MARTINEZ - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Jill Fannin grew up in a household where body parts were often the subject...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a decision by liberal 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Step...
Column - By Garry Abrams - The other day an anonymous source approached me on the street and handed me a bulky manila envelope...
Edi M.O. Faal cuts an imposing figure. He chooses his words carefully, giving him an almost regal bearing - in marked contrast...
Labor/Employment
Casino's Grooming Rules Held as 'Essentially Equal' for Sexes
By David Minkown
Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - According to a recent 9th Circuit en banc decision, "[g]rooming st...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - "The reparations movement is grounded in the civil rights movement and the social justice mo...
SACRAMENTO - Lobbyists frequently gripe that term limits make it harder for them to get to know and understand the positions o...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived tabloid celebrity Anna Nicole Smith's long-running legal efforts to secu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Some 6 million Netflix customers will get free DVD rentals from the online service in a $70 million class acti...
Appellate Practice
Players Can't Walk Away From Games in Protest, Panel Rules
By Itir Yakarn
What are you allowed to do if your high-school basketball coach yells profanities at you and your team, throws pens and towels...
LOS ANGELES - Carlos Herrera and Enrique Arellano both slipped into the United States two decades ago and raised families. O...
SAN FRANCISCO - The government can't make a lawsuit go away simply by asserting that it might compromise national security. ...
RIVERSIDE - On the eve of a new trial, attorneys unexpectedly announced a settlement Monday in a civil case against a high-ran...
Firm Watch
Pillsbury Wisely Kept Chair on West Coast, Observers Say
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - The new leaders of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman will probably be spread between D.C., Los Angeles and San F...
LOS ANGELES - Howard Vogel, a Florida-based real estate broker, has agreed to plead guilty to perjury in connection with his ...
LOS ANGELES - More than a month after reports that merger talks with Minneapolis-based Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi wer...
Family
Politics Bastardizes Divorce-Privacy Bill Into Tool for Wiliest, Wealthiest
By David Minkown
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - It is not typical to write this column in the first person, but the topic is a bit differe...
Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - It is not uncommon in family law proceedings for the ...
LOS ANGELES - Environmental lawyer Cynthia Burch remembers watching trials at the International Court of Justice in The Hague...
The addition of a former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer to Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker's litigation depar...
LOS ANGELES - James O. Thoma, a corporate media attorney, has joined Greenberg Traurig's Santa Monica office as a shareholder...
LOS ANGELES - Syd Whalley may not seem like the most obvious choice for the Western Center on Law and Poverty's next executive...
LOS ANGELES - Jeffrey C. Briggs, a partner at Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan in Los Angeles, has been tapped to chair th...
LOS ANGELES - Mario Rocha was kicking back in the day room at Calipatria State Prison with a bunch of fellow inmates, watching...
LOS ANGELES - John Zhang sounds like he could be from Colorado or Oregon. But he was born and raised in Hangzhou, China. He g...
LOS ANGELES - Myanmar villagers said their nation's military used rape, torture and murder to force them to build a natural ga...
LOS ANGELES - Mary Lou Katz's lack of criminal-law experience was not a handicap when she became a Los Angeles Superior Court...
SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge James H. Poole was giving some of the misdemeanor defendants before him suggest...
Ethan D. Feffer joined the Orange County office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as a partner in the firm's corporat...
Attorneys Are Honored for Their Pro Bono Work - Katten Muchin Partner Gets Ms. Vision Award - DLA Piper Partners Avoid Archaic...