SAN FRANCISCO - When a Stockton judge tentatively approved a large national settlement in a consumer fraud class action last f...
Last month's American Bar Association annual convention attracted 15,000 lawyers, judges and guests to the city for five days ...
Law Practice
Giving Legal Advice Via E-Mail May Result in Loss of Privilege
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Norma G. Formanek - In 1999, the American Bar Association ethics committee settled a long-stand...
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Many articles have been written about what goes onto a winning résumé but not a l...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - The state Supreme Court recently approved a settlement between Southern California Ediso...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Jailed Newsmen for Confidential Source
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Services have taken place for U.S. Magistrate Judge Hollis G. Best, a respected jurist who gained notoriety in the...
SAN FRANCISCO - John M. Forney, the former Enron manager who allegedly designed such power-trading schemes as "Death Star," ha...
LOS ANGELES - Facing a $5 million budget shortfall, the district attorney's office is contemplating deep cutbacks in its speci...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Thursday ordered the postponement of a hearing set for today at which prosecutors were goi...
Technology & Science
AMD Prevails In Jury Trial Over Claim of Religious Bias
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A federal jury Thursday cleared Advanced Micro Devices of discriminating against a high-level executive who claimed...
Corporate
Reporter's Notebook: Valley Survivor Gunderson Prizes 'Grubs' and Independence
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - It's easy to play the guessing game in Silicon Valley, where conversations about the demise of formerly presti...
LOS ANGELES - An appeals court Thursday reversed a San Fernando Valley man's robbery conviction, saying his defense lawyer, wh...
Judges and Judiciary
Majority of High-Court Clerks Take Indirect Routes to Posts
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - For the second straight term, a majority of the Supreme Court law clerks have taken a nontraditional route to the...
Forum Column - By Ali Batmanghelidj - As the morning sun broke through the heavens, the ghastly sounds of collapsing steel and...
Labor/Employment
Background Checks Are a Must for Employers Evaluating Potential Hires
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Barry D. Kellman - If one subscribes to the theory that having more data contributes to mak...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - In Rivera v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.(Amtrak) , 200...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis announced his appointment Wednesday of a doctor and a businessman to the State Bar Board of Gove...
SAN JOSE - San Benito County District Attorney John Sarsfield said Wednesday that his predecessor failed to disclose possibly ...
SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers have failed in a late legislative attempt to give health care providers the right to assert liens t...
LOS ANGELES - Media lawyers are expected to appeal today a judge's order sealing his decision on whether to turn over to prose...
SANTA ANA - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the city of Anaheim and three of its police officers ma...
Judges and Judiciary
Prosecutor Remains in Family, Rises to Commissioner
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A woman recently tried to get Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Nicholas D. Taubert to force her former hu...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Roman Catholic priest Michael Wempe, who walked out of jail this summer after the U.S. Supreme Court gut...
Solo and Small Firms
VLG & Heller To Merge, But Will All Partners Want to Go?
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - The partners of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe and Venture Law Group have approved the firms' merger, but...
Intellectual Property
Lawsuits Point to Double-Cheeseburger of Intellectual-Property Abuse
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - As you probably know by now, I like to live dangerously and litigiously. So, for a cheap thrill, I'm ...
Constitutional Law
9th: Federal Law Banning Child Porn Is Constitutional
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Congress can criminalize the private possession of commercial child pornography, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A...
SAN FRANCISCO - The legal community's bid to aid victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks took sharply divergent paths starti...
WASHINGTON - Before Monday's historic arguments over the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, most...
LOS ANGELES - Several months after her appointment to the bench, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Anne H. Egerton faced a daun...
Forum Column - By Robert DeKoven - A bill in the state Legislature (AB1012) would require school officials, with certain excep...