TAX EVASION BRINGS PRISON - A Campbell divorce attorney was sentenced to 21/2 years in prison after a jury convicted him of ev...
Focus Column - By Thomas B. Snyder - In Crawford v. Weather Shield Manufacturing Inc ., a subcontractor was held liable for pr...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Admonishes Jurist for Using Staff on Personal Work
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency has rebuked Orange Superior Court Judge John M. Watson for using court s...
LOS ANGELES - What's the cost of taking property off the competitive San Francisco rental market and displacing its occupants?...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned back a challenge by two tobacco companies to California's Proposition 9...
Education
Oops! Sorry About That Acceptance E-Mail, Boalt Hall Says
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - Admissions officials at University of California, Berkeley's law school sent out e-mail to up to 7,000 applicant...
SAN FRANCISCO - California's judicial watchdog agency has charged Judge Elaine M. Rushing of the Sonoma County Superior Court...
LOS ANGELES - The wiretapping allegations against private eye Anthony Pellicano have resulted in criminal charges against a d...
LOS ANGELES - A trial judge's refusal to instruct a jury on "imperfect self-defense" led to the reversal Tuesday of a second-d...
Firm Watch
Veteran Litigator Takes Nine Attorneys With Him to Luce
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps has nabbed veteran litigator Bruce S. Ross from Holland & Knight to s...
Litigation
Caltrans Pays $4.3 Million To Settle Deaf Church's Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Members of a church for the deaf who lost their house of worship in an eminent-domain condemnation will receive $...
Public Interest
'Jobs, Not Jails' Skid Row Protesters Shout at Politicos
By Anat Rubinn
LOS ANGELES - The crowd of politicians and police officers paced to the chants of angry protesters. A phalanx of TV cameras to...
Judges and Judiciary
Judging Ranks No. 1, Even Over Playing for the Oakland Raiders
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Michael K. Kellogg's colorful past includes manning pumps on remote desert oil rigs, teaching constitutional law...
WORK OF FAITH - You can justify anything you want by looking at a religious base. Bad idea. I don't approach religion that way...
Constitutional Law
Supreme Court Puts Sentencing In California on Shaky Ground
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Criminal sentencing in California was thrown into a state of uncertainty Tuesday as the U.S. Supreme Court agreed...
WORK OF FAITH - I can go in there [to court] and bang with the best of them. If I can negotiate, OK, I can be polite and say t...
LOS ANGELES - Harp El Segundo LLC, an affiliate of the Harp Group Inc., purchased the 215-room Doubletree Hotel Los Angeles In...
Focus Column - By David H. Raizman and Kaye E. Chaffee - In Advanced Bionics Corp. v. Medtronic Inc. , 29 Cal.4th 697 (2002), ...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - On Jan. 31, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed SB 517, a bill that will allow thousands of ...
Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - With so much at stake, it's surprising Rapanos v. United States isn't getting more atte...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediators Pay It Forward to Help Nonprofit
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - A group of mediators will donate a day's pay to Dispute Resolutions Services as a way to help the organization ...
Firm Watch
Class-Action-Defense Specialist Switches to Loeb & Loeb
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
LOS ANGELES - Michael Mallow, a commercial litigator specializing in class action defense, has joined Loeb & Loeb from Ki...
LOS ANGELES Davis Polk & Wardwell has nabbed intellectual property litigator Matthew B. Lehr from Latham & Watkins to...
LOS ANGELES - Tax specialist Gary A. Herrmann is the latest partner to defect from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe to Morga...
Appellate Practice
L.A. Judge Bans Discovery Before Preliminary Hearings
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - Supervising Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David S. Wesley has banned discovery before preliminary hear...
WASHINGTON - The outcome of a U.S. Supreme Court free speech battle involving a whistle-blowing Los Angeles County prosecutor...
LOS ANGELES - Ending weeks of maneuvering over who would preside over the wiretapping, racketeering and conspiracy trial of c...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles is helping hunt for the leaker who gave the Sacramento Bee sealed cour...
SAN FRANCISCO -.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed three attorneys to the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday. Thoma...
LOS ANGELES - Shelline Bennett has joined Liebert Cassidy Whitmore as managing partner of the firm's Fresno office. Bennett wa...