Study Recommends Letting Jurors Discuss Case Early On
By Jean Guccione
Rejecting fears that juries will prejudge cases, a new study has found no harm in letting jurors discuss a case among themsel...
Punitive Paralegal Must Pay $1.3M For Failed Affair
By Josh Grossberg
It may have started as an "Ally McBeal"-style office romance between a lawyer and a paralegal. But that was before the false ...
Judge Orders Inmates Release In LAPD Probe
By Michael Harris
In what is believed to be an unprecedented action taken by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, prosecutors Thu...
Ruling Eases Way for Organ Transplants
By Martin Bergn
A federal appeals court has ruled that neither a hospital nor an organ donor network had a duty to search for the next of kin...
The Trail of Tears Ends in California at a Slot Machine
By Columnist
By Peter Schrag Guilt serves all sorts of purposes in American politics (some of them entirely admirable) but rarely, if ever...
Ordinary People
By Columnist
Ordinary People CGL Policy Covers Breach-of-Contract Damages The court explained that there was no evidence that the parties ...
Lawyers, Cross-Examine Yourselves
By Columnist
By William M. Crosby "Lawsuit abuse," "tort reform," "overhauling our legal system" and "reining in out-of-control juries and...
Interpreters Picket Los Angeles Court
By Michael Harris
Interpreters Picket Los Angeles Court Two months after their last protest, approximately two-dozen court interpreters Wednesd...
Grant to Fund Visitation Program
By Daniel Jennings
Grant to Fund Visitation Program SAN BERNARDINO - The Superior Court of San Bernardino has been awarded a $67,775 grant by th...
New Math
By Columnist
New Math Carriers Have No Duty to Settle to Avoid Punitives By Kurt Andrew Schlichter and Rikka Fountain The California Supre...
Lights, Camera, Cause of Action
By Columnist
Lights, Camera, Cause of Action Legal education is becoming a trip to the tube By Paul O'Brien Out of work for much of last s...
Jurist Predicts Problems With Court Backlog
By Patricia Jocobus
SAN FRANCISCO - In an unusually blunt assessment of the state of the courts, Court of Appeal Justice Gary Strankman warned Mo...
UCSD Pays $4.7M for Fraud Claim
By Claude Walbert
UCSD Pays $4.7M For Fraud Claim SAN DIEGO - The University of California San Diego Medical Center agreed Wednesday to pay the...
Teachers May Appeal Dismissal of Prop. 227 Suit
By Anne La Jeunesse
The California Teachers Association is considering whether or not it will appeal a recent federal court decision to dismiss i...
Chamber Safety
By Lauren Bartlett
Reacting to an increasing number of shootings in public places, the Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to install metal...
Lawyer May Enter Plea to Bank Robberies
By Michael Harris
Even though he has not yet had his preliminary hearing on charges he committed four bank robberies to support a heroin habit,...
New Rule Would Limit Depos To One Day
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The Judicial Conference of the United States on Wednesday approved changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedu...
Colorado Issues Legal Primer On School Violence
By Charles Ashby
DENVER - Last spring's fatal shootings at Columbine High School have left school administrators across Colorado - and the nat...
State Supreme Court Will Not Review Order Abandoning Counting of Women, Minorities
By David Kravetz
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously declined to review former Gov. Pete Wilson's executive ...
Giving His All
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Anil Mehta remembers the day he lost his left arm like it was yesterday. It happened six years ago when Mehta - n...
Volunteering Is Natural to Leader Of Women Lawyers
By Susan Mc Rae
From cycling in this year's annual San Francisco to Los Angeles AIDS ride to volunteering on the boards of numerous bar and c...
Aetna Seeks Insurance Coverage for Punitive Claim
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Who's on the hook for $116 million? When a San Bernardino County jury in January voted the big punitive damag...
Merger of Legal Aid Programs Is Abruptly Halted
By Jeffrey Anderson
In a turn of events that leaves the future configuration of legal aid services in Los Angeles and Orange counties in limbo, a...
Pilot Project Set to Aid Legal Access
By Lauren Bartlett
Pilot Project Set For Legal Access In an attempt to help litigants who represent themselves, the Los Angeles County Board of ...
New Curfew Given Preliminary OK
By Lauren Bartlett
New Curfew Given Preliminary OK In an effort to avoid a legal challenge, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted un...
Names Sought for Jurist Award
By From Staff Reports
Names Sought For Jurist Award The Administrative Office of the Court is now accepting nominations for the Benjamin Aranda III...
Courage of Our Convictions
By Columnist
By Joseph Charney I recently observed a felony trial in a French criminal court in Bordeaux in which the judge called the def...
Copying of Computer Software Is No Game to Playstation Maker
By David Kravetz
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday heard oral arguments in a case involving the video games to which countless c...
San Diego DA Office Again in Hot Seat
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Unwanted judicial scrutiny of the district attorney's office here seems likely to continue when a former deputy D...
Judge to Hold Court on Reservation
By Martin Kruming
In a unique arrangement, a Superior Court judge will hold a special court session on Saturday in Pauma Valley for members of ...