Consumer Advocates Seek Prop. 103 Compliance
By Lauren Blau
A coalition of consumer advocacy groups and elected officials asked Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush Tuesday to enfor...
City Council Approves $215,000 in Police Assault
By Lauren Blau
The Los Angeles City Council approved a $215,000 settlement to resolve a lawsuit filed by a woman who claims she was falsely ...
Courthouse Construction Cut-Off Bill Advances
By Lauren Blau
Los Angeles County would not be able to spend money to build new courthouses until it completes a needs assessment under legi...
Paradise Lost
By Denise Levin
Some of them sighed animatedly; others grumbled and shook their heads. One walked out of the court hearing in disgust, mumbli...
O.C. Lawyers Offer Court-Affiliated Mediation
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA - The Court Affiliated Civil Mediation Program was in the planning stages for about two years and finally took off i...
Case Tests Right Of Corporate Counsel to Fees
By Vivien Lou Chen
SAN FRANCISCO - No one disputes the fact that Eric B. Simon was the prevailing attorney in Meyer v. California International ...
Assistant AG Aims To Make Sure That Convicts Stay Put
By Tori Richards
SAN DIEGO - A clerk wheeled two carts into prosecutor Gary W. Schons' office, stacked with a dozen accordion files chronicling...
Trial Attorneys Gird for an Attack On Deep Pockets
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Voter enactment of Proposition 51, the 1986 ballot measure that limited "deep pockets" liability, remains a pain...
The Bar Wants JNE's Angels to Be Anonymous
By Jean Guccione
State Bar leaders have refused to make public the names of law firms and corporations that have contributed as much as $10,00...
Raychem Hit With $64 Million Antitrust Verdict
By Don De Benedictis
A Riverside company won a $64 million verdict Monday in an antitrust suit charging that electronics giant Raychem Corp. of Me...
Copyright of Public-Record Materials Still Controversial
By James Evans
SAN JOSE - Los Angeles lawyer Daniel M. Shapiro thought it would be a simple process to post the county's criminal jury instr...
Judge Broadman Is Censured By California Supreme Court
By Philip Carizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court came down hard Monday on Tulare Superior Court Judge Howard R. Broadman, publicl...
Legal Foundation Capitalizes on Promoting Conservative Policy
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Hardly a hot-button policy issue blows through this town that isn't on the agenda of Pacific Legal Foundation. Yo...
DA Points to a 21.5 Percent Increase In Family Support Bureau Collections
By Michael Harris
Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti is praising his family support bureau's collection totals for fiscal year 19...
Nightclub Sued for Turning Away Guide Dog
By Jill Boekenoogen
SANTA BARBARA - Should a blind man with a guide dog have been allowed into a crowded dance club here, even if doing so could ...
A Hyphen Is the Difference in Race for AG
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Ever wonder what campaign lawyers do? Sometimes they fight over punctuation - at least in the hotly contested ra...
Employer Can Be Sued for Secret AIDS, HIV List
By Anna Marie Stolley
A state appeal court has held in an unpublished opinion that a company can be held liable for slander and libel for covertly ...
State Appeal Court Rules Judge's Divorce Records Should Be Open
By Philip Carizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has strongly backed a reporter trying to get access to a judge's divorce file, saying th...
California Set to Take Half of Tobacco Spoils
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO - Attorneys for the cities, counties and state attorney general, who are plaintiffs in five civil suits against the...
Liquid Assets
By Charles Ashby
DENVER - Squabbling over water is a Western tradition. While Easterners laugh at what passes as a river here, only those in t...
Judge: Arbitration Clause Stops Watchdog Agency
By Craiq Anderson
SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for employers, a Santa Clara County judge has ruled that a woman who signed a compulsory arbitra...
S.F. Prepares for Its First Use of DNA Evidence
By Laura Impellizzeri
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a San Francisco Superior Court judge is hearing evidence on whether to admit genetic info...
Judge Awards Attoneys' Fees for Drained Lake
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A view of the lake, high in the San Bernardino mountains, looks like a postcard - lush greenery frames its s...
Hahn Testifies at D'Agostino Hearing
By Michael Harris
Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn testified at a civil service hearing that prosecutor Lea Purwin D'Agostino urged him to ...
Through a Child's Eyes
By Cheryl Romo
As they watched their daughter go off to college four years ago, attorney Les Hardie and his wife, Susan Moan Hardie, a child...
Rogan on Fast Track of Political Leadership
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Things happen fast for Jim Rogan. At age 33, he became a Glendale Municipal Court judge. Four years later, voters...
Panel Sidesteps Move to Oversee Private Judging
By Jean Guccione
Declining to interpret a newly adopted constitutional provision, an advisory committee has proposed that lawmakers be asked t...
Southland Federal Prosecutor Nabbed for S.F. Post
By Pamela Mac Lean
Interim Northern District U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller III said Thursday in Washington he has asked Los Angeles Assistant U.S...
Bankruptcy Web
By James Evans
As part of an effort by the federal courts to make all dockets and judicial opinions available on the Internet, the Southern D...
V.C. Lawyer Drops Challenge to Family Law Judge
By Amy Bentley
VENTURA - The lawyer who filed a motion to disqualify a Ventura county judge from hearing some 300 cases involving parents ac...