Agriculture
Appeals Court Allows Suit by Harvesters for Alleged Forced Grape Tasting
By Jim Adamekn
Several former harvesters at one of the Coachella Valley's largest table grape vineyards will get to pursue a lawsuit on claim...
Law Practice
Winston Entices Kirpatrick Litigator to Switch Firms
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - For Jonathan M. Cohen, the most recent lateral partner acquired by Winston & Strawn's San Francisco office...
LOS ANGELES - Denver-based Brownstein Hyatt & Farber has established a California presence by opening an office in Orange ...
A groundbreaking 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that protects defendants awaiting trial from having their homes raid...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two partners from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Silicon Valley office have left to join Ropes & Gra...
LOS ANGELES - Thelton Henderson, a U.S. District judge in San Francisco for 25 years, has long enjoyed the respect of his peer...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jury Awards $12 Million to Lawyer Injured in Train Crash
By Anat Rubinn
LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena jury awarded $12 million Friday to an attorney for injuries sustained in a Metrolink crash involving ...
Large Firms
White & Case Loses Two More Partners Who Love S.F.
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Two more White & Case partners have decided to leave rather than move to the firm's Silicon Valley offices...
Law Practice
Roberts Court Gave Arguments More Room, and Some Fell Flat
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court are always part theater, but changes in the cast of characters on the co...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco Superior Court jury Friday delivered a major defeat to chemical manufacturers, finding a widel...
LOS ANGELES - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati announced the addition of Renata Hesse as a partner to the firm's Reston, V...
Ming Chin, Back From Brain Surgery, Steers His Influential Course With Quiet Expertise
Alternative Dispute Resolution
In Riverside, a Case Settler Works 'Miracles'
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - He hung up his robe almost 30 years ago. But every Monday and Tuesday, Elwood M. Rich, a retired Riverside County ...
Focus Column - By Denica E. Anderson and Catherine Valerio Barrad - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has just denied en b...
Labor/Employment
DAs Deserve as Much Free-Speech Protection as Professors Do
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Michael Halley - Garcetti v. Ceballos marks the first occasion in which the newly constituted Supreme Court ...
Labor/Employment
Private Employers Have Much at Stake in State High-Court's Docket
By Amy Kalinn
Employment Column - By Brad Grabske - The California Supreme Court will continue to be busy deciding a variety of legal issues...
Focus Column - By Teresa A. Beaudet and Jerome Jauffret - In three recent decisions, the California Court of Appeal has restri...
Military Law
Key to Prosecuting U.S. Leaders Over Iraq Is 'Command Responsibility'
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - They ranged from little babies to adult males and females. I'll never be able to get that ou...
Discipline
Federal Panel OKs Online Attorney-Client Matching Services
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - Online attorney-client matching services are ethically OK and probably good for people looking for lawyers, a pa...
Judges and Judiciary
Riverside Judge Receives Public Censure for Drunken-Driving Incident
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County Superior Court judge got hit with a public censure by the state judicial watchdog agency Thursd...
SAN FRANCISCO - The lead prosecutor in a high-profile trial over the killing a San Francisco police officer has suffered a hea...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court seemed poised Thursday to rule that public entities may not sue or be sued as "pers...
Litigation
Foundation Offers to Buy Land to Save Disputed Urban Garden
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - The Annenberg Foundation has offered to buy the 14-acre South Central Farm, four miles south of downtown Los Ang...
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Bar Association is now leaning on Congress to stand up to the Bush administration's domestic-spyi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sonoma County judge known for imposing tough sentences in DUI cases received a public censure Thursday by th...
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 ...