Letter to the Editor - I enjoyed your front-page article about teaching today's law students about the 1992 Rodney King riots,...
Focus Column - By Jeffrey S. Galvin - An unsolicited fax that touts a vacation package may be lawful if sent from Las Vegas bu...
SAN FRANCISCO - As one of Google's top lawyers, Miriam Rivera is right in the thick of it. The high-flying Internet search en...
Judges and Judiciary
Top Court Weighs Inmate's Right to Challenge Execution
By Amy Kalinn
A highly engaged U.S. Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with whether a Florida death row inmate should have the opportunity to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived the hot legal debate over medical marijuana Wednesday by reversi...
SACRAMENTO - With the fifth-largest economy in the world, California offers a political playground too important for corporati...
LOS ANGELES - Moving to bolster its position to compete for class action and securities litigation, Lerach, Coughlin, Stoia, G...
SAN FRANCISCO - If avian influenza type H5N1 - bird flu - were to hit with a fatal ferocity matching its hype, the first perso...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge said Tuesday that he is "leaning" toward denying the petition by a police officer seekin...
Juvenile
Violence-Prone Youth Authority Still Fails Its Children, Its Taxpayers
By David Minkown
Forum Column - By Sue Burrell and Jonathan Laba - Beginning in 2000, the California Youth Authority , the state's institutiona...
Services have taken place for C. David Serena III, an active mediator who frequently volunteered his services to the Riverside...
Focus Column - By John F. Fielder - "... a critical attitude toward a subject can only be adopted when a complete mastery of i...
WASHINGTON - Los Angeles attorney Milan D. Smith Jr. is set to sail smoothly toward confirmation as a federal appeals court ju...
Appellate Practice
Homeland Security Rule Is Unconstitutional, Panel Says
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals panel on Tuesday reversed the conviction of a man who transported nearly 60 pounds of mariju...
Appellate Practice
O'Donnell Aiming for a Katrina Bull's-Eye Over Storm Surge
By Garry Abramsn
Column - By Garry Abrams - "The worst place in the world to bring a class action is the 5th Circuit," Pierce O'Donnell told me...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys in the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping case are pointing fingers at eac...
LOS ANGELES - With a recent poll showing him 41 points behind his Democratic opponent, Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadi...
Administrative/Regulatory
Courtroom Artist Records the 'Soul of the Case'
By Alexa Hylandn
Artist Mona Edwards sat in the front row every day at Michael Jackson's molestation trial sketching scenes the world's TV and ...
Judicial Profile
Bringing Simplicity to Complex Cases
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Judge E. Michael Kaiser doesn't want jurors in complex civil trials to begin their deliberations in a confused haz...
SAN FRANCISCO - Charles Smith's dislike for Wal-Mart prompted the Georgia resident to change the Arkansas retail giant's logo ...
Judges and Judiciary
'One Day, One Trial' Opens Lawyers' Eyes About Jury Service
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Jacqueline Connor - One Day, One Trial has made enormous changes to the landscape of jury trials, more than...
Focus Column - By Martin Fern - Many lawyers continue drafting business contracts using the same stilted language that a lawye...
SANTA ANA - A memorial service will be held Wednesday for Martin B. Weinberg, a prominent supporter of theater and women's rig...
Law Practice
Capitol Lobbyist Fights to the Death for His Laboring Clients
By Jennifer Hammn
SACRAMENTO - Barry Broad is a hard-charging lobbyist who isn't the type to throw a punch at an opponent after the fight is ove...
WASHINGTON - President Bush nominated Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Philip S. Gutierrez to the U.S. District Court for the ...
LOS ANGELES - A Mexican woman who obtained her green card more than a decade ago can't be deported because she was three week...
Goodwin Procter's California dreams have become a reality. The Boston-based firm will announce today that it has lured away ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Boils Over; Defendant's Legal Souffle Collapses
By Garry Abramsn
Column - By Garry Abrams - If super chef Wolfgang Puck wanted to create a delicious U.S. Supreme Court case, he might come up ...
VENTURA - Santa Barbara County Judge Diana R. Hall, under fire for allegedly violating judicial ethics, testified Monday she u...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state's method of charging companies to support hazardous waste ...