True story. On the day Randy Rhodes got married, he was wearing a white polo shirt and a pair of jeans stained with fish guts....
LOS ANGELES - After 35 years of waging battles in the name of civil rights and social justice, the Center for Law in the Publi...
FORUM COLUMN - In April 2004, administrators at the Poway Public High School permitted the Gay-Straight Alliance student club ...
Judges and Judiciary
Maybe Lawyers Ought to Grade Judges on Quality of Their Judging
By Eric Berkowitzn
Professor Cohen's Sept. 19 article suggesting that judges grade lawyers ("Judges Ought to Grade Lawyers on the Quality of Thei...
LOS ANGELES - A congressional committee examining Hewlett-Packard's controversial investigation of boardroom leaks subpoenaed ...
The state can't just carve wildlife habitat out of farmland without first studying the project, especially if some of the crit...
Judges and Judiciary
New Law Helps Transfer Court Facilities to State
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation Monday to speed up the transfer of county court facilities to th...
Technology & Science
Midmarket Banking Steps in Where Dot-coms Declined to Tread
By Rick Kennedyn
COLUMN - Big things seemed to be afoot last week for dot-com companies. ...
LOS ANGELES - The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday that it would pursue an enforcement action against Los A...
Education
Loyola Selects Two Trial Attorneys to Honor as Champions of Justice
By Rebecca Beyer
LOS ANGELES - Two top Los Angeles attorneys will be honored Friday night at Loyola Law School's second annual Tribute to Champ...
Civil Rights
To Foster Equality at Schools, Some Speech Must Have Limits
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - In the spring of 2004, Tyler Chase Harper arrived at his San Diego-area school on two consecutive days wearing ...
Constitutional Law
Compelling Interest Needed to Deny Permits to Build Temples
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently handed down a significant victory for religious freedom advocate...
Government
WEB EXCLUSIVE - Judge Appears Ready to OK Teens' Sex Suit Against Marines
By Alexa Hylandn
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge seemed poised Monday to rule that two teenagers may press forward with a civil suit against th...
Litigation
Church Contends Priests Don't Work for Cardinal Mahony or the Diocese
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - When lawyers for Cardinal Roger Mahony confirmed this month the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles is pay...
WASHINGTON - The right to habeas corpus took center stage Monday as senators continued to poke holes in legislation that would...
Judges and Judiciary
Jury Acquits Phone Company Employee in Pellicano Case
By David Houstonn
LOS ANGELES - In a major blow to prosecutors in the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping case, a federal jury in Los Angeles acquitte...
SAN FRANCISCO - Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox has appointed longtime San Francisco attorney Mich...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Fresno has refused to block key parts of an automobile industry challenge to California's g...
PALO ALTO - Hewlett-Packard on Friday introduced two lawyers hired to help navigate its spying scandal - a corporate specialis...
State Bar & Bar Associations
New WLALA Chief Proves 'You Really Can Have It All'
By Anne M Arie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - Jennifer Landau is a female success story. She is a big-firm partner with a busy litigation practice, a wife, t...
Judges and Judiciary
Gov. Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Granting State 50 New Trial Judges Next Year
By Jason Armstrongn
SACRAMENTO - A six-year effort by the judiciary to get more judges to address the needs of the state's growing population has ...
FOCUS COLUMN - Automobile manufacturers are facing a new type of liability, in the form of government lawsuits seeking to forc...
The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether the Talent Agencies Act applies to personal manage...
Judges and Judiciary
Kozinski Flap Over Death Row Inmate Forgotten in Talk of Judicial Ethics
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - Misconduct by federal judges got a lot of attention last week from both Congress and the judiciary itself. ...
Media
A Few Tricks of the Media Trade Can Help When News Reporters Call
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - Conjure this: You're suddenly involved in a complicated and controversial legal case and one morning your secre...
Firm Watch
New Partner in Charge of Perkins Coie's Spacious San Francisco Quarters
By Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie rotated in a new San Francisco office managing partner who will oversee the growth and recruiting...
FORUM COLUMN - Civil rights cases often raise historical questions. But, as Justice Anthony Kennedy observed, lawyers and judg...
LOS ANGELES - Hogan & Hartson has lured a high-profile litigator from Irell & Manella to take the reigns of its West C...
Judges and Judiciary
West Hollywood's Pot Club Woes A Long-Shot for Sympathy in D.C.
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court will face a mountain of petitions that have piled up over the quiet summer months when the...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters ordered to jail for refusing to name sources of secret grand jury testim...