Bankruptcy
Judicial Council Taps Bankruptcy Judge for Circuit's Appellate Panel
By John Ryan
The judicial council of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has appointed Erithe A. Smith to its bankruptcy appellate panel, the...
The Judicial Council, the policymaking body of the state courts, said this month it will honor 10 innovative court programs an...
Column - Trial Strategy - By John Cleaves - Trial attorneys, from large defense firms to small plaintiffs' boutiques, are incr...
Litigation
Defending Depositions Will Require Evasion of Pitfalls
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Column - Trial Strategy - By Steven S. Kaufhold - Defending an important deposition can give even the most seasoned litigator ...
Irvine's Rus, Miliband & Smith showed a hardened heart and engaged in "pure overkill" by withdrawing from an insurance bad...
Column - Law Firm Management - By Gerald Knapton And Patti Bentley - E-invoicing by third-party auditing/data processing compa...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Mark L. Eisenhut - In the world of class actions, one new trend is the increase in actions ...
Labor/Employment
Certain Deductions Are Disallowed In Calculation of Incentive Bonuses
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Helene J. Wasserman - Many employers in the retail and hospitality industries provide incen...
Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - One of the low points on the California legal scene in 2003 was the blow dealt the Boy Scou...
SACRAMENTO - Superior Court Judge Jerilyn Borack loves to sail, but being landlocked in the heart of California's food basket ...
LOS ANGELES - Funeral services are scheduled for today for Arne Lindgren, a partner at Latham & Watkins specializing in ta...
LOS ANGELES - For Ted McAniff, it all comes back to the voices: the soaring swell of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, its membe...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Loves Freedom That Fast-Track System Affords
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - Judge Malcolm H. Mackey loves being on the fast track. Having done "just about everything in the court system," ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Other federal circuit courts have their five minutes of fame, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is nev...
SAN FRANCISCO - James Rogan, who has earned praise and criticism since he took the post of director of the U.S. Patent and Tra...
Notebook - By Hudson Sangree - SACRAMENTO - First it's there. Then it's gone. Then it's back. But not for long. So goes the sa...
SAN FRANCISCO - Loretta Lynch sat glumly in the courtroom of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali last week, trying to orchest...
When 2003 began, Los Angeles-based Manatt, Phelps & Phillips had no lawyers in New York City, arguably the co-capital of A...
KINGS COUNTY HANFORD - Just in time to reap the benefits of the holiday bounty, Passco Real Estate Enterprises Inc. has acquir...
Labor/Employment
Right to Privacy Doesn't Cover Intimate Co-Worker Relationship
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Focus Column Employment Law By Dominick C. Capozzola A state Court of Appeal recently upheld the termination of a sales manag...
FORUM A study in the Santa Clara Law Review concludes that California's system is seriously flawed and dangerously unjust. Pa...
By J. Kevin Lilly Lawyers are a lot like other people. When you fire them, they often get angry and frequently sue for wrongf...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arrived like Santa on Christmas Eve for the city of Martinez. In a unan...
FRESNO - An album cover of "Pope John Paul II Sings at the Festival of Sacrosong" adorns the windowsill in the chambers of Co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Steinhart & Falconer, a small but nationally recognized San Francisco business and litigation firm, will ...
WASHINGTON - Seth P. Waxman has had some remarkable experiences at the Supreme Court arguing 37 cases in the last decade. In D...
LOS ANGELES - A 60-acre dirt lot in Inglewood has become the latest front in the fight between the world's largest retailer an...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY WESTLAKE VILLAGE - A 6,616-square-foot area of Westlake Plaza I, the 2801 Townsgate Road business developme...
Big-name oil companies will spend almost $313 million to remove the gasoline additive MTBE from Santa Monica's groundwater und...
SAN FRANCISCO - A retrial of a case that has drawn the attention of the nation's gun makers and their opponents ended in a mis...