SAN FRANCISCO - The ability of long-distance airline travelers who develop blood clots during flights to seek compensation fro...
Column - Closer - By Frank X. Curci - The technology industry has come to rely heavily on standards to bring new technology an...
Patent litigator and partner Terry Kearney left Fish & Neave in Palo Alto last month to join Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &...
A former Riverside commissioner alleges in a lawsuit that two male judges, one of whom was the court's presiding judge at the ...
LOS ANGELES - Just in case visitors to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Bob T. Hight's chambers in the Torrance Courthouse som...
Column - Trial Strategy - By Noelle C. Nelson - Most clients are nervous to some degree when taking the stand. After all, it's...
Firm Watch
Preston Gates Lawyer Is Mysterious Figure in Living-Art Spectacle
By Tina Spee
Night after night this summer, Irvine corporate lawyer David Perry donned a crushed, paint-speckled muslin jacket and climbed ...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - Denise doesn't seem like a typical foster kid - she is a slender, vivacious college s...
Labor/Employment
Employers Don't Have to Defer To Workers' Political Expression
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Travis P. Brennan - At the water cooler, Phil from the file room e...
SAN DIEGO - At the request of District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, a judge on Friday dismissed charges against a San Diego man wh...
SAN FRANCISCO - Farmers Insurance Group has agreed to pay about $210 million to end a long-running dispute with thousands of i...
SAN FRANCISCO - John E. Cantwell, a long-time labor attorney, died at his home in Walnut Creek following a long illness. He wa...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Draeger Martinez - With pollsters split on whether George W. Bush or John Kerry will win the ...
SAN DIEGO - A pistol-packing district attorney's investigator out for some off-road fun claims in an unusual federal lawsuit t...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland judge has given Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony until Nov. 5 to submit to a deposition by attorne...
SAN FRANCISCO - Seven years ago television viewers cringed at images of writhing young anti-logging protesters whose faces pol...
Judges and Judiciary
Longtime Judiciary Lobbyist Brought Branches Together
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Ray LeBov's announcement that he would retire after 13 years of directing the Judicial Council's lobbying arm has...
Government
Forget Gun Control: Let Nostalgic Politicians Bring Back Dueling
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Shopping for a dueling pistol isn't as easy as I thought it would be. Indeed, choosing the right side...
Appellate Practice
San Francisco Briefs Argue For Same-Sex Marriage
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Tradition, love of children or hatred of homosexuals: None of these are sufficient reasons to deny gay people ...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
'Empagran' Clears Up Only a Small Set of Antitrust Cases
By Columnist
Focus Column - International Law - By Matthew A. Fischer - On June 14, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court issued F. Hoffman-LaRoc...
Labor/Employment
As You Transition to Your New Job, Remember the Big Picture
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Stacy Miller Azcarate - You've gotten the job at your ideal law firm. You've given notice at your curre...
ORANGE - A former dean has sued Chapman University, claiming the stress of improving the law school damaged her mental health ...
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer accused of attempting to extort money from "Riverdance" star Michael Flatley cannot argue that his pret...
Criminal
DA Will Identify Defendants Possibly Affected by Lab Problems
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley said Thursday that he will give defense lawyers a list of drug defendants whose l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Reconstructing a vanished river may take a while - perhaps as long as it takes a tree to grow. But that's the ...
SANTA ANA - The owners of a bar and restaurant patronized by Vietnamese-Americans sued Huntington Beach on Thursday, claiming ...
LOS ANGELES - Did Claudia Merlos, who suffers from a rare form of dwarfism, willfully and intentionally beat her 2-year-old so...
Criminal
Observers Expect Settlement in Civil Rape Case Against Basketball Star
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - On Aug. 17, the day Kobe Bryant's accuser filed a civil lawsuit against the Lakers' star, legal experts knew the...
SACRAMENTO - Before he was appointed to the bench last year by Gov. Gray Davis, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Steve W...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland judge tentatively ruled Thursday that attorneys representing alleged clergy abuse victims across No...