Appellate Practice
Appellate Court Orders Value of Priest Claims Indefinitely Sealed
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - In a move called shocking and unconscionable by attorneys for the media and alleged victims of clergy abuse, an ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Over the years, the relationship between the management of the Squaw Valley ski resort and state environmental...
LOS ANGELES - A woman who stabbed her husband to death at an Air Force base in Turkey said in federal court Tuesday that she a...
MONTEREY - A federal budget freeze could force hundreds of layoffs in courts around the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals duri...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Stuart Miller - Parties subjected to criminal, civil or administrative enforcement actions some...
Forum Column - By Saul Landau and Farrah Hassen - In 1928, Justice Louis D. Brandeis, in Olmstead v. United States, cal...
Personal Injury & Torts
Trial Lawyers Like Edwards Offer Leadership America Needs
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Forum Column - By Bruce Brusavich - According to Republicans, one could presume that the Democratic presidential ticket of Sen...
LOS ANGELES - Bruce M. Stiglitz, an entertainment tax attorney and partner with Loeb & Loeb, died July 14 in Beverly Hills...
LOS ANGELES - An African-American medical researcher has settled a decade-old racial discrimination claim against UCLA Medical...
SANTA ANA - In a ruling that expands mental health workers' legal duties, a state appeals court has ruled that therapists have...
SAN JOSE - The attorney representing Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser said Monday he is confident that h...
SAN FRANCISCO - A member of a Marin County lawyers group Monday disavowed the findings of a survey the organization commission...
SAN FRANCISCO - An undocumented Guatemalan immigrant who built her life around her children in Los Angeles should get another ...
Column By Garry Abrams - Angry federal prosecutors decided Monday to seek the death penalty against domestic arts tycoon Marth...
LOS ANGELES - Layoffs to close a $10 million budget gap at the state Department of Justice could fall disproportionately on th...
SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said Monday that Assemblyman Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, had agreed t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Desperate for new revenue, San Francisco is reaching for the pockets of law firm partners. The Board of Superv...
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp.'s aggressive trademark defense against a small San Diego startup appeared to backfire Monday, ...
LOS ANGELES - It's back to the drawing board for a $300 million busway under construction in the San Fernando Valley, after a ...
LOS ANGELES - Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, the American Medical Association, Mexico and an array of nations, child welfare...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Fast-Growing Ceradyne Will Buy Supplier ESK Ceramics
By Megan Thorpe
Ceradyne Inc. announced July 1 that it will pay $136 million for ESK Ceramics, a Germany-based industrial technical ceramic ma...
The Rialto police chief's policy of favoring African-American police officers has resulted in a "mass exodus" of highly qualif...
San Jose-based networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. has announced plans to scoop up part of one company and the remaining 83 pe...
Jung Hwa Jung can't express her feelings about her husband of 15 years. She suffered severe brain damage a decade ago because ...
LOS ANGELES - Justice Norman L. Epstein had practiced only civil law when Gov. Jerry Brown appointed him to the bench in 1975....
An attorney who advertises in the alternative newspaper L.A. Weekly has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the publication, ch...
Jeffrey Lederman says he endured many sleepless night worrying about his friends and colleagues at East Palo Alto's Gray, Cary...
M. Manuel Fishman began his 22-year real estate career at big firms, first with San Francisco's Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro...
Entertainment & Sports
MoFo Teams Up to Aid Beijing-Games Host Broadcaster
By Megan Thorpe
Sports aficionados glued to their radios and television screens for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can thank the behind-the-sc...
Washington, D.C.-based Piper Rudnick kicked off its European expansion efforts by attracting 16 attorneys from the affiliate P...