LOS ANGELES - The battle over patients' rights legislation that opened this week in the U.S. Senate could foreshadow the 2004 ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Trademark Law 101, Lesson 1: Before you develop a new product and engage in an expensive marketing blitz, bett...
SAN FRANCISCO - Placing a classified ad on the Internet in order to carry out a fraud constitutes a "mass-marketing" solicita...
SAN FRANCISCO - California's intermediate courts of appeal are the logical place that Gov. Gray Davis would look for someone t...
David J. Duchrow of Los Angeles' Duchrow & Barker reached a $135,000 settlement in a recent wrongful-termination case, ...
Perhaps the most significant step so far was the decision to implement the final regulations on patient privacy protections. ...
A former steel mill summer employee, now a high-flying state, federal and appellate advocate, Jeffrey Davidson fights for the ...
SAN DIEGO - Lawyers for a 15-year-old boy accused of two murders in the Santee high school shootings are asking appellate jus...
The distinction between public services and private contracts should not be so easily blurred by cities simply for economic re...
Steven R. Cerveris is so serious about dispute resolution, he'll play landscape architect, dispense chocolates and do just abo...
How often do most lawyers have dinner with two or three prominent judges? How many times can they say they shared "trade secre...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Pasadena attorney Glenn Edwin Mayfield has died. Mayfield died June 11 of pneumonia and complications of...
SAN FRANCISCO - The former insurance commissioner of Alaska claims two big insurance companies ignored California's state-mand...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran trial lawyer James Scadden and five associates have joined Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, the San F...
LOS ANGELES - Local high-school students said that a Los Angeles Unified School District policy has turned their school into a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Justice Stanley Mosk, a legal giant who served a record 37 years on the California Supreme Court, died unexpec...
Law Practice
Firm Hires Ex-State Bar President To Launch West Coast Expansion
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Boston's Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo has enlisted former California State Bar President Harvey...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental and community activists sued in federal court Tuesday to block the extended operations of a San ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard has recruited most of the attorneys from Knapp Marsh Jones &a...
On the day of Timothy McVeigh's execution, President George W. Bush embarked on a goodwill tour of a continent opposed to the ...
Like all good citizens of the bar, I take seriously my obligation to spend an hour a month learning that things like malpracti...
Never argue with, nor in any way criticize, a juror. ...
LOS ANGELES - O'Melveny & Myers established the Warren Christopher Scholarship in 1993 to honor its former chairman, Warre...
LOS ANGELES - Seven years after the Northridge earthquake toppled structures and cracked building foundations throughout South...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bill Klein remained upbeat, even as his firm, Hopkins & Carley, lost three litigation partners to Coudert...
LOS ANGELES - Brenda Ramos has all the pent-up nervous energy a 16-year-old is supposed to have. She shifts in her seat as she...
SAN JOSE - The judge in the Avanti trade-secrets theft case told the antagonists Monday to get serious about how much restitu...
State Bar & Bar Associations
San Diego Bar Group Elects New President
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Civil litigator Monty A. McIntyre has been elected president of the San Diego County Bar Association for the 2002 ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The city's $20 million effort to divert troubled youths away from incarceration has been a stark failure, acc...
LOS ANGELES - A Supreme Court challenge to the execution of mentally retarded people is converging with a California proposal ...