SAN FRANCISCO - Why the California Supreme Court devotes its precious time to reviewing some cases and not others is often a m...
SAN DIEGO - After a day of deliberating without fresh requests for testimony or exhibits, jurors went home Monday without reac...
Constitutional Law
Church Club At School Has Equal Rights, Circuit Rules
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Student-led religious clubs must be given equal access to the same school resources as non-sectarian student c...
LOS ANGELES - Irv Rubin, head of the Jewish Defense League, may be on the wrong side of the law lately, as he sits in federal ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Creditors in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy case have allowed rival plans for the utility's re...
Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - In just one hour and 42 minutes, manifest U.S. symbols of economic might known all over...
SAN FRANCISCO - Vawter "Buck" Parker wasn't scared when he got the ominously worded letter last fall from a member of Congress...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prison guards forced an Egyptian immigrant, Hady Hassan Omar, to undergo humiliating body searches and...
LOS ANGELES - Services for Irwin N. Bloom of the Los Angeles County district attorney's office will take place today in Inglew...
LOS ANGELES - Lavely & Singer has sued former basketball star and consummate bad boy Dennis Rodman for $193,818.92 in unpa...
Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - In the recent case of Romero v. Romero, 2002 D...
Column by Garry Abrams - A day after last year's Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks comment...
SAN FRANCISCO - In 1999, when a jury ordered the Emeryville Redevelopment Agency to pay more than twice what it offered to own...
LOS ANGELES - As Drinker Biddle & Reath New York managing partner Matther Farley walks past ground zero each morning, his ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Creditors in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy case have allowed rival plans for the utility's reo...
Dicta Column - By Paul O'Brien - Oscar Wilde famously said that the only thing worse than being talked about was not being tal...
SAN FRANCISCO - James Frolik, a San Francisco attorney for more than 50 years, has died after a six-month struggle with leuke...
Phoenix-based Snell & Wilmer has launched a medical devices and pharmaceuticals practice group, the firm announced last mo...
A hot piece of real estate in the San Fernando Valley soon may be in the hands of a new owner. AH Warner Center Properties has...
Column by Eugene C. Moscovitch - Many attorneys and mediators who specialize in employment law are quick to distance themselve...
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich has added yet another chapter to the year-old tale of law firm layoffs. The firm's announceme...
While Lyon & Lyon attorneys were busy moving into Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Los Angeles office last week, Blase...
Litigation
Experienced Litigator Joins Panel At JAMS in Southern California
By Stefanie Knapp
June Lehrman joined the panel of resolution experts in Southern California at JAMS. Lehrman, 43, brings with her a decade of a...
Following two months of intense negotiations, Mountain View software maker Synopsys Inc. has signed an agreement to buy privat...
With her employment litigation practice "going gangbusters," Carroll, Burdick & McDonough's Angela Bradstreet is pleased a...
Litigation
$2 Million Settlement in Rape CaseBodes Well for New Firm
By Joan Osterwalder
David M. Ring of Taylor & Ring didn't take a single deposition in pursuing a sexual assault and negligence lawsuit against...
Most problems have solutions - and the potential for lots of money to be made along the way. Case in point: Sunnyvale's OneSec...
Meet Courtney Weber, the new voice of traditionally tight-lipped Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. If history is any indic...
Litigation
Casey Gerry Partner Will Become Trial Lawyers President in 2003
By Stefanie Knapp
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America named David S. Casey Jr., partner at San Diego's Casey Gerry Reed & Schenk, pr...
Litigation
Workshop Will Focus on Employing Technology in Dispute Resolution
By Stefanie Knapp
The Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service and the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Services will...