SAN LUIS OBISPO - When Gov. Gray Davis appointed Judge Charles Stevens "Steve" Crandall to the San Luis Obispo County Superior...
LOS ANGELES - The Internet file sharing outfit Grokster Ltd., in a surprise announcement Tuesday, said it would pay $50 milli...
LOS ANGELES - Richard A. Foxx, a prominent Los Angeles trial lawyer and co-founder of the American Board of Trial Advocates, ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles neutral Lee Jay Berman recently returned from India with a bronze statute of Buddha, a symbol of kno...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has overturned an immigration judge's denial of asylum to a Chinese Christian, saying th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ian Ballon, a leading commentator on the intersection of Internet, entertainment and intellectual property la...
Government
Thumbs Up to Thumbs Off: Justice in America Goes Under the Knife
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Flamboyant Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman caused a stir last week when he declared that surgery should be enliste...
THREATS POSE NO CONFLICT - You can still get a fair trial in Los Angeles even if you threaten a trio of judges, a federal appe...
SAN JOSE - Attorneys on Friday asked a federal judge to block a growing trend in which county jails are closing their law lib...
SAN FRANCISCO - John Bullock left San Francisco's Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass in 2002 in pursuit of writing the great Ame...
SAN FRANCISCO - From the point of view of some of California's rarest creatures, home might appear to be getting a lot smaller...
SAN FRANCISCO - To kick-start a public dialogue about poverty in California's Central Valley, UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall has con...
MULTIFAMILY HUNTINGTON BEACH - Portico Seashore LLC sold the 64-unit Seashore Apartments at 19822 Brookhurst St. to the Von G...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - A strange thing happened to the city of Malibu. It thought it had settled years of conte...
Letter to the Editor - This is a comment on the Nov. 1 letter to the editor ("Union Reforms in Prop. 75 Benefit Members) writt...
Focus Column - By Jens B. Koepke - A fairly new and little-known statute provides that a plaintiff asserting a trade secret cl...
Labor/Employment
Union Initiative Upsets Balance of Rights, Inviting Legal Challenge
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Forum Column - By Ruben J. Garcia - Imagine that you are on the board of an organization dedicated to broadening access to pre...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sideman & Bancroft, a boutique litigation firm in San Francisco, has brought on partners Emily Kingston, ...
LOS ANGELES - Robert R. Jesuele has joined the Century City office of Hogan & Hartson as a partner. Jesuele comes from th...
LOS ANGELES - Six months after the Kern School District stopped East Bakersfield High School students from publishing a serie...
SAN FRANCISCO - Eric Grover, the former managing partner of Littler Mendelson's San Francisco office, has left the firm and h...
LOS ANGELES - Six law firms in California have merged in the first three quarters of this year, matching the total for the sta...
Appellate Practice
Troubles Pile Up for Disgraced Lawyer - Inmate Can Sue Him
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has given a Folsom State Prison inmate a second chance at suing his former appellate law...
LOS ANGELES - Members of an association of Los Angeles County prosecutors are accusing their leader of cozying up to the depu...
MORE JUDGE TRAINING -- Trial judges may be going back to school. The Judicial Council of California has approved a model for m...
On The Move - Ropes & Gray has promoted firmwide seven associates to partner, including Gregory C. Davis in the firm's San...
Labor/Employment
Mental Exam Requests Require Scrutiny to Protect Privacy Interests
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Employment Column - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - This article shall explore some of the issues associated with defense mental exami...
SACRAMENTO - Phillip Wasserman wanted to support a Republican star. Ron Book was helping out a friend's in-law. And the partne...
SACRAMENTO - A tiny union that represents state lawyers and administrative law judges has ripped a seam in the tightly woven u...
LOS ANGELES - Mediator Stefan M. Mason has a knack for telling the right story at exactly the right time to ease tension in a ...