Barry Langberg, Five Others Join Stroock Firm
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent entertainment attorney Barry B. Langberg has joined the Los Angeles office of New York-based Stroock...
Dispute Resolution Leaders Exit Leaves Bar at Crossroads
By Tom Orewyler
If there was ever a dispute that was suitable for mediation, it would seem to be the simmering controversy between Lauren Bur...
Karma Returns to Homeless Man, Courtesy of a Lawyers Largesse
By Amy Bourne
SAN FRANCISCO - The story of a sick dog and its homeless owner has come to a cheery, if unexpected, conclusion thanks to a ki...
Riverside DA Defends Speech Suit
By Matthew Heller
RIVERSIDE - In a sense, Patrick F. Dutton is Exhibit A in his discrimination case against his former bosses in the Riverside ...
Unification Panel Accused of Bias, Lack of Balance
By Denise Levin
The Los Angeles Superior Court judges' committee on unification produced a biased report to entice colleagues to vote against...
Chief Justice Opens the File On Nominees
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing his effort to open up the judicial branch to public scrutiny, Chief Justice Ronald M. George announ...
Tax Dispute Mars Gift to Colleges
By Denise Levin
The county of Los Angeles and two attorneys and their firms, including Bryan Cave, have been sued by the Regents of the Unive...
Court Decision May Open Floodgates in Valley
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to duck a lingering Central Valley environmental battle means part of ...
Federal Express Accused of Selective Routing
By Denise Levin
A package sent via Federal Express to a recipient who lives in a mostly minority neighborhood was rerouted to a narcotics off...
San Diego Judge to Lead New Judicial Order
By Jean Guccione
San Diego Judge David J. Danielsen says he wants to better define the California Judges Association's role in what he called ...
County to Pay $1.3M for Altered Records
By Lauren Blau
Medical records in a case settled Tuesday by Los Angeles County for nearly $1.3 million were altered by medical personnel, ac...
Tort Theorists Talk 'Guns and Bombs'
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The horrific scenario is familiar: A child obtains a handgun and blasts away. But how should the law deal wit...
Courts Advisor to Assess L.A. County's Needs
By Lauren Blau
Nearly a year after a recommendation from the state auditor, Los Angeles County is planning to conduct a needs assessment for...
Pro Bono Isn't On the Rise for S.D. Lawyers
By Kenneth Rutman
SAN DIEGO - While pro bono efforts to help the less fortunate appear to be on the rise across the country, in San Diego the n...
Trial and Error
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - It would be understandable if California's plaintiffs' bar was imbued with a giddy optimism, given its early leg...
Holocaust Bill Progresses in State Senate
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill that would make it easier for people force...
Riverside Cops Sued for Millers Death
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Lawyers for the family of Tyisha Miller filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Riverside and fi...
Deaths of 45 Children Bring A Plea for Greater Unification
By Cheryl Romo
On average, one child a week is killed by a care-giver in Los Angeles County. And District Attorney Gil Garcetti, the chairma...
Trial of Day-Care Provider in Toddlers Death Under Way
By Leonard Navarro
SAN DIEGO - Whether the death of 13-month-old Christopher Evan Oliver Smith resulted from something that happened at his day ...
County May Settle Overturned Conviction
By Lauren Blau
Consideration of a proposed $500,000 settlement of a lawsuit filed by an executive who spent nine years in jail for allegedly...
O'Connor Speaks Out On Juries, Racial Bias
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Citing "serious problems" with the jury system in America and with minority perceptions of the justice system, U...
Funding Approved for New City Attorney Programs
By Lauren Blau
A $4.2 billion budget for fiscal 1999-2000 approved Monday by the Los Angeles City Council includes funding for City Attorney...
Plea Caps Auto Fraud Saga
By Michael Harris
In a settlement Los Angeles prosecutors hope will serve as a warning to other lawyers engaged in insurance fraud, suspended at...
Court Finds Lonis Nemesis Lacks Appeal
By Anna Marie Stolley
A state appeal panel held late Monday that a woman who paired up with actress Loni Anderson to sell skin care products throug...
Californias Welfare Scheme Held to Violate Travel Right
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Dealing a blow to the welfare-reform movement in a case from California, the Supreme Court ruled, 7-2, Monday th...
Budget Plan Denies Judges a Pay Increase
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - The judiciary would get 12 new appeal court judges and 20 new trial court jurists, and $19.1 million to fix year...
Appellate Judge Delays Probe Into O.C. Counseling Center
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LAGUNA NIGUEL - A state court of appeals judge granted a partial stay Friday in the case of Center for Creative Alternatives,...
Lawyer: Client Did Not Threaten Judge
By Martin Bergn
Denying federal prosecutors' allegations that he threatened the life of a federal judge, a Beverly Hills lawyer charged with ...
DA Will Retry Couple in Childs Starving Death
By Michael Harris
Despite a jury that deadlocked overwhelmingly in favor of acquittal, prosecutors have announced they intend to retry an Antel...
Convicted Ex-Prosecutor Denied Proof of Rehabilitation
By Michael Harris
A San Bernardino County judge has refused to issue a certificate of rehabilitation for a former Los Angeles County prosecutor...