Immigration
Panel Decides Agency Erred in Delaying Doctor's Green Card
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - Foreign doctors who have worked for five years in poor neighborhoods are eligible for permanent residence in thi...
LOS ANGELES - A key member of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration is reportedly receptive to reappointing a highly res...
LOS ANGELES - Superior Court Commissioner Louise E. Halevy says she can find a redeeming quality in virtually everyone. ...
Letter to the Editor - Your article "Judicial Council and Judges' Group Battle Over Education" (May 23 Daily Journal) contains...
Labor/Employment
Public Employees' Speech Gets No Protection From 'Ceballos'
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - By J. Scott Tiedemann and Arlin B. Kachalia - Is a police officer entitled to First Amendment protection based ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Symbolism Trumps Substance in State Bar's Permanent-Disbarment Debate
By David Minkown
Forum Column - By David Cameron Carr - Since the state Supreme Court asked the State Bar of California for a proposed permanen...
LOS ANGELES - Edward McCaffery has been named interim dean of USC's Gould School of Law, the university provost's office has a...
SAN JOSE - San Jose medical device company Laserscope, represented by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, was acquired this we...
Criminal
Third Plea Bargain in Chinese Spy-Related Cases Nets No Jail Time
By John Hanusz
LOS ANGELES - Another ballyhooed Chinese spy-related prosecution, another plea bargain. Former FBI agent Denise K. Woo's guil...
Judges and Judiciary
Four Candidates Secure Seats on Los Angeles Superior Court
By Bobbi Murrayn
LOS ANGELES - Voters elected four new judges Tuesday to Los Angeles County Superior Court. In one of the races, an open seat, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Last-minute bad press about a probe of old drug cases and allegations of big spending on weapons took a toll i...
LOS ANGELES-A Century City attorney died at a local hospital late Tuesday after he was shot in the head Monday night, police s...
Judges and Judiciary
Two Front-Runners Out of Favor With L.A., Alameda Voters
By Bobbi Murrayn
LOS ANGELES - Voters handed defeats to two favorites in Los Angeles and Alameda judicial contests, while races remained too cl...
Appellate Practice
Court Extends Habeas Deadline for Spanish-Speaking Inmate
By Amelia Hansen
Growing up with Spanish-speaking parents is no excuse to miss a deadline for filing court papers while locked up in a Californ...
LOS ANGELES - Nine attorneys at Bingham McCutchen in Los Angeles have moved up and out. The lawyers, who formed the nucleus o...
LOS ANGELES - For the first time since the firm's indictment, a federal judge in Minnesota has removed Milberg, Weiss, Bershad...
Litigation
State Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Press Access in Officer Discipline Proceedings
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court took up a closely watched case Wednesday that pits the news media against law enf...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo announced a lawsuit in March to stop a downtown residential hotel own...
WASHINGTON - Politicians have for years enthusiastically accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions f...
Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - In a 1998 lecture called "The Interdependence of Science and Law," U.S. Supreme Court J...
Focus Column - By Cynthia L. Jackson - In the quest to be globally "ethical," companies may be ironically violating employment...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Saturday for Deputy Public Defender Michael Fischman, a 17-year veteran of th...
LOS ANGELES - A Century City attorney was shot several times outside his South Los Angeles home late Monday and left in critic...
Law Practice
From Civil Rights Lawyer in the '60s to Savvy Lobbyist and Policy Wonk
By Jennifer Hammn
SACRAMENTO - Gene Livingston has evolved from a civil rights lawyer in the 1960s to a lobbyist for the insurance and chemical ...
WASHINGTON - The new issue of the Stanford Law Review, published this week, offers a gift to die-hard fans of former Chief Jus...
SAN FRANCISCO - With Congress once again overhauling the nation's immigration laws, the courts will have plenty of work in the...
SAN JOSE - In the hills of Palo Alto, current and former chief executives of Silicon Valley technology companies are engaged i...
LOS ANGELES - Federal investigators have not cracked all the sophisticated codes indicted private detective Anthony Pellicano ...
Securities
By the Numbers: Fewer Securities Class Actions, Bigger Payouts
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - The number of private securities class actions filed in the United States dropped to the lowest level in nine ...
Public Interest
Amid Growing Influence, Public Counsel Celebrates 35 Years of Pro Bono
By Anat Rubinn
LOS ANGELES - Thirty-seven years ago, Ralph Nader came to Beverly Hills and scolded the lawyers. It made quite an impact on at...