LOS ANGELES - Syd Whalley, executive director of the Western Center on Law and Poverty, was out of town when an attorney from ...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Filing Deadline Passes as Cases Against Vioxx Rise 50 Percent
By Carri Karuhnn
The number of Vioxx liability cases rose about 50 percent nationwide over the past three months as a key filing deadline passe...
Law Practice
Study Takes Nuanced Look at Three Years Into a Law Career
By Robert Iafolla
LOS ANGELES - Three years after passing the bar, women lawyers make an average of $14,000 less than their male counterparts pe...
Whether at the helm of his 46-foot sailboat or presiding over a high-profile murder trial, Riverside County Superior Court Jud...
Intellectual Property
Common Sense Can Help File-Sharing Sites Protect Themselves
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By Perry Viscounty and Monica Awadalla - Today, young teenagers, college junkies and business professionals ali...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Louisiana Vioxx Suits Highlight the Dangers of Litigation Public Relations
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Grant Kaiser - When judges request that counsel not speak to the press, as Judge Eldon Fallon did before the...
Technology & Science
HP Taps Charles Charnas to Be Interim General Counsel
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - Hewlett-Packard has appointed Charles N. Charnas to oversee the computer manufacturers' giant legal department o...
Government
Supreme Court Arguments Turn on Jury Instructions in Death Sentence
By Hurley
WASHINGTON - In its first full day of action after a three-month summer break, the U.S. Supreme Court took up a California mur...
LOS ANGELES - Richard Goldman, dean of the Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law, has died. ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Ellen Aprill - In Murphy v. U.S., 05-5139, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit he...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Tuesday awarded $4 million to the former hostess of a popular celebrity eatery in Malibu, who...
SAN FRANCISCO - The sports trainer who has opted to sit in prison rather than testify about whether his old friend Barry Bonds...
Judges and Judiciary
State's Justices Weigh Teenager's Search Protections on Probation
By Aris Davoudiann
SANTA BARBARA -The California Supreme Court seemed split Tuesday on whether juveniles on probation should have the same protec...
LOS ANGELES - The federal prosecutor whose cross-examination of Enron executive Kenneth Lay was described by one observer as "...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will re-examine three major patents on human embryonic stem cells held by...
SACRAMENTO - A Southern California Indian tribe that has contributed millions of dollars to political campaigns and causes wil...
Judges and Judiciary
Labor Board Ruling Keeps Some Nurses From Unions
By Annemarie Ruffn
Permanent charge nurses are supervisors and cannot enjoy U.S. union protections, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tues...
Whether reading history or applying the lessons of his childhood move from Cuba, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Jesse...
LOS ANGELES - Mark Bell is one of roughly 100 doctors in the Emergent Medical Associates group that staff 10 emergency departm...
Judges and Judiciary
How Bad Is Bad? Courts Conflict on Reprehensibility Guide
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By David T. Biderman and Gabriel Liao - The application of the BMW of North America Inc. v. Gore, 517 U.S. 559 ...
LOS ANGELES - A challenge to a Justice Department policy used to gain the cooperation of companies under white-collar criminal...
LOS ANGELES - A former Studio City attorney was charged Monday with bilking $1.4 million from the trust funds of two clients w...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court opened its 2006 term on Monday by rejecting nearly 1,900 appeals that had piled up over the sum...
Judges and Judiciary
Everything You Need to Know About the State Bar Court and Then Some
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Barbara W. Ravitz - When the California Supreme Court first appointed me to its Applicant Evaluation and Nom...
Zoning, Planning and Use
New City Squares Off Against Santa Barbara County Over Land Use
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court will consider Tuesday how much power a newly incorporated city has to block a hou...
Immigration
Court to Review Drug Provision of 1996 Immigration Reform
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - For Avinesh Naidu the hardest part of each day comes early, just after the sun rises over the Mira Loma Detentio...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Former State Bar President Shallenberger Is Found Dead
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - Garvin F. Shallenberger, former president of the State Bar of California and the Orange County Bar Association a...
SACRAMENTO - Former California Attorney General John Van de Kamp said Monday that he believes Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger misun...
Corporate
Is the Los Angeles Times in Play or Is Its Chicago Parent on Block?
By Rick Kennedyn
COLUMN - It was showdown week in the media industry. A stand-off between management and ownership at the Los Angeles Times gav...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco County Superior Court judge has refused to change his mind against requiring canned tuna maker...