WASHINGTON - San Diego was one of six cities recognized by the National Association of Realtors and the United States Conferen...
Former deputy public defenders Susanne Cho, left, Ken Gregory, Paul Sukhram, Greg Johnson and Melanie Roe outside a courthouse...
On Jan. 9, the United States Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in MedImmune Inc. v. Genentech Inc., 12...
Grokster itself may be gone, but two years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case involving the file-sharing ...
Never before has copyright law been more important or controversial. Hundreds of millions of dollars in value stand to be tran...
Litigation
Large Companies Face Criticism of Relationships With Neutrals
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs' lawyers in a class action against Blue Cross are demanding the health care provider disclose informa...
SAN FRANCISCO - A retired Contra Costa County judge known for his stern demeanor and his mentoring of young attorneys died Mar...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge Wednesday swept aside defense pleas to ignore an appellate court ruling and sentenced a ...
Law Practice
Jury Awards $5 Million to Mother of Girls Kept Apart From Her Six Years
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - A $4.9 million verdict against Orange County and two of its social workers for keeping a mother and her daughters ...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Retroactively Canceling Insurance Lands Blue Cross in Flurry of Litigation
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - Imagine fighting cancer, then having to fight a collections agency over unpaid medical bills you thought were co...
Government
In Combating Homelessness, Mental-Health-Law Reform Holds the Key
By David Minkown
Forum Column - By Michael D. Antonovich - Reform of mental health laws is critical to solving the homeless problem. A Los Ang...
Focus Column - By Robert A. Steinberg - A sense of risk can lead to favorable settlement concessions despite unfavorable odds ...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - Two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court demonstrate glaring disparities among families’ a...
PALO ALTO - Growing up on Long Island, Richard Marmaro enjoyed debating his friends about the merits of New York's two profess...
WASHINGTON - The right against self-incrimination is sacred, but some are questioning whether a Justice Department official w...
LOS ANGELES - For the first time since federal officials began issuing special visas in 1952, the immigration service was forc...
SAN FRANCISCO - It took three elections, but attorney Meredith Lintott has finally landed the district attorney's job in Mendo...
First Amendment attorneys and media scholars celebrated the release Tuesday of a San Francisco videographer who was locked up ...
LOS ANGELES - California's highest court will be asked today whether "displaced development," or growth pushed elsewhere when ...
SANTA ANA - Services will take place today for Orange County Superior Court Judge William P. Hopkins Jr., a second-career lawy...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has sanctioned a group of local agencies for refusing to comply with an order to evaluate se...
Focus Column - By Karen L. Gabler - Classifying an employee as an independent contractor may cause more headaches than it's wo...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Medi-Cal Maze Requires a Lawyer, Report Concludes
By Annemarie Ruffn
LOS ANGELES - It's no secret that navigating medical-insurance policies is complicated, but retaining state-sponsored Medi-Cal...
Litigation
Tribal Courts: The Next Wave of Independence for State Indians
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - When lawyers occasionally cite California's Rules of Evidence in Judge Anthony Brandenburg's court, he gently adm...
WASHINGTON - Plaintiffs' lawyers feared the worst three years ago when the Republican-controlled Congress and President Bush a...
Judge Tomson T. Ong draws on his grandparents' wisdom and his success as an immigrant to America in holding defendants respo...
While traffic idled on the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles Monday, environmentalists celebrated a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that re...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Barbara teen drowns, a lawsuit follows and suddenly everybody from the California League of Cities to ...
Litigation
High Court Lets Stand Verdict for California Prison Officer
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to consider California's attempt to overturn a sexual-harassment verdict wo...
Forum Column - By Andrew B. Coan - Until it's proved otherwise, the public should assume the worst in the president's firing o...