Da Vinci prints dress up a plain Redlands courtroom, reflecting the roots of Cynthia A. Ludvigsen, who sits on the probate be...
Government
Holder Won't Rule Out Charging Bush Administration Officials
By Robert Iafolla
President-elect Barack Obama's pick for attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., walked a fine line at his confirmation hearing T...
In one of the most backlogged trial courts in California, Riverside County Judge Christopher J. Sheldon made a habit of leavin...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Hears Test Case Over Gun Rights
By Rebecca Beyer
A 9th Circuit panel Thursday considered whether an Alameda County ordinance banning guns on county property violates the First...
Asia is the next frontier in the two-century debate about state execution as a criminal punishment, write David T. Johnson and...
As the March primary in the crowded Los Angeles city attorney race draws near, lawyers are donating money for their favorite c...
Thanks to a recent appellate court decision, corporate officers can be held liable for environmental wrongdoings, write Matthe...
The pending Employee Free Choice Act could have a drastic effect on union organization success rates, writes D. Gregory Valenz...
If only CalTrans had agreed to another traffic signal on Coast Highway, the weird and expensive litigation might have been avo...
Former judge Robert Baines is happy to shed the bench's confining decorum. ...
Will the last act of Roman Polanski’s fugitive saga be a courtroom showdown in Los Angeles, asks Arnold Friedman. - Forum Colu...
California Supreme Court
State Justices Send Message To Lawyers: Hire a Professional
By John Roemer
Another reason why a lawyer representing himself has a fool for a client came from the California Supreme Court Thursday. Lawy...
The two remaining name partners at Dreier Stein Kahan - the West Coast affiliate firm of jailed New York litigator Marc Dreier...
The thorny debate over reforming California's decrepit prison health care system, which continues to rage in a San Francisco c...
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom scored big on a $2.8 billion deal in which the firm's client Santa Ana-based Advanced...
A former Mayer Brown partner has joined the litigation department of Dykema Gossett in Los Angeles office.
Jury is still out on fairness declarations.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley isn't immune from retaliation claims by a deputy prosecutor, the 9th U.S. Ci...
A fixture in criminal court since 1989, Judge Gary R. Hahn has his share of war stories. But he still takes pride in the time...
Litigation
Good Cases Lurk Under the Surface, Says New Head of S.F. Trial Lawyers
By Dhyana Levey
Stephen M. Murphy is launching a program that will allow members of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association to track each ...
While the U.S. Senate held confirmation hearings for President-elect Barack Obama's top environmental deputies Wednesday, envi...
Los Angeles has a playbook to guide all manner of rescues and evacuations after an earthquake. But members of a group that cou...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
A Pre-emptive Pardon for Those Who Tortured Could Backfire
By Sara Libbyn
If Bush ends up pardoning individuals who tortured, those very people could become more vulnerable to international prosecutio...
Our social contract acknowledges the tyranny by the majority -- and our high court should too, in overturning Prop. 8. ...
William Jaeger, an antitrust litigator who worked alongside future Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to win a $300 million set...
President-elect Barack Obama's transition team contacted U.S. attorneys and U.S. marshals across the country Wednesday and ask...
If you ask attorney Kevin Stein what tools he and his colleagues have to fight foreclosures and win loan modifications for des...
U.S. Supreme Court
Stepping Back, U.S. Justices Defer to Judges on Sentencing
By Lawrence Hurleyn
The U.S. Supreme Court held Wednesday that judges, not juries, get to decide whether sentences run consecutively or concurrent...
A Cupertino patent attorney accused of secretly patenting his own inventions without notifying his employer was vindicated by ...
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has chosen a new co-partner in charge of the Los Angeles and Century City offices.