Section 6068(e) of the California Business & Professions Code requires lawyers to maintain "inviolate" the confidences and...
Litigation
God Invented the 9th Circuit to Give Hollywood Underdogs a Chance
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs in a trio of discrimination complaints against most of Hollywood's heavy hitters have turned to the 9...
LOS ANGELES - Change moves in mysterious ways. Under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division f...
WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court on Wednesday restored the ability of Legal Services Corp. lawyers to challenge fe...
SAN FRANCISCO - America Online Inc. now will have a chance to explain why an Oakland man fighting the giant Internet service ...
LOS ANGELES - Joe Fernandez was happy to be stuck in traffic on the Harbor Freeway on a dreary day . "It's unbelievable that I...
Large Firms
'A Lot of Bricks Falling' as Seattle Outposts Weather 'Quake
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - A routine teleconferencing meeting for managers at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe turned into a real-time...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mary M. Schroeder, the new chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, says the book that is "easily...
LOS ANGELES - Encouraged by a narrow Supreme Court decision Wednesday, legal aid lawyers from California to Washington, D.C., ...
The construction industry continues to keep full-speed pace with the influx of new residents in Southern California, so it is ...
In Erlich v. Menezes, 21 Cal.4th 543 (1999), the California Supreme Court clarified the rules that emotional distress d...
RIVERSIDE - The Riverside City Council agreed Tuesday to a five-year, legally-binding plan drafted by the state attorney gener...
You can always tell when something new becomes institutionalized - people try to make rules and regulations about it. ...
The time has come to recognize that the parties, courts and insurers can no longer afford the delay in resolving construction ...
How litigators draft case management orders may be the most critical factor in their success at resolving a construction defec...
Construction defect litigators know that the traditional mediation process has become a runaway train, loaded with excessive c...
Southern California neutral John O'Meara wanted to do something constructive with his self-proclaimed "big mouth," so after wo...
LOS ANGELES - Bathed in applause and honored for a job well done, Marilyn DuPies could think only of the face missing from the...
Plaintiffs' attorney Conrado Joe Sayas Jr. could hardly be regarded as smug. In a field of lawyering overpopulated by braggart...
The economic-loss doctrine permeates products liability law, holding that one may not recover pure economic losses, such as a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - An impostor claiming to be legal figure Erin Brockovich has trumpeted support for the recall campaign against ...
Steven G. Zieff, a partner at San Francisco's Rudy, Exelrod, Zieff & True, negotiated a $9.75 million confidential settlem...
As the second anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting approaches in April, school officials, based on tips from stud...
Feeling threatened by proposed legislation and a recent state Supreme Court decision, a group of homeowner rights' advocates l...
Lawyers who dread fighting city hall may be picking the wrong battles. The cards are stacked against city hall for litigators ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles man has sued his insurance company, alleging that agents charged him higher premiums because, as a...
LOS ANGELES - Defense attorneys plan a fresh, appellate-court assault this spring on two key provisions of Proposition 21, a v...
Entertainment & Sports
Busy Merger Market Attracts Law Firms to City of Angels
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The City of Angels. The City of Entertainment. And now, the City of Law Firm Mergers. Some say Los Angeles firms...
Large Firms
MoFo Raid on Brobeck's U.K. Outpost Is a Sign of the Times
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - After years of competing head-to-head for domestic talent, San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster and Brobeck...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners voted Tuesday to tighten controls on Police Department vice operat...