Better Choice
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Chris Ford - It is news to practically no one that Gov. Gray Davis holds little promise for Californians who...
Actress, Jurors Watch Store Video
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Winona Ryder spent part of her 31st birthday in a Beverly Hills courtroom yesterday watching a Saks Fifth Avenue...
Tax Treatment of Remediation Costs Depends on Many Factors
By Columnist
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Boyd D. Hudson and Robert A. Yahiro - The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and ...
Advocates Race to Free Women
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - She has been in the California Institution for Women since 1988, when she was sentenced to life without parole f...
Actress, Jurors Watch Store Video
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Winona Ryder spent part of her 31st birthday in a Beverly Hills courtroom yesterday watching a Saks Fifth Avenue...
Judge Halts Federal Seismic Project That Disrupts Whales
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A grisly discovery last month by a group of vacationing scientists helped trigger a court-ordered halt Monday ...
The Other Side of the Bench
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Oscar Lee Morris has emerged a free man from San Quentin's death row. That leaves him at liberty to plague his...
Jurist Stops Project Using Air Guns
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A grisly discovery last month by a group of vacationing whale scientists helped trigger a court-ordered halt M...
Braun Quits Blake's Defense Team
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Harland Braun announced Monday he was quitting Robert Blake's criminal defense team because the actor h...
MacLaren Struggles to Survive
By Cheryl Romo
It is the dumping ground. A place of last resort for troubled children no one else wants. A place where a "code of silence" i...
Videotape Shows Suspect Sobbing, Shrieking
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Kristin M. Rossum sobbed hysterically and told detectives that just because she wanted out of her marriage didn't ...
Franchisor Can Make Renewal Contingent on New Conditions
By Columnist
Focus Column - Franchise Law - By Mitchell S. Shapiro - Most franchise agreements provide the franchisee with a right of renew...
With God, the Angels and Bratton, L.A.'s Future Is Way Too Bright
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - In the city that inspired noir film and fiction and that spawned the all-too-real Rampart police scan...
Patent Defense Criticized for Harm to Poor Countries
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property owners aren't particularly popular these days. Increasingly, copyright, patent and trade...
Employers Can't Be Sued for Clients' Acts
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - California employers cannot be sued under the Fair Employment and Housing Act when their customers or clients se...
Grand Dame of Bench in State Out-Served All
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Justice Mildred L. Lillie, the grand dame of the California bench and the longest-serving judge in the history o...
Candidate Can Run As DA/Law Professor
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Bar Association has decided that judicial candidate Craig Renetzky can run with the ballo...
Still Counting
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Dave Gilliard - Does allowing people to register to vote on Election Day, without providing any official ID,...
Shackles Were Unfair, Appellate Court Rules
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Disagreeing with California courts, a federal appellate court ruled Monday that seeing a Riverside County murder...
S.F. Prosecutor's Daughter Testifies
By Robert Selna
SAN RAFAEL - A San Francisco prosecutor's daughter testified Monday that she lied during earlier hearings and omitted informat...
Franchisor Can Make Renewal Contingent on New Conditions
By Columnist
Focus Column - Franchise Law - Most franchise agreements provide the franchisee with a right of renewal. But few allow renewal...
Still Counting
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Chip Nielsen and Lance Olson - Election experts predict Proposition 52 will increase voter turnout in Califo...
Still Counting
By Columnist
Forumn Column - By Dave Gilliard - Does allowing people to register to vote on Election Day, without providing any official ID...
Ervin Cohen Lawyer Writes of Diamonds' Ugly Facet
By Stefanie Knapp
The advertisements want you to believe that diamonds are beautiful, but as Nicolas Kublicki shows in his new novel, the diamon...
ING Unit Buying Crow Holdings' Industrial Property Portfolio
By Wire
BY DEAN STARKMAN Dow Jones Newswires The U.S. real estate investment-management business of ING Group NV of the Netherlands h...
Chastised Honda Settles Rollover Case
By Joan Osterwalder
Sarah Davis' trial against American Honda Motors Co. took an unexpected turn. The quadriplegic sued Honda for causing her crip...
District Judge Wins Maynard Toll Award From Legal Aid Foundation
By Staff Writer
The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles will present federal Judge Dickran Tevrizian of the U.S. District Court for the Centra...
Merger Talks End for Pennie & Edmonds
By Liz Valsamis
With merger mania and law firm economics, it's often here today, gone tomorrow. That seems to be the case in the latest round ...
Conference Will Target Toxic Mold, Welcome Author of Protection Act
By Staff Writer
Lorman Education Services will sponsor a daylong conference on toxic mold Nov. 7 at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa...
IXI Mobile Obtains $15 Million in New Round of Funding
By Toni Vranjes
Palo Alto's IXI Mobile Inc., which develops software that enables cutting-edge wireless devices to interact, has raised $15 mi...