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
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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...
Labor/Employment
Employer Is Strictly Liable for Supervisor's Sexual Demands
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Anthony J. Oncidi - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has taken a significant step towa...
Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - Among the cases pending at the end of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2002-03 term was one expe...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill Tuesday that would notify the public of planned trial court fund transfers, enablin...
SAN FRANCISCO - A jury saddled a San Francisco man with a second strike Tuesday as it convicted him of first-degree burglary f...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Tuesday refused to overturn a $3.5 million verdict from a jury that found the...
LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles attorneys charged with swindling the City of Hope cancer research and treatment center in Duarte...
LOS ANGELES - The Hispanic National Bar Association named City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo its attorney of the year at the group...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Exam's Conflict With Jewish Holiday Stirs Debate
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A quiet dispute is growing in many states, including California, over a July 2004 Bar Examination date, which fa...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Circuit Grants Leasing Firms Status to File Antitrust Suits
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a federal appeals court expanded antitrust protections Tuesday to cover a customer who buy...
SAN FRANCISCO - At age 18, John Tennison appeared to be doomed to spend the rest of his life in prison. San Francisco prosecut...
Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rappattoni - Todd Spitzer strikes some as an ambitious, energetic lawyer and lawmaker with an e...
Latham & Watkins has lured to its Los Angeles office one of the leaders of Morrison & Foerster's real estate practice...