Government
City Attorney, Officials Clash Over Funding for May Day Defense
By Peter Matuszakn
Nearly a year after the first lawsuits were filed against the city in response to the May Day clash at MacArthur Park, officia...
Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Los Angeles-based litigation giant Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges will soon ope...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
What Voters 'Don't Ask' but Can 'Tell' About Obama's Race
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Devon Carbado - As Barack Obama's candidacy has proven, people are judged both by the color of their skin an...
Focus Column - By Kristi Lousteau and Ronald Rose - The preliminary hearing is an important mechanism designed to weed out cas...
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - China's regime of Internet censorship is, without question, a crime against individual libert...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - John Gibson, who served as the hiring partner and firmwide real estate litigation chair a...
Robert Chavez, 1961-2008, a prominent plaintiffs' lawyer and former professional beach volleyball player, died Thursday at his...
A school district that was sued by one of its trustees is no longer a defendant in the complaint. A Riverside Superior Court c...
A prosecution witness called to further discredit one of Anthony Pellicano's co-defendants regarding a fraudulent bankruptcy i...
Web Exclusive - By Jason W. Armstrong - A judge Friday found in favor of Barbie maker Mattel Inc. on most of the issues he rev...
Web Exclusive - By Ryan Oliver - A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Friday removed the district attorney's office fr...
California's embattled state-run workers' compensation provider, already the defendant in a class action suit alleging it squa...
Commissioner Lawrence Ornell is productive, a fact he attributes to needing only three to five hours of shut-eye a night. ...
Self-Assessment Test by Hon. Alex Ricciardulli
Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark V. Mooney tries to maintain a respectful, pleasant courtroom atmosphere. He says ...
Thierry P. Colaw used to relish courtroom combat as a trial lawyer. Now as an Orange County Superior Court judge, he prefers p...
The Justice Department has raised eyebrows by using former officials - including former Attorney General John Ashcroft and for...
A federal judge will soon decide how logging behemoth Pacific Lumber Co. will emerge from bankruptcy and his decision could ha...
U.S. Supreme Court
Stock Holdings May Force Justices to Sit Out Apartheid Case
By David Houstonn
Justices Stephen Breyer, left, John Roberts and Samuel Alito own stock in defendants of an apartheid lawsuit appealed to the S...
Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Regardless of the type of case, or experience level of the participants, certain issue...
A top official at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs testified Thursday that it took three years for the Veterans Health ...
The computer programmer who built Anthony Pellicano's wiretapping system squabbled with the federal prosecutor cross-examining...
Judges and Judiciary
Criminal Defense Attorney Named Superior Court Commissioner
By Cortney Fieldingn
Superior Court judges have elected criminal defense attorney Alan Ira Rubin to serve as the court's newest commissioner. ...
California Courts of Appeal
Discrimination Award Against Whittier Upheld
By Nicolas Taborekn
A state appeals court has upheld a $1.25 million award to a female police officer who alleged her supervisors in the Whittier ...
Employment Column - By David Martinez and Hernaldo Baltodano - A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision speaks to the admissibilit...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Shockley Retires From Superior Court in Yolo County
By Linda Rapattoni
Yolo County Superior Court Judge Doris Shockley is retiring, but her disappearance from the bench at the county courthouse in ...
Santa Monica mediator Richard E. Posell keeps up to date on advances in entertainment and intellectual property law through ex...
Web Exclusive - By Linda Rapattoni - California Senate leader Don Perata will carry a measure to hike court fees and criminal ...
Insurance
Judge Denies Allstate Bid to Block Insurance Rate Decrease
By Cortney Fieldingn
Web Exclusive - By Cortney Fielding - A San Francisco judge has denied auto-insurance giant Allstate's bid to block a rate dec...