Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael J. Kump - The controversial new amendments to California's summary judgment statute wil...
LANCASTER - The approach of winter comes with barely a notice in most parts of Southern California. In high-desert communities...
SAN FRANCISCO - Utilities won some protection from Unfair Competition Law claims Monday when a state appellate court threw ou...
SACRAMENTO - One in four Californians now lives under the jurisdiction of a homeowners association, and as these housing deve...
LOS ANGELES - The two founders of what is now known as Tenet Healthcare Corp. are taking the nation's second-largest hospital ...
SAN FRANCISCO - California officials must be given a voice in whether the life of offshore oil drilling leases will be extend...
Communications
Libel Case Shows Reporters Should Trust No One, Especially Each Other
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - LOS ANGELES - A tabloid-reporter-turned-law-student has filed a libel suit against another journalist...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court surprised some legal observers Monday by agreeing to review its own landmark rulings on tw...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Monday agreed to consider whether a 1994 California law giving childhood victims of sexual abus...
The University of Florida edged out Syracuse University College of Law to win Loyola Law School's inaugural National Civil Tri...
Litigation
Families Settle for $6 Million In Construction-Death Case
By Joan Osterwalder
The accidental deaths of two construction workers were not in vain because they brought about reform at the workplace, their a...
Wide-ranging business interests have piled on the amicus briefs in a California Supreme Court case scheduled for oral argument...
Chicago's Altheimer & Gray said it had big plans for San Francisco when it opened an office there in September with two pa...
Two bar associations in San Francisco's East Bay moved their meeting places this year, and both are announcing the event with ...
Barbie is proving to be a tough broad who won't go down without a fight. Mattel, the doll's manufacturer, proved it is not rea...
Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has hired away the head of the employment group at Santa Barbara's Hatch ...
Back in the day, Bobby Caron could look down on the laborers toiling in the strawberry fields of southwest Ventura County from...
Just because intellectual property issues are going to trial more often these days doesn't mean the patent process -the granti...
Pillsbury Winthrop is the latest California firm to win the lottery for talented white-collar defense lawyers. David Anderson,...
Column By George Dale - SB800, also known as the Fix-It Bill, changes the way construction defect disputes are handled for hom...
National fraternity Pi Kappa Phi has reached a settlement with the parents of a Chico State pledge who died during a chapter i...
Litigation
Prosecutor In S.F. Will Become Bench Officer in Alameda County
By Staff Writer
After 12 years as a San Francisco prosecutor, Rhonda Burgess is headed to her home county as an Alameda County Superior Court...
Salaries are down, bonuses are up and total compensation is higher for the nation's in-house attorneys, according to the 2003 ...
Put together two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun and you have yourself ...
In a wrongful-death action, are the parents of the deceased entitled to recover damages based on their loss of future grandchi...
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue managing partner Patrick F. McCartan has tapped Stephan J. Brogan to be his successor as managi...
Management Column By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - Law firms often struggle with hiring decisions. When a firm generates new bu...
Litigation
State-Court Supervising Judge Jumps to Federal District Seat
By Staff Writer
Following testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gary Klausner was confirmed to th...
Litigation
Superior Court In L.A. Chooses Two Commissioners for Vacancies
By Staff Writer
After facing two runoffs in the last six months, Guillermina Byrne has been elected by the Los Angeles Superior Court judges t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A female Boalt Hall law student woke from a drunken sleep to find the school's dean, John P. Dwyer, sexually ...