Forum Column - By Donald Kilmer - The Supreme Court's upcoming case on Washington, D.C.'s gun ban isn't a matter of public pol...
Industry Watch - By Adam Gorlick - The city's Chamber of Commerce is getting a new top lawyer to replace Steve Farrand, who h...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday that it will decide whether states can adopt different legal standards fo...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider the Bush administration's appeal of a lower-court ruling that in...
Litigation
Judge Gives San Diego Diocese Stern Rebuke in Latest Ruling
By Sandra Hernandezn
The judge overseeing the allocation of the settlement in the San Diego Diocese molestation case said Friday that the abuse by ...
The case against Barry Bonds had hardly begun before federal prosecutors signaled they would be taking aim at at least some me...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday that it will take up an important employment law case involving Wal-Mart,...
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...
Industry Watch - Retirements, promotions? Check out our listing of lawyers and judges who have gained recognition for their ...
Lawyers say Judge Andrew P. Banks is funny but tough and pays close attention to every detail. ...
9th Circuit Judge Harry Pregerson ripped a Los Angeles lawyer and a prominent immigration judge Thursday in a published opinio...
A group of Santa Monica lawyers won't have to pay a psychologist who helped them get a $1.5 million settlement on behalf of wo...
Forum Column - By Curt Rich - As Congress takes up an energy bill for the coming year, the potential of biofuels to deliver cl...
Focus Column - By Sergio Garcia - A recent Supreme Court decision altering the balance between patent holders and their licens...
LOS ANGELES - A woman who claimed two security guards sexually leered at her and had her falsely arrested for theft at a Walgr...
LOS ANGELES - The California Newspaper Publishers Association is honoring District Attorney Steve Cooley with its Freedom of I...
Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - Can a rifle-wielding drunk be protected from employer discipline because her alcoh...
A mother's video depicting the life of a 19-year-old Los Angeles murder victim did not sway jurors to send the teenager's kill...
As a neutral at JAMS since 1999, Judge Diane L. Wayne has built a reputation among many lawyers as the go-to person to handl...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Courtroom Analogies Are to Lawyers as Weapons Are to Soldiers
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By G. Christopher Ritter - Attorneys looking to make the maximum rhetorical impact on juries should remember th...
When Ramon Aguilera shot and killed Marcos Gonzalez, he also set in motion a complex force of litigation that began as an atte...
LOS ANGELES - The federal government is putting lives at risk because it routinely fails to test, track or treat HIV and AIDS ...
SAN JOSE - Prosecutors have not made a convincing case that Gregory Reyes, the former chief of Brocade Communications Systems ...
SANTA ANA - The case thought to be the largest federal death-penalty prosecution in modern times isn't a death-penalty case at...
A California-based footwear company prevailed this week in a civil lawsuit brought against it by its former chief financial of...
A Fresno man who was burned on 65 percent of his body in a workplace fire was awarded $27 million by a federal jury in Fresno....
Gone are the days when a judge could retire and dabble in mediation or arbitration, or a lawyer could mediate part time while ...
More attorneys, like Jackie Harlow, are spending time at law firms before seeking clerkships, where they hit the ground runnin...
The state's 40 Top Neutrals for 2007 ...
WASHINGTON - Only one thing seemed crystal clear Wednesday as the Supreme Court confronted its latest case on the legal rights...