When Ventura attorney Mark Kirwin took his family on vacation last year, he had no idea that the experience would change his l...
Eileen Currier's last wish was simple. The 72-year-old woman wanted to be cremated after she died of cancer so that her ashes ...
Marriage and family therapist Lynn Ianni slapped Court TV, TheSmokingGun.com and other defendants in the media with a defamati...
The Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Foundation hosted its 30th annual Scholarship Luncheon and Silent Auction o...
Letter to the Editor - As a former deputy public defender, I am distressed by the absurd $6.5 million liability verdict agains...
Focus Column - Litigation - By David Martinez - and Jennifer Vargas California's public policy encourages resolution of mass t...
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - Three times a year, the American Psychological Society publishes a journal, "Psychologic...
Judges and Judiciary
Bitter Brown-Nomination Battle Could End This Week
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - State Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown's 22-month adventure as a central figure in the acrimonious judi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Citing a desire to practice law in a smaller environment, three Stoel Rives partners have left the firm to st...
SANTA MARIA - A week ago, pundits and legal analysts licked their pencils, readied their microphones and began the postmortem ...
EXTRA Feature - It may defy geography, but among law firms, Latin America may be the new Asia. "A lot of large firms developed...
SAN BERNARDINO - She admits she's not a trained counselor, therapist or social worker, yet San Bernardino Superior Court Judg...
SAN FRANCISCO - Trial judge Ronald Lisk of Santa Clara County Superior Court didn't have his heart in it as he told ex-con Da...
SAN FRANCISCO - Chancellor and Dean Mary Kay Kane will end her long tenure at Hastings College of the Law following the 2006 ...
SAN JOSE - A state appellate court wants to hear more before deciding whether Apple Computer can subpoena records kept by the...
SAN FRANCISCO - Members of a white family subjected to racial harassment by black people in their native South Africa have ag...
LOS ANGELES - Hoping to avoid the ethical clouds that enveloped his predecessor, Mayor-Elect Antonio Villaraigosa has decided ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has indicted the former head of Fleishman-Hillard's Los Angeles office for allegedly conspi...
INDUSTRIAL OAKLAND - Eagle Holdings LLC purchased a 42,000-square-foot industrial building at 101-151 Hegenberger Road from PC...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Robert W. Wood - Ever since 1996, when Congress amended Section 104 of the Internal Revenue Code t...
Forum Column - By Sean B. Hecht - While citizens have had the power for decades to enforce our most important federal environm...
Corporate
Arthur Anderson: How Altering Jury Instructions Can Come Back to Haunt
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Forum Column - By Ray Jurado - Much will be written about the effect of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Arthur Anderson L...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service for Los Angeles trial attorney James G. Butler, a former Compton city attorney, will take pla...
SANTA MARIA - Though the jury has yet to decide Michael Jackson's fate, court watchers have served up their verdict on the du...
SAN DIEGO - Brash talk show host Tom Leykis did nothing illegal when he labeled a caller "way too old" for his radio show and...
LOS ANGELES - State Supreme Court justices appeared Tuesday to side with a lawyer for a convicted murderer who argued that hi...
SAN DIEGO - Activists ordered to stay away from an employee of an animal-testing company won a partial victory when an appell...
LOS ANGELES - What should have been the businesslike restructuring of one of Los Angeles County's premier child advocacy firms...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Kathleen Kelly fantasized during a college year in France of returning one ...
Judges and Judiciary
His Censure Official, Danser Fights for Bar Card
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser was formally censured Thursday for fixing traffic ti...