State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA Asks How to Make Billing Better for All
By Robert Iafolla
LOS ANGELES - When Attorney Brad D. Brian began his tenure as the chairman of the American Bar Association's section on litiga...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former Oakland city planner and advocate for the rights of bicyclists has settled a lawsuit against the Calt...
The state Supreme Court all but declared "Bad Party Foul!" on Wednesday while reviewing a state policy that allows liquor lic...
Technology & Science
In Shadow of Tech Giants, Suburban San Mateo Court Adapts
By Craig Anderson
SAN MATEO - The complicated legal dramas arising in a less-populated county of the world's high-tech capital have their very o...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley vowed Wednesday to continue efforts to retool California's three-strikes law desp...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland attorney and politician whose advertisements proclaiming himself the 'People's Lawyer' became a sta...
LOS ANGELES - The Screen Actors Guild named Duncan Crabtree-Ireland as its general counsel on Wednesday. ...
FOCUS COLUMN - In eBay Inc. v. MercExchange LLC, 126 S.Ct. 1837 (2006), the U.S. Supreme Court abolished the longstanding pra...
SACRAMENTO - California's Indian tribes doled out $200 million to Sacramento lawmakers and initiatives over the past decade. ...
FOCUS COLUMN - The business of family law can often involve emotions of clients that change very rapidly. As such, it is not u...
SAN FRANCISCO - A whistle-blower lawsuit against the University of Phoenix - the nation's largest private university - can pro...
Judges and Judiciary
Seminars Serve Public, Not Propaganda, Interests
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - If one believed certain sources, the nation's judges are being brainwashed at propaganda seminars that are staf...
SAN FRANCISCO - Private security guards employed by a California company with clients around the world claim they've been chea...
Large Firms
What's in a Name? Less Is More When It Comes to Law Firm Monikers
By Robert Iafolla
LOS ANGELES - Like other megalaw firms looking to leave behind long, unwieldy names, DLA Piper dropped Rudnick Gray Cary from ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco County Superior Court has seen a dramatic increase in electronically filed documents for asbesto...
Judges and Judiciary
State High Court Likely to Protect Internet Users and Providers From Suits
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Supreme Court seemed poised Tuesday to rule that Internet users and providers cannot be sued f...
Discipline
Court Won't Let Lawyer Resign One Day Before His Disbarment
By Amy Yarbroughn
Sometimes, there is such a thing as too late. ...
LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles County District Attorney Ira Reiner is leaving the city Thursday for a one-year teaching stin...
Appellate Practice
Appellate Panel Lets Tobacco Firm Off Class-Action Hook
By Laura Ernden
Two years ago, Philip Morris USA kicked in $200,000 to help pass a California ballot initiative that made it harder for people...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and alleged victims are reviewing a list of 83 sexual ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Curtis E. A. Karnow feels as comfortable in cyberspace as he does in...
SAN FRANCISCO - When people ask Joan C. Williams why she ended up studying how work and family life fit together, the Hastings...
SAN FRANCISCO - When people ask Joan C. Williams why she ended up studying how work and family life fit together, the Hastings...
L.A. Superior Court Commissioner John W. Green Focuses on What Needs to Be Done
Civil Rights
Marriage's Public Purpose Is Defined by Natural Law, Not Civil Rights
By Eric Berkowitzn
The debate over whether homosexual couples should be allowed to legally marry is not about rights, equality or discrimination,...
Securities
In Most Cases, Insurance May Apply in Option Backdating Suits
By Eric Berkowitzn
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and federal law enforcement authorities are currently investigating historical st...
Labor Day has long signaled the start of the fall political campaign season, and the end of students' school vacations. Now ca...
LOS ANGELES - Some men struggle to step out of the shadow of a successful father. Not Steve Glickman. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Antitrust litigation partner Anita F. Stork joined Covington & Burling's San Francisco office Friday from ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran litigator Jacquelyn J. Garman thought she'd never leave the firm she joined directly out of Stanford U...