Torrance Judge Mark S. Arnold attributes his smooth adaptation to his job to the wildly different earlier chapters of his life...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Industry Watch - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's la...
Self-Assessment Test by Hon. Alex Ricciardulli
After 40 years at the county counsel's office, S. Robert Ambrose found a new niche as a Los Angeles County Juvenile Court comm...
Whittier Judge Mark G. Nelson employs a variety of strategies to reach the emotional defendants in his domestic-violence court...
A new 12-story, 36-courtroom courthouse in downtown San Bernardino is scheduled to be built and opened in five years, accordin...
LOS ANGELES -- On the same day juror selection began, a federal judge on Thursday pushed back the Feb. 27 start date for Antho...
SAN FRANCISCO - The parents of a climber crushed by a 600-ton rockfall at Yosemite National Park can proceed with their wrongf...
LOS ANGELES - A lawsuit filed Wednesday by Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo against one of the state's largest healt...
I do not believe that conscientious citizens will mind in the least being required to show identification before being allowed...
Focus Column - A recent state Supreme Court ruling determines whether shareholders can continue in a class action when a merge...
Just because a government agency creates a dangerous intersection doesn't mean it can automatically be held liable for any inj...
WASHINGTON - Citing the huge caseload in the Eastern District of California, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., asked Thursday f...
SAN FRANCISCO - The scandal over Hewlett-Packard's boardroom leak investigation drew widespread attention to a practice known ...
Employment Column - By Robert W. Wood - The case of Blackwater in Iraq can serve as a model to employers confused about what d...
SAN JOSE - Cecily Bond, a retired Sacramento County Superior Court judge who now works as a neutral for JAMS, gets high marks ...
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Thursday rejected a San Francisco Bay Area restaurant association's e...
Web Exclusive - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law...
Litigation
In Unusual Step, Judge Boosts Jurors' Verdict in Fraud Case
By Cortney Fieldingn
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has taken the unusual step of boosting a $38 million jury verdict awar...
Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford Law School professor who recently changed his academic focus from cyberlaw to political corrupti...
Judges and Judiciary
Free-Speech Advocates Decry Judge's Order Shutting Web Site
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge's recent order shutting down a whistle-blower Web site has riled California free-speech advoca...
WASHINGTON - Ballooning legal costs and lengthy delays have become part and parcel of the discovery process in the face of a s...
The Supreme Court issued three other opinions Wednesday, dealing the following issues: retirement plans, tobacco shipments and...
SAN FRANCISCO - Current and former partners of O'Melveny & Myers are donating $1.5 million to make permanent a professorsh...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - The federal government is working overtime trying to clean up the legal mess made by the use...
Forum Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - A well-executed juror questionnaire can be an essential tool for the court to ensure bo...
SACRAMENTO - A nonpartisan advisory body to the state Legislature urged lawmakers Wednesday to reject the governor's state bud...
LOS ANGELES - High-profile divorce lawyer Stacy D. Phillips had a busy day Tuesday. What kept Phillips preoccupied? Britney Sp...
SAN FRANCISCO - How do conservative judges continue to hold on to their robes in the progressive outpost one political scholar...