Pittsburgh-based Buchanan Ingersoll may have been down, but it showed in April that it's not out in San Diego. And firm manage...
EXTRA Column - By Ellen Blattel - Preparing for a verdict under the glaring lights of the media is critical for highly visible...
SAN FRANCISCO - China has state-of-the-art patent rules and is furiously cracking down on infringers. Preposterous? Not accor...
A former Central Freight Lines Inc. employee quit her job and checked into a county hospital for four days over the trauma she...
LOS ANGELES - Lisa Korben, a tenants' rights lawyer known for her aggressive pursuit of landlords, has died. Korben, a former...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place May 14 for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William A. Drake of Northridge. Dra...
LOS ANGELES - Attorney and former Gray Davis appointment secretary Michael R. Yamaki has been hired as a senior adviser with ...
EXTRA Feature - With rapid technological advances, a booming biotech industry and the soaring popularity of reality television...
Judges and Judiciary
Chief Justice Calls for More Judges
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - San Bernardino and Riverside counties are the "poster children" for regions that have too few judges to keep up w...
SAN DIEGO - A former U.S. attorney in San Diego turned educator will be Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's next secretary of educat...
SAN FRANCISCO - Last week's nominal damage award to eight anti-logging protesters could be a $2 million poke in the eye for t...
LOS ANGELES - A proposed class action filed in Los Angeles federal court Friday claims 300,000 lawyers and law students have b...
Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Deborah Chang and Monsi Morales - On April 20, President Bush signed into law the Bankruptc...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Deals Well With Absurd Side of Human Condition
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda Superior Court Judge Carol Brosnahan had all of the usual preliminaries to settle before taking the b...
INDUSTRIAL GOLETA - Cortona Opportunity Limited purchased a 61,000-square-foot industrial building at 6868 Cortona Drive from...
SANTA ANA - A federal judge has ruled against thousands of Orange County Jail inmates who claimed their constitutional rights...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury concluded Thursday that Humboldt County authorities used excessive force in applying pep...
SANTA MARIA - Prosecutors began winding down their case against Michael Jackson this week with surprise testimony from the si...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles raised the stakes in one of the region's biggest corporate-fraud scand...
SAN FRANCISCO - California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown might never have imagined a fellow judge campaigning on t...
Administrative/Regulatory
Context, Atmosphere Figure In Determining Misconduct
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael Paul Thomas - Attorney misconduct during trial has been defined as a dishonest act, or ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Unusual High-Court Spread Has Takings Litigants Holding Their Breath
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Forum Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - The right to own and reasonably use private property is a cornerstone of the U.S. Consti...
Labor/Employment
Employee Health Issues: Timing of Knowledge, Action Matters
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Employment Column - By Karen (Fine) Gabler - In today's environment of rising health care insurance and workers' compensation ...
SAN DIEGO - In a rare move, attorneys for two City Council members facing strip-club corruption charges have asked a judge to ...
SANTA MARIA - Stunning prosecutors who put her on the stand, Michael Jackson's ex-wife heaped praise on the singer Thursday, t...
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer withdrew Thursday from the race for governor, saying he will run for state treasur...
LOS ANGELES - A former civil engineer has sued Costco, claiming the popular wholesaler negligently allowed cardboard boxes to...
Large Firms
New York's Fried Frank Will Shutter Its Los Angeles Office
By Lorelei Laird
LOS ANGELES - New York-based Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobsen will close its doors in Los Angeles on June 30. The...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bolstered by its new status as a two-continent operation, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham will op...
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who suffered a broken nose when a Texas Rangers pitcher threw a folding chair into the stands at McAfe...