Judicial Profile
Canceled Sept. 11 Plane Reservation Puts Judge on New Life Path
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - At first glance, the distinguished-looking gray-haired man in a black robe looks like your typical judge in your...
Environmental
Greenhouse Gas Bill Creates New Arena for Legal Expertise
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - Depending on whom you ask, California's sweeping new program to limit greenhouse gas pollution spells either b...
SACRAMENTO - The California attorney general's probe into who obtained the phone records of Hewlett Packard's corporate direct...
FORUM COLUMN - When I made partner, I thought my professional dreams had come true. ...
FOCUS COLUMN - They sound odd, but they're fighting words in the Silicon Valley electronics industry: WEEE and RoHS. ...
Hate cannot be disguised by any argument no matter how logical or persuasive that argument appears at first glance. ...
Environmental
Appeal Court Rules Against Water Board's Selective Restrictions
By Dennis Pfaffn
A state appeal court says regulators can't selectively impose restrictions on a Northern California irrigation district's rive...
LOS ANGELES - James William Hill joined McDermott Will & Emry's Orange County office as a partner Sept. 1, becoming one of...
Judges and Judiciary
Justices Say Severing Inmate's Parental Rights Does Not Violate Indian Law
By Laura Ernden
Two years ago, a Sacramento judge cited Indian custody law when he refused to cut parental ties between a little girl and a ma...
Environmental
9th Circuit Sticks to the Clean Water Pragmatism of 'Rapanos'
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - In an August 28 Forum column ("New Math: One of Nine Votes Equals a Majority?"), Michael M. Berger reviewed the...
SANTA ANA - Maxwell S. Boas, a founder and driving force behind Western State University College of Law, died Friday morning a...
Government
U.S. Lawyer Seeks Persian Artifacts to Pay for Terrorism
By Annemarie Ruffn
LOS ANGELES - The government of Iran has hired an American lawyer, dispatched its former president to the United States, and p...
Technology & Science
Ex-HP Board Member Questions Sonsini's Role in Disclosure
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - Thomas Perkins, the former Hewlett-Packard board member at the center of the pretexting controversy, has mounted...
LOS ANGELES - In an usual twist, lawyers for the Los Angeles Archdiocese temporarily won a fight to keep priests files confide...
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is likely to face yet another legal challenge to putting enemy combatants on trial if Con...
"The judge was an attractive, diminutive blonde and ex-prosecutor who had been on the bench at least as long as I'd had my tic...
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary added Ronen Elad as partner in the firm's Century City office. Elad, who left Gibson, Dunn & C...
LOS ANGELES - The Day of the Dead is nearly two months away, and Teresa Sanchez-Gordon can't wait. ...
LOS ANGELES - Casey Reilly plops down on the living room sofa between his mother, attorney N. Jane DuBovy, and Carrie Watts, a...
Labor/Employment
When a Leave of Absence Becomes Indefinite, Employers Can Fill the Position
By Eric Berkowitzn
EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - One of the most perplexing issues employment lawyers face is how long an employer must hold open a positio...
LOS ANGELES - What happens in Vegas will return to Los Angeles. At least some of it, anyway. ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Retired Justice Is Known for Family Law Expertise
By Anna Oberthurn
There's something fitting about a man who has spent much of his career presiding over the dissolutions of other peoples' marri...
Public Interest
Ruling Rightly Protects Privacy of Officers' Records
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - The Supreme Court's recent decision in Copley Press Inc. v. Superior Court of San Diego County, 2006 DJDAR 1183...
Investments
Trustees, Firm at Odds Over Responsibility for Spotting Theft
By Rebecca Beyer
LOS ANGELES - Should a law firm retained to set up a family trust be held liable for the theft of $3.6 million from the trust ...
Government
IRS Joins U.S. Prosecutor's Task Force in Sniffing Out Stock-Option Backdating
By Craig Anderson
SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area companies and executives facing the scrutiny of both the Department of Justice and the Securities and...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has refused to let a retail store chain off the hook for not making its Web site accessible to...
From stricter trademark applications to complex trade secret litigation, intellectual property lawyers from across the state d...
FORUM COLUMN - A freelance documentary filmmaker is facing jail time for refusing to comply with a subpoena to turn over to fe...
RIVERSIDE - Immigration prosecutions surged dramatically between 1994 and 2003, leading an upswing in federal criminal cases n...
Judges and Judiciary
Bush Nominates Two Judges to U.S. Central District Bench
By Hurley
WASHINGTON - President Bush has nominated two Los Angeles County Superior Court judges to vacant seats on the U.S. District Co...