Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation of Patent Disputes Offers More Options Than Litigation Does
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Karen Boyd - Mediation is often seen as best-suited for "soft," "emotional" disputes - family law, landlord-...
RIVERSIDE - The chief of the U.S. attorney's Riverside office has been appointed a magistrate judge by U.S. District Court jud...
LOS ANGELES - Funeral arrangements are pending for Grace C. Quinn, co-founder of the Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center, one...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists have suffered a major setback in their attempt to use the state's once-powerful Unfair Compe...
SANTA ROSA - A quiet prosecutor is like a shy actor. You don't find them very often, but when you do they may surprise you wit...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge accepted a plea agreement Monday in the criminal case against Ralphs Grocery Co. for illegal act...
SAN JOSE - Compared with other companies caught up in backdating investigations, UnitedHealth Group Inc. took a much more open...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Counsel Raymond G. Fortner Jr. unexpectedly fired the county's litigation cost manager withou...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jon Eisenberg is not that liberal, he swears. ...
Intellectual Property
North vs. South in IP Skirmish Over 'Surf City' Bragging Rights
By Anna Oberthurn
Where is Surf City, USA? ...
LOS ANGELES - The last lawyer left in White & Case's California energy group has rejoined his colleagues at Winston & ...
Civil Rights
Longtime Rights Fighter Takes Her Pluck to ACLU's National Office
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - When Dorothy Ehrlich arrived at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California 34 years ago, an unp...
FORUM COLUMN - By Laurie L. Levenson - There have been many calls for the criminal justice system to become more creative in d...
Criminal
Court of Appeal's Ruling Narrows Patient's 'Zone of Privacy'
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Leila Narvid - Patient-litigants may soon find themselves having to disclose far more medical information th...
Government
Employers May Be Liable if Driving Workers Hold Cell Phones
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert S. Nelson - On Sept. 15, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation that will make California the ...
LOS ANGELES - One guy's a spender, the other a saver. One enjoys a whirlwind of client lunches and wears corduroy blazers with...
SAN FRANCISCO - Looking to grow its pharmaceutical practice in San Francisco, Shook, Hardy & Bacon has hired Amor A. Esteb...
SAN FRANCISCO - Diane Abrams is an intern at the San Francisco Sheriff's Department Women's Reentry Center, a program that pro...
Judges and Judiciary
Palm Springs Man Is Charged in Killing of Ex-State Bar Chief
By Susan Mcraen
INDIO - Riverside County prosecutors have charged a Palm Springs man with murder and grand theft in the death last month of fo...
LOS ANGELES - Rafael Morga still remembers the shock he felt when he and fellow employees at a Ralphs grocery store in Chino w...
Judges and Judiciary
Key Witness in Oil Case Says He's Regularly Visited by Aliens
By Carri Karuhnn
LOS ANGELES - Extraterrestrials have replaced Michael Jackson as the latest oddity afflicting the Santa Barbara County distric...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled Salvadorans caught at the border must be informed of their right to app...
LOS ANGELES - Trial lawyer Michael J. Proctor received a nod of respect from his partners today with the elevation of his nam...
Initially wary of law school, Sandra Snyder has found that her career has gotten better with each advancement and considers he...
SAN MATEO - San Mateo County Superior Court Commissioner Stephanie Garratt has become, quite reluctantly, a minor Internet cel...
SAN FRANCISCO - A legal showdown is looming for San Francisco's troubled Housing Authority after federal housing officials ref...
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego County Superior Court jury has awarded $250,000 in punitive damages to a Starbucks employee who said h...
Government
Independence of Valuation Experts Is Crucial in Chapter 11s
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By David S. Kupetz - Valuation disputes are frequently at the core of contested Chapter 11 reorganization plans...
FORUM COLUMN - By Alison Berry Wilkinson - The question in the dispute over whether the donning and doffing of safety gear is ...
Labor/Employment
Police Departments Should Not Pay for Getting Dressed
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Kathy E. Mount - In IBP Inc. v. Alvarez, (2005) 126 S.Ct. 514, the United States Supreme Court interpreted t...