By Amy K. Spees Members of the Association of Corporate Counsel were scheduled to descend upon the Windy city Sunday to hold ...
INDIO - In a move that launches the state's takeover of trial-court facilities, state officials Thursday got the keys to a rem...
Focus Column - Real Property - By Jerome J. Blum - In Kirkeby v. Superior Court , 2004 DJDAR 8917 (Cal. July 22, 2004), the st...
Government
Congress Should Encourage, Not Impede, Development of Vaccines
By Columnist
Forum Column - By James Wood - The flu vaccine shortage has become a political talking point, bringing with it, unfortunately,...
Labor/Employment
Employers Can Avoid Heartburn-Inducing Pitfalls of Employment-Law
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Column - Employment Law - By Jonathan Fraser Light - The small- to medium-size employer does not have a battery of risk manage...
Letter to the Editor - Professor [Rory] Little's otherwise-good article ("Supreme Court Decisions on Sentencing Ignore Intenti...
SAN FRANCISCO - United Parcel Service Inc. violated federal and state anti-discrimination laws by refusing to hire people wit...
Companies that hold contracts with Los Angeles County are required to provide employees with five days of jury service, regard...
Frederick A. Morgan, known by colleagues as a dean of the traditional labor bar, died Saturday of leukemia. He was 78. "First...
SANTA ANA - A woman who killed her husband after she caught him having oral sex with a 16-year-old will get a new trial, an ap...
LOS ANGELES - A man allegedly beaten by a Los Angeles bus driver can proceed with a civil damages claim, a state appellate cou...
SAN JOSE - A senior associate with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati was charged Thursday with one count of statutory rape...
SAN FRANCISCO - An immigration judge's "extraordinary" action in effectively banning an entire law firm from representing a c...
Judges and Judiciary
Commission Rebukes Judge For Displaying Bias in Dispute
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Performance publicly admonished Superior Court Judge Brett C. Klein of Los Angeles on...
SAN FRANCISCO - The ACLU filed suit against the FBI Thursday, demanding it release documents related to the ongoing investiga...
Entertainment & Sports
Tribunal Lets U.S. Olympic Gymnast Keep Gold Medal
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Declaring that athletic scoring controversies don't belong in the courtroom, a Swiss-based Olympic sports tribun...
Government
A Strong Proponent of Unfair Competition Law Reform Opposes Proposition 64
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A San Diego law professor has been proposing reforms of the state's unfair competition law for years. He is the a...
SACRAMENTO - Big corporations and small businesses have raised a lot of money this year to persuade voters to approve a ballot...
Appellate Practice
Malpractice Suit Tanks as Panel Spanks The Plaintiff
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate panel delivered more bad news Wednesday to a disgruntled patent holder in its long-runnin...
LOS ANGELES - Responding to an explosion of financially strapped Californians representing themselves in court, the Los Angele...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutions of aliens who re-entered the country illegally nearly tripled in Los Angeles in the past y...
Labor/Employment
Opposing Class Certification Requires Careful Preparation
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld Since the decision in Bell v. Farmers Insurance Exchange , 87 Cal.App....
SACRAMENTO - California's insurance commissioner, saying he's been investigating kickbacks in the insurance industry for mont...
Criminal
Supreme Court Has Painted Itself Into Corner Over Capital Punishment
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Forum Column - By Robert Weisberg - Last week, the Supreme Court heard argument in Roper v. Simmons about whether sentencing a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Animals can't sue on their own behalf in environmental cases, including those invoking the Endangered Species...
A federal judge in Los Angeles has thrown out evidence in the criminal case against Ventura pharmacist Richard Ozar, who is c...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court waded Wednesday into a long-running legal feud between nationally prominent tria...
Criminal
Betting on Prime Time: Forget World Series; Wait for LAPD Reality Show
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - If you have an office betting pool, you might want to drop the World Series action and start a line...
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer announced Wednesday his office has obtained a $1.8 million default judgment against...
SACRAMENTO - As one of the state's most understaffed benches, having endured several years of shrinking budgets, the Sacramen...