SAN JOSE - The departures of high-level officials at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reflect continuing instability at t...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Local Bar Leaders Table Plans for a Voluntary Bar
By Don De Benedictis
MONTEREY - The group of local bar leaders who have struggled for months to design a statewide voluntary bar association to fi...
Judges and Judiciary
Ito Removed From Suspended Lawyer's Murder Trial
By Michael Harris
Prosecutors have filed an affidavit of prejudice against Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lance Ito, prompting his unconteste...
Late last month, eBay, a San Jose-based Internet auction company, went public. Its shares were priced at $18, but at one poin...
SANTA ANA - The votes are in, and Orange County Superior Court's presiding and assistant presiding judges have been selected....
WESTMINSTER - Deputy District Attorney Sonia Balleste was concerned. She arrived at work Tuesday morning and was going throug...
WASHINGTON - A deal worked out last week between the White House and the Senate Republican leadership may lead to a rash of j...
Intellectual Property
Justices to Consider Rights to Sue Employers Despite Arbitration Pacts
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Labor and business will be going to the mat before the Supreme Court this week on whether workers covered by col...
SAN JOSE - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati of Palo Alto, which specializes in offering legal assistance to Silicon Valle...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Poll: Lawyers Want the Right to Elect Board
By Don J. De Benedictis
California lawyers overwhelmingly believe they should keep the right to elect most of the members of the State Bar Board of G...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Riverside President Sees Local Bar Responding to New Duties
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - As newly installed president of the Riverside County Bar Association, Diane Catran Roth has clearly defined goals...
^^The Paper Chase / Michael Ueda^^ Scheduled to open later this month, Concord University School of Law, based in the Westwood...
Last year, Los Angeles resident Adrian G. Ready was shocked to find that he was dead. And in the eyes of the Social Security ...
Los Angeles County court officials said Thursday that despite District Attorney Gil Garcetti's call for the implementation of...
Litigation
Plaintiff, First Attacked by Shark, Meets Match in Defense Lawyer
By Anna Marie Stolley
Neither guppy nor goldfish, it was, in fact, a thrashing lemon shark that left Steven Rosenbloom hospitalized for three days....
In a world where people often look for others to blame for their troubles, the story of a father of two who is suing his form...
Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn and Attorney General Dan Lungren took a fight public Thursday over Hahn's lawsuit aga...
SACRAMENTO - Siding with the business community, Gov. Pete Wilson has vetoed a sweeping civil rights bill that would have expa...
Restaurants in Los Angeles County have been on the front burner recently because of the controversy over cleanliness in the ki...
SAN DIEGO - Former deputy district attorney James Fitzpatrick, whose termination for misconduct from the district attorney's ...
SANTA ANA --- A new fast-track civil trial system has been a great success in getting cases to trial faster, according to a s...
Garage.com is a very '90's, very Silicon Valley version of "The Dating Game." The Web site, brainchild of Venture Law Group f...
WASHINGTON - Taking a slap at the Clinton administration and a possible preemptive strike at future White Houses, the Senate ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Clients Skunked, But Not by Him, Girardi Claims
By Denise Levin
Plaintiffs' attorney Thomas V. Girardi, lauded by colleagues and feared by adversaries for his knack of winning multimillion-...
SACRAMENTO - The sexual assault and murder of a 76-year-old woman. The rape of a pregnant woman resulting in the death of her...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Purges Republican Critic From Governors
By Don De Benedictis
The State Bar of California suddenly and unexpectedly removed a persistent Republican critic from its Board of Governors last...
On Monday, Los Angeles County's Claims Board forwarded $974,000 in lawsuit settlements to the Board of Supervisors for cases ...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A convicted felon accused of conspiring with a trash-company executive to subvert opposition to the Rail-C...
SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County Bar Association's survey of judges' performance, long disliked by members of the local benc...
SAN FRANCISCO - It was originally supposed to take just two weeks. Instead, it's taken six months to get from opening stateme...