Forum Column - By Wendy Young and Christine Gordon - The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee recently held an oversight hearing on t...
Labor/Employment
Court Properly Lets Employee Rights Trump Arbitration Pact
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Forum Column - By Tom Osbourne The Supreme Court's decision in EEOC v. Waffle House Inc. correctly upheld employee righ...
LOS ANGELES - New York-based Stroock & Stroock & Lavan has recruited intellectual property litigator and rainmaker Jam...
WASHINGTON - How badly do you want to argue a case before the Supreme Court? Would you contact the clients in a case set for a...
Corporate
Franchisors Can Rely on Limitations Period in Franchise Investment Law
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^^Corporate Law^^ **with photo** The court in 'Speedee Oil' set some clear guidelines as to just when franchisees' causes of a...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County court interpreters, angry over what they consider shabby treatment by a judge, have been boycott...
Column by Ronald Feenberg - Annually, thousands of California's workers suffer illnesses and injuries on the job that disable ...
Column by Gerald G. Knapton - Many lawyers and clients believe that arbitration is a good idea for at least some cases, if onl...
SAN FRANCISCO - Well, it appears Janice Rogers Brown was right to be suspicious. When she wrote her dissent to Monday's Califo...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Who's at Fault for Nursing Home Closures?
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A plaintiffs lawyer stunned a legislative committee this week by suggesting that the state and federal government...
It was a horrible accident no matter how you look at it, when a husband and wife, their two young sons and the boys' cousin we...
Three day before graduating from law school, Charles B. O'Reilly was sworn in as a member of the California Bar. Three days af...
Garo Mardirossian has come a long way since his days under the hood of a car, helping his father in their family owned auto sh...
Column by Nancy J. Warren - Model Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 2-100 is designed to prevent attorneys from directly comm...
By Ronald J. Klepetar, Jeffrey C. Freedman, Margaret Rosenthal and Steven J. Prough - Wage and hour litigation in California, ...
Judges and Judiciary
Bipartisan Group Suggests Democrat for Federal Bench
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Another Democrat was recommended by the state's bipartisan judicial selection committee for a seat on the U.S. D...
LOS ANGELES - Washington, D.C.'s Steptoe & Johnson has recruited Los Angeles bankruptcy veteran Barry Glaser to fill out i...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services has failed to comply with federal and state la...
Forum Column - By Robert E. Cartwright - The recent article "New Bills Threaten High-Tech" (Fred Main & Chris Micheli, For...
LOS ANGELES - Five attorneys have left the Orange County office of Pillsbury Winthrop to form their own specialty real estate ...
LOS ANGELES - A clearly disturbed San Francisco Superior Court Judge sternly reprimanded one of two defense attorneys for char...
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - The Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement in its preliminary statistics for 2000 ...
Corporate
Financial Expert and Mentor Enjoyed Collecting Art, Learning Ancient Languages
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Ted Obrzut, a corporate lawyer with vast knowledge of financial transactions and w...
LOS ANGELES - Washington, D.C.'s Steptoe & Johnson has recruited Los Angeles bankruptcy veteran Barry Glaser to fill out i...
SAN FRANCISCO - A 33-year veteran of one of the world's largest engineering firms cannot sue for age discrimination just becau...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bolstering its white collar criminal defense practice amid a surge in that field, Gray Cary Ware & Freiden...
SANTA ANA - A deputy prosecutor who lost his bid to unseat District Attorney Tony Rackauckas in Tuesday's primary said he inte...
Criminal
Unusual Obscenity Case Tests Standards for Punishable Porn
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles city attorneys were not just targeting pornography's "bad guys" when they decided to bring obscenity...
LOS ANGELES - A prosecutor said Thursday that he wants to retry a Pasadena pediatric dentist whom a jury acquitted of most cha...
SAN FRANCISCO - Clients shouldn't face default judgments when their lawyers commit gross negligence, a divided panel of the 9t...