WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday questioned whether police can be sued for how they enforced a restraining order again...
LOS ANGELES - The city of South Gate is nearing a global settlement with Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton over the firm's...
Administrative/Regulatory
9th Circuit to Reconsider Civil Rights Suit in Search for Parolee
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Monday to revisit its September ruling that Los Angeles and fed...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday threw out a racketeering lawsuit that had accused three U.S. Forest Service employees...
Judges and Judiciary
Routine Perils of Legal Career Include Ice Picks, Razor Blades, Guns
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Way back in 1987 during a sentencing hearing at the Torrance courthouse, a disgruntled client stabb...
SAN FRANCISCO - Just months after a three-way merger created DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, the massive law firm has lost three...
Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Lentz Snyder says there's more than one way for her to fight crime. In addition ...
Column - Closer - By Valerie A. Fontaine - The November 2004 passage of Proposition 71, California's stem cell research and cu...
International
Whether to Offshore Legal Work, That Is the Question
By Draeger Martinez
First it was factory workers, then software engineers and other "knowledge workers" who felt the sting from outsourcing. ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Attorney Manages to Get Arbitration Award Vacated
By Eron Yehuda
Vacating an arbitration award is nearly impossible. But Beverly Hills attorney Julie Waldman recently pulled it off, saving he...
Desert AIDS Project is a Palm Springs charity that benefits from the general public's understanding and sympathy for HIV-affec...
If Philadelphia-based Cozen O'Connor was writing a help-wanted ad, it might read as follows: "Wanted, world-class lawyers, sma...
Jeffrey Cawdrey is one of the few San Diegans who's seen the negative side of the county's booming economy. Cawdrey, a bankrup...
Money, money, money - money. The Scene couldn't help but hum the catchy song while perusing the rows of items up for bid at th...
Litigation
Health Care Provider Wins $8 Million Award From Insurer
By Draeger Martinez
A Texas-based health care provider won an $8 million arbitration award after it proved that insurance company PacifiCare, also...
INDUSTRIAL PLEASANTON - D&K purchased an 18,000-square-foot industrial building at 3526 Investment Blvd. from the T. Whit...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda Superior Court Judge John True III has a good bloodline for a judge. But nothing in the genes of this ...
During the early part of World War II, Winston Churchill said something about the United States that stuck with President Clin...
While other third-year law students are molding legal specialties and jockeying for summer-associate positions with large law ...
In a move to beef up its expertise in international trade, intellectual property and banking regulation, Bryan Cave lured nine...
As a prosecutor, Pamela Wechsler had built quite a resume. First, she spent 10 years in the Boston district attorney's office,...
It's not often you find a lawyer with a doctorate in biophysical chemistry, says Fred Herold, hiring partner for Dechert's Pal...
After spending 20 years at Cooley Godward, commercial trial attorney Benjamin Riley has defected to Howrey Simon Arnold & ...
Bankruptcy lawyers are closely following what many consider a chilling reform bill that could hold them liable for mistakes in...
Intellectual Property
Antitrust Tying Claim Enjoys Market Power Presumption
By Contributing Writer
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Henry C. Su - U.S. antitrust laws forbid a seller from requiring a buyer who wants t...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - For those of you who read last month about covenant marriage ("No Wedding Bells: Covenant ...
Juvenile
SF Judge's Ruling Makes Clear: All Families Have Right to Family Values
By Contributing Writer
Forum Column - By Judy Appel - Last week a California judge issued a ruling that offers hope to our children for a future free...
SANTA ANA - Two-and-a-half years after the nude body of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion was discovered in mountains 50 miles from ...
There you sit, staring at the cards, wondering which to hold and playing the odds. One bad move and you bust. But how do you d...
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego congresswoman is trying to open the door to the U.S. Supreme Court for a man who has long insisted tha...