WASHINGTON - Anticipating the nomination of a jurist with a long record of conservative jurisprudence, social conservatives we...
MIXED USE RANCHO BERNARDO - Kilroy Realty Corp. purchased a 303,000-square-foot office, engineering and manufacturing building...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - California courts long have recognized that the duty to defend is important...
Letter to the Editor - As one who has suffered silently the earlier response of the off-key choral renditions of "America the ...
Judges and Judiciary
State Prepares to Circumvent Court Clogging
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - The state is preparing to send San Bernardino County criminal cases to neighboring courts to protect them aga...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Bush Will Name Latham Partner to Federal Trade Commission
By Amy Spees
SAN FRANCISCO - President Bush announced Thursday that he intends to nominate J. Thomas Rosch, a former managing partner of L...
Firm Watch
Southwestern Law School Installs First New Dean in 27 Years
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - Bryant G. Garth, an internationally recognized scholar and legal researcher, was installed Thursday as the dean...
LOS ANGELES - The supervising judge of the Los Angeles County criminal courts denied a fair hearing for a 52-year-old man seek...
SAN FRANCISCO - Monterey Commissioner Richard Rutledge resigned after the district attorney said he shouldn't have been heari...
SAN FRANCISCO - Stephen Fackler, a fixture in the Silicon Valley executive compensation community, has joined Gibson, Dunn &a...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area has a new staffer heading its African-A...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Is Epitome of Judicial Temperament, Attorneys Say
By Don Ray
LOS ANGELES - Norwalk attorney John A. McDonald doesn't mince words when he talks about Superior Court Judge Larry S. Knupp. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Calling its provisions a threat to California's economy, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week vetoed a bill t...
Real Estate/Development
Did Property Rights Lawyer Argue 'Other Side' in Pier Dipute?
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Ronald Zumbrun, the guru of private property rights in California, has spent much of his career fighting for l...
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory has announced that Randall K. Broberg has joined the firm as a partner in the Del Mar ...
WASHINGTON - John G. Roberts Jr. paid tribute to his predecessor and mentor, William H. Rehnquist, after taking the oath of o...
OFFICE LONG BEACH - Adler Realty Investments Inc. borrowed $29.5 million through Wrightwood Capital for the purchase of a 194...
Appellate Practice
Circuits Split Over Lanham's Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
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Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Laura W. Brill, Richard G. Frenkel, Katharine J. Galston, Christopher M. Newman and Jonathan...
Forum Column - By David J. Ozeran - The defendant loses at trial, and the plaintiff recovers a substantial judgment. Among the...
Labor/Employment
Faraway, Far-Fetched Idea: Why Not Farm Out Patent Work Overseas?
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Employment Column - By Scott C. Harris - Those who track legal trends have come out with a staggering figure: By 2016, as much...
LOS ANGELES - The bond between El Centro attorney Lowell F. Sutherland and his client runs deeper than the personal injury cas...
LOS ANGELES - Troy D. Roe did not consider becoming a lawyer until a professor suggested the idea to him during his final year...
LOS ANGELES - A Sacramento appellate court has agreed to reconsider one of its published opinions that lambasted attorneys for...
Column By Peter Blumberg One developed a hunger for justice as a witness to the racial violence in Birmingham, Ala., at the h...
LOS ANGELES - Last Friday, veteran Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Michael Yamamoto went to court for the first time as...
SAN FRANCISCO - Monterey County Commissioner Richard Rutledge will not face criminal charges over allegations that he fixed tr...
LOS ANGELES - The panoramic vista from Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Anthony J. Mohr's chambers at the Central Civil West ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Providian Financial Corp., one of the nation's largest credit card issuers, has agreed to pay $3 million to se...
SAN BERNARDINO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George has honored Tressa Sloan Kentner, executive officer of the San Bernardino Supe...
RETAIL UPLAND - Passco Real Estate Enterprises Inc. sold Upland Square Shopping Center at 813-913 W. Foothill Blvd. for $19.1...