A Santa Ana federal jury handed $1.9 million recently to a widow who says her business partner cut her out of their music-publ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Credence OKs $660 Million To Acquire IPO-Rich NPTest
By Toni Vranjes
It's been a busy year for San Jose technology company NPTest Holding Corp. NPTest, a former unit of oil field services company...
After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, music and video retailer Tower Records is hoping its trip through court wil...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Bartering Lets Cash-Poor Clients Pay Their Lawyers
By Dan Evans
LOS ANGELES - A custom suit. Massage therapy. Free drinks. Teeth cleanings. Bags of cash. These are just a few of the ways Sou...
Column - Employment Law - By Steven M. Schneider - California firms generally go about their daily business of practicing law ...
Immigration lawyers crammed last month to get H1B visa petitions, reserved for highly skilled professionals in a variety of fi...
With Donna Melby's installation ceremony dubbed the Presidents' Dinner Dance, attendees at the Los Angeles Chapter of the Amer...
Ralph Alldredge didn't follow his partners at Legal Strategies Group to Townsend and Townsend and Crew, which absorbed most of...
Law Practice
Lawyers, Activists Combine Oscar Viewing, Fund-Raising
By Jordan Elgrably
While ostensibly a billion people sat glued to the Oscars on leap-year Sunday - either loving or hating Hollywood's glamour an...
SAN FRANCISCO - If San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom wins the authority to interpret the Constitution as he sees fit, what next...
When Pillsbury Winthrop attorneys Nate Cartmell and Brad Kohn helped billionaire Phil Anschutz acquire the San Francisco Exami...
Column - Malicious Prosecution - By Susan Page White - When people are sued, they typically are relieved if their insurer pote...
Yeda Research and Development Company Ltd. won a summary judgment in federal court recently in a patent infringement case file...
Bank of America agreed this month to a $33 million settlement for a class action brought by 2,600 beneficiaries of trust accou...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Jeffrey Brill - The patent statute includes an often misunderstood requirement that a patent sp...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The war against world hunger is facing a major battle in this country, as the Bush adminis...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Julia Lapis Blakeslee - Most people assume that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act pr...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marvin Lager has told lawyers in the massive Southern California clergy sexual ...
LOS ANGELES - Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund took up an invitation from the state Supreme Court Friday and filed a di...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge ruled Friday that Justin Helzer, the younger of two brothers charged in a series of gruesome Bay Area ...
Appellate Practice
Panel Lifts Restraining Order Against Superior Court Jurist
By Jory Farr
LOS ANGELES - A restraining order issued against a Los Angeles Superior Court judge who allegedly threatened to kill a man he ...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Eron Ben-Yehuda - What surgery is to the patient, litigation is to the client. So says profes...
Judges and Judiciary
Former Orange County Judge Faces Felony Drunken-Driving Charges
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - A former presiding judge of Orange County, who severely injured a motorcyclist during a collision last December, n...
Judges and Judiciary
Kids Come First for L.A. Judge Who Runs a Family Law Court
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marjorie Steinberg admits she's guilty of one bias. In her family law courtroom...
SAN DIEGO - A jury has awarded the San Diego Unified Port District $21.3 million in back rent and demolition costs that a form...
Forum Column - By Michael L. Mallow and Matthew G. Ball - California courts might finally be bringing fairness to California's...
LOS ANGELES - In August, Shearman & Sterling, one of the most prominent law firms in the United States, took what many leg...
SAN FRANCISCO - In an unusual move, attorneys for two of three men charged with assault in the infamous police Fajitagate case...
Forum Column - By Michael Rushford - Last weekend California marked the 10-year anniversary of its adoption of the toughest ha...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediators Could Face Suits Over Confidentiality Issues
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Focus Column - Legal Ethics - By Jeff Kichaven - As mediation becomes a more significant commercial enterprise, more litigatio...