New Boss Emboldens the ACLU" (LADJ Oct. 10), your article was too kind to me. Far too kind ... to the...
SAN FRANCISCO - Davis Wright Tremaine's bankruptcy and creditors' rights practice scored a boost this month with the San Franc...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 960 square feet behind a blank door six floors above Sansome Street has all the characteristics of a start...
Judges and Judiciary
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Federal Appeals Court Lets Prosecutors Protect Witnesses' Names
By Dennis Opatrnyn
In a victory for the San Francisco U.S. Attorney's office in a gang murder case, a federal appeals court on Friday ruled that ...
Appellate Practice
Panel Revives Suit by Man Claiming Harassing Search
By Laura Ernden
A state appellate panel has revived a civil rights suit against Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies who allegedly forced a 6...
LOS ANGELES - The pending split within Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has claimed its first casualty with the defection ...
Employee Benefits
Trial Starts Over Legality of San Diego City Employees' Retirement Benefits
By Jim Adamekn
SAN DIEGO - Since he became San Diego's city attorney two years ago, Mike Aguirre has been saying that retirement benefits for...
Law Practice
Don't Fly the Law-Firm Nest Without Thorough Preparation
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Michael M. Amir - Of course you've thought about it. Every law firm associate I know has thought about it. ...
LOS ANGELES - On a recent evening, 12 men sat around tables in a room on the second floor of a refurbished Hollywood bungalow ...
LOS ANGELES - The mob had two favorite spots on the night of October 24, 1871, in the small pueblo called Los Angeles. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Firm leaders of Minneapolis-based Dorsey & Whitney are due to arrive in the Bay Area today to discuss scut...
Judges and Judiciary
Court Will Hear International Patent Case Against Microsoft
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - In a case that could have considerable ramifications for the software industry, the U.S. Supreme Court announced ...
SACRAMENTO - For 30 years, plaintiff lawyers have tried to chip away at California's limits on non-economic damages in medica...
SIMI VALLEY - Ventura County Superior Court Judge William Q. Liebmann became a lawyer because he wanted to help people solve t...
The Santa Clara County Bar Association has elected Thomas Kuhnle president-elect for the 2008 term. Kuhnle is a partner at Bin...
LOS ANGELES - This time last year, Douglas Sortino was busy trying to convince a Los Angeles judge to allow prosecutors to pre...
LOS ANGELES - Just three days after Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Donald S. Kennedy's recent transfer to the ...
WASHINGTON - Criminal defendants enjoyed a banner year in 2004 when the Supreme Court handed down a pair of landmark criminal-...
COLUMN - By Peter Blumberg - Judge politics may be the last thing on Jerry Brown's mind as he contemplates the next four years...
FORUM COLUMN - By John McMickle - One year ago, America's bankruptcy laws changed, altering the legal landscape for consumers,...
LOS ANGELES - Working as a defense attorney 21 years ago, Los Angeles County Superior Court Supervising Judge David S. Wesley ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Howard M. Ehrenberg - Last spring, Congress passed and the president signed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention ...
Labor/Employment
'Romaneck' Undermines Congressional Intent in Passing Sarbanes-Oxley
By Eric Berkowitzn
EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Dawn M. Irizarry -The United States District Court for the Northern District o...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral Serves Up Food, Savvy to Settle Disputes
By Craig Anderson
WALNUT CREEK - Malcom Sher, an independent mediator and arbitrator, says he always serves good food to the litigants and their...
Government
Untangling a Decade of Dilution Cases, Just in Time for Revisions
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert E. Lyon - On Oct. 6, President Bush signed the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006. ...
SAN JOSE - Derivative complaints against company officers are often afterthoughts to the main event in shareholders' litigatio...