Forum Column - By Robert D. Richards - The sound of popping corks across the country has quieted considerably since the U.S. S...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Ilana S. Rubel - The implementation of document retention policies has become a risky business ...
Corporate
Deregulation Will Unleash Investment In Telecommunications Infrastructure
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Mallory Factor - Imagine a world of true telecommunications convergence. You get everything you want - video...
SANTA ANA - The man convicted of killing 5-year-old Samantha Runnion is headed for death row. Alejandro Avila showed no remors...
SAN FRANCISCO - In an effort to boost Kirkland & Ellis' intellectual property prowess, the firm recently relocated partner...
LOS ANGELES - Five attorneys with Brown, Winfield & Canzoneri will leave the firm at the end of the month to open a Los A...
LOS ANGELES - A psychotherapist cannot be held responsible for the violent acts of a client unless that person directly commu...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Jennifer Hernandez's practice evolved from traditional environmental work to real estate and redevelopme...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has taken an unusual swipe at the state Supreme Court in the case of an...
Constitutional Law
Footnote in Decision Worries State Shield-Law Supporters
By Lorelei Laird
LOS ANGELES - A footnote in a recent Court of Appeals decision has caused First Amendment advocates to worry the justices may ...
LOS ANGELES - University of California law schools will cost $2,400 more to attend beginning early next year, under a fee hik...
Administrative/Regulatory
Utility Initiave Backers Seek High Court Review
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Proponents of a citizens' initiative to repeal key parts of the state's utility deregulation law said they wi...
SAN DIEGO - A week ago, jurors convicted two San Diego city councilmen in connection with a scheme to take money in exchange f...
Judges and Judiciary
Justice Wants to See Limits on Appeals, Oral Arguments
By Dan Evans
VENTURA - Justice Kenneth R. Yegan says the vast majority of the appellate cases that cross his desk are dead on arrival. Som...
Morrison & Foerster's San Diego office has added corporate partner Jeremy Glaser. Glaser comes from a position of general ...
LOS ANGELES - Independent lawyers who monitor the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said they found no evidence of civi...
SPOKANE, Wash. - Warm and witty and plain-spoken as always, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor reflected humbly Thursday on her lega...
INDUSTRIAL MONTEBELLO - TA Associates Realty purchased the 133,521-square-foot Beach Distribution Park industrial buildings f...
Focus Column - Law Practice - By Robbie Solomon - Paper, paper everywhere. But times are changing, and law firms that embrace ...
Admiralty/Maritime
Mental Torture: Behavioral Scientists at Gitmo May Cross Line
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Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - When the news broke that a "torture memo" written by lawyers within the Bush Administrat...
Forum Column - By Michael A. S. Newman - The study of history, especially the history of the distant past, is hampered by a pa...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court ordered the state Department of Transportation to pay a $3.6 million wrongful-death jury ver...
LOS ANGELES - The birth of a child is supposed to be a joyous occasion. But for the Passalaqua family, a mishap during the de...
SAN FRANCISCO - Richard L. Patsey attributes his effective mediation style to having served 20 years as a Contra Costa Superi...
Firm Watch
'Stellar' Trial Lawyer Will Lead Alternate Defenders Program
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Public Defender Mary Greenwood on Thursday named David Epps her assistant in charge of the alte...
Litigation
Federal Judge Will Weigh Fair's Ban on Off-Duty Officers' Guns
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - In their line of work, police officers and sheriff's deputies come across a "variety of nasty people," San Diego...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Thursday reinstated a proposed class action by emergency room doctors, who claim Blue Cro...
Personal Injury & Torts
County Counsel Allege Jury Misconduct in Ovando Verdict
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Los Angeles County have accused jurors of engaging in rampant misconduct during deliberations in May...
MURRIETA - A Riverside County lawyer who defended people accused of drug offenses was himself convicted Thursday of six felon...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco filed a rare environmental lawsuit Thursday against a concrete company the city accused of pollu...