Settlement Leaves Both Sides Happy In 'Adaptec' Suit
By Joan Osterwalder
By Joan Osterwalder At the close of a recent settlement in a breach of contract case, both parties were happy - even the one ...
'Whipple' Affects Dog-Bite Cases, Some Lawyers Say
By Eron Yehuda
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Jurors may be holding dog owners on a tighter leash after the intense media attention over the Diane Whipp...
Cartoonist-Lawyer Draws on Love of the Art
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Stuart M. Rees lives in a cartoon world. The honors graduate of Harvard Law School has 100 cartoonist clients, amo...
Justices Give Murder Defendant New Trial
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Wednesday reversed a Los Angeles man's murder conviction, saying the trial court should ha...
College Pitcher Can Sue Maker of Bat
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A California State University Northridge pitcher can press his suit against the makers of the "Air Attack 2," a ...
O'Melveny & Myers Opens Outpost in Beijing
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - In response to the rapid growth of the firm's Asia practice, Los Angeles-based O'Melveny & Myers has opened ...
Award Honors Lawyer for Devotion, Integrity
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - It didn't matter how hectic his day was, how many appointments filled his book or how many mounds of paperwork clu...
What Should Employers Do When a Job Applicant Lies?
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin - What does an employer do when an applicant lies during an interview? Consider this ...
Jury Indicts Author of Tax-Avoidance Books
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - A popular author of books on moving money offshore to avoid taxes and his attorney were indicted Thursday for al...
MoFo Marketing Chief Leaves Firm
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Carl Whitaker, a pioneer in the legal marketing field, has stepped down as chief marketing officer for San Fra...
DOJ Backs Off Controversial Immigration Plan
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Government officials announced Thursday that they are backing off of a controversial program in which hundreds o...
Delgadillo Seeks New Anti-Gang Injunction
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo took on another gang Thursday, seeking what he said was the largest-e...
High Court Agrees to Weigh Scout Membership
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Under mounting pressure from bar groups, the California Supreme Court announced Thursday it will study propos...
Statute Offers Banks a Defense For Cashing of Forged Checks
By Columnist
Focus Column - Banking Law - By Raymond J. Tittmann - The American Civil Liberties Union has issued privacy warnings concernin...
Street Smarts, Bench Smarts
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A lack of formal legal training can make jurors feel as if lawyers and judges are speaking a foreign language....
Lawyer Loses Bid to Vote in Bar Elections
By Don De Benedictis
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge Thursday rejected a claim by a lawyer who practices in Arizona but is also admitted in California that...
Lesson in Equality
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Few issues are more controversial or divisive than affirmative action. Opponents of affi...
Court Lays Off Guardian Of Its Past
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Griffith is history. The only historian for a federal district court in the country has lost his job ...
Court Is a Gentler, Kinder Place Without Chief's Looming Presence
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - What a difference a justice makes. Especially if it's Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. The chief was missing f...
Others' Noncompete Pacts Ruled Off-Limits
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - High-tech workers and others had better think twice about breaking job contracts in other states to come work ...
Ex-Disney Executive Jumps Firms
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Former vice chair of Walt Disney Co. Sanford "Sandy" Litvack is leaving Dewey Ballantine a year after joining t...
Wine Label Should be Read Carefully After DCA Ruling
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Napa Ridge zinfandel hasn't been made in Napa County for almost three years, but state regulators can't order...
Providing Equal Justice for Voiceless
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky, Daniel Grunfeld and David Lash - "Equal justice under law" may be carved into the granite...
Judge Will Determine If Defendant Is Retarded
By Jeffrey Anderson
TULARE - A Tulare County judge ruled Wednesday that a defendant charged in the drive-by shooting death of a man in Lindsay wil...
Death Suits Arising From Dog Mauling Are Settled
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Two women who sued for wrongful death after Diane Whipple was mauled to death by giant dogs in her Pacific He...
Jurist Cut Teeth on 'Perry Mason'
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - When Los Angeles Superior Court Judge H. Chester Horn Jr. was a boy growing up in Pasadena, he'd sit glued to hi...
U.S. Trustee Loses Job Appeal
By Riley Guerin
SAN FRANCISCO - The outspoken chief bankruptcy watchdog in San Francisco, who was abruptly fired in June by U.S. Attorney Gen...
Front-Row Seat at the Rerun
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - After two decades as an appellate justice, Marc Poché was supposed to be spending his days in retirement fishing an...
INS Detains Hundreds of Middle East Nationals
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - While people were herded into a room, scared and crying, and led away in handcuffs on one side of the downtown L...
Makers of Component Parts Are Subject to Strict Liability
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michael A. Geibelson and David Martinez - The California Supreme Court has held that manufacturers of defect...