LOS ANGELES - When the Los Angeles offices of Fulbright & Jaworski moved to larger digs last year, partner Michael G. Smoo...
Law Practice
Coming to America: Scientist From Russia Takes Circuitous Route to Legal Practice
By Martin Bergn
Boris Gorbis seems to take life with a sense of humor. His office is in the Flynt Building, as in Larry Flynt, the publisher o...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday jumped back into the divisive issue of race-based school admissions, agreeing to consider a c...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Candidate Tracks Down Sign Thief in Midnight Stakeout
By Tim Hay
SAN FRANCISCO - Frederick Remer, running for a hotly contested seat on the Alameda County Superior Court, spent Friday night o...
A man accused of dangling his 2-year-old daughter off a balcony, beating up his wife and decapitating her cat will not be let ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera's entire office should be disqualified from a fraud case against on...
LOS ANGELES - Three veteran Los Angeles County Superior Court bench officers are retiring this month. Judge Jacob Adajian left...
LOS ANGELES - It was music that brought State Bar Court Judge Madge S. Watai to the United States from her home in Hawaii. Her...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal regulators must include terrorism in analyzing possible environmental impacts of a nuclear power proje...
Focus Column - By Diane L. Becker - Insurance is an important element of any legal risk management program. A good insurance p...
Environmental
Ruling Hints Roberts Court Isn't Hide-Bound Conservative
By David Minkown
Forum Column - By Norman A. Dupont - A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month in favor of fish, eels and other aquatic ...
Ethics and corporate governance, litigation and intellectual property are the practice areas in highest demand, according to a...
LOS ANGELES - In the sex abuse scandals rocking California's Catholic Church, Oliver O'Grady is considered one of the worst ca...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton continues to woo laterals into its San Francisco office to stock practic...
Judges and Judiciary
Two Sitting Judges Mired in Controversy Fight to Retain Their Seats
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Two Northern California judges are fighting for re-election Tuesday. One struggles with a tarnished reputation, a...
RIVERSIDE - Jeffrey Prevost, a six-year Riverside County Superior Court commissioner, has been elevated to a judgeship. Go...
SAN FRANCISCO - National employment and labor firm Littler Mendelson announced that it would welcome the return of partner Lin...
Firm Watch
Independent Neutral Starts Construction Mediation Group
By Tamadhur Alaqeeln
LOS ANGELES - Independent mediator Ross R. Hart is teaming with the National Arbitration Forum to create a construction mediat...
Judges and Judiciary
San Mateo Voters Get Rare Chance to Elect Judge
By Savannah Blackwell
SAN FRANCISCO - When San Mateo County voters go to the polls Tuesday, they will have two unusual opportunities: selecting a Su...
Litigation
Shifting the Blame Can Sting - a Backlash Lay and Skilling Now Feel
By David Houstonn
Column - By Garry Abrams - Phil Spector, the big-haired, fashion-freaky, eccentricity-epitomizing record producer, and former ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Had he known it would cause him so much trouble, a Shasta County man might not have gone ballistic about blue ...
LOS ANGELES - Boston-based Mintz Levin has tried for years to put together a West Coast strategy. The firm opened a small Los...
Smoke 'em if you got 'em. A cigarette importer improperly hid 44 million Marlboros from the tax man in a Southern California ...
SANTA ANA - A San Diego federal jury has awarded Nortel Networks $47.4 million in punitive damages against a smaller competito...
Commissioner John M. Murphy has tried to steer dozens of youthful offenders, including his puppy Shadow, away from destructive...
Commissioner Rocky Lee Crabb knows the value of a hard day's work. While growing up in Riverside, he mowed lawns in his neighb...
Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - On May 15, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its first environmental decision since Chief ...
LOS ANGELES - If both Democratic candidates for state attorney general have their way, voters will be convinced that one of th...
Insurance
Businesses Need to Prepare for Risks From Avian Flu Disaster
By David Minkown
Focus Column - By Amy J. Fink - Dire warnings that outbreaks of an avian influenza infection have the potential to turn into a...
Judges and Judiciary
Fresh Perspective Meets Decades-on-the-Bench in Court Bid
By Savannah Blackwell
SAN FRANCISCO - Four years after passing the State Bar Exam in 1989, Lynn Diane Olson quit her job as an associate at Christen...