LOS ANGELES - A graphic artist who was fired for questioning her employer's attitude toward homosexuals won a $314,000 verdict...
Forum Column by Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Attorney General John Ashcroft has made a public pitch to dump the guidelines put in p...
Labor/Employment
Rainmakers, In-House Counsel Remain Desirable in Recession
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Employment Column by Robert Major - Rarely does a day pass without someone asking me when the job market will rebound. My answ...
LOS ANGELES - The USA PATRIOT Act and other security-minded measures brought big changes to federal law after Sept. 11, but wh...
SAN FRANCISCO - For most women, juggling a thriving solo civil practice, teaching law school and chasing around a 5-year-old s...
LOS ANGELES - Take the word "leadership" out of the English language, and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo could have a hard tim...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for James Greely Kolts, a former Superior Court judge who came out of retirement ...
Forum Column by Mary L. Topliff - As we embark on 2002, several new laws will go into effect that will significantly impact Ca...
LOS ANGELES - County officials will consider Jan. 8 whether to renew the Los Angeles city attorney's lease of office space at ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned a Kern County double-murder conviction and death sentence, hol...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran Judge James I. Aaron, of Fresno County Superior Court, is the target of formal charges into alleged li...
Employment Law Practitioner Column by Johnny Darnell Griggs - In Swenson v. Potter, 2000 U.S.App.Lexis 25902 (9th Cir. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Davis Makes Six Appointments To District and Superior Courts
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LOS ANGELES - In a flurry of holiday appointments, Gov. Gray Davis has elevated Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard D. ...
Forum Column by Fred Silberberg - It is not uncommon in family law cases to require parties to undergo vocational evaluations....
Forum Column by David A. Rosen - The essential synergy between workers' compensation benefits and third-party liability is dec...
VIEWPOINT By David D. Kadue Donald C. Potter In this second in a three-part series on deposition skills, the authors address ...
LOS ANGELES - Though 2001 brought a recession that forced California law firms to fire an unprecedented number of lawyers, the...
LOS ANGELES - The dragging economy of 2001 did little to slow the flurry of activity among California law firms - and, in many...
LOS ANGELES - Large-firm lawyers took three giant steps back in 2001. "The last three years of growth were recaptured in one y...
Forum Column by Cary L. Schatz - The Department of Justice's recently enacted regulation allowing the monitoring of conversati...
SAN JOSE - Last week's trial of trainer Mark Gebel for alleged elephant abuse provided animal rights activists with a major me...
SAN FRANCISCO - The fine balance between an arresting officer's privacy interests and a criminal defendant's right to learn re...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's been only two months since Teveia Rose Barnes moved into the corner office that her predecessor, Drucilla...
LOS ANGELES - William R. Hollingsworth, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge sitting on assignment in Torrance, has a re...
SAN FRANCISCO - The annual report for the U.S. attorney's office in Northern California shows that the number of criminal case...
Transactional Law Practitioner Column by Robert C. Barnes - As most transactional attorneys know, Article 9 of the Uniform Com...
SACRAMENTO - Sacramento's largest law firm, Downey Brand Seymour & Rohwer, has named litigator Stephen J. Meyer as its new...
LOS ANGELES - For the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, 2001 was the year of Steve Cooley. The veteran prosecutor...
SACRAMENTO- Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, named Friday as the first female dean of McGeorge School of Law, said international la...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Aurelio Munoz is the last of a retiring breed. Of 25 judges selected in 1988 to pioneer the Fast Track pro...