Judges and Judiciary
San Diego Judge Lets Attorneys Get on With Their Work
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - In the "Leave It to Beaver" land of Stephanie Sontag's girlhood, the idea that she would work as an adult scarcel...
SAN DIEGO - Making the first allegations of criminal wrongdoing in San Diego's financial scandal, District Attorney Bonnie Du...
LOS ANGELES - In what was heralded as a "historic victory" for victims of clergy sexual abuse, a Los Angeles Superior Court ju...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Hardwoods Specialty Products US LP signed a six-year, $1.6 million lease for 33,902 square feet of ind...
SANTA ANA - Alejandro Avila should be executed for kidnapping and killing 5-year-old Samantha Runnion, jurors decided Monday....
SAN FRANCISCO - Political asylum in the United States is not available to foreigners who fear for their lives for refusing to...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy made it official Monday, announcing that he will retire at the...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday ordered unsealed an unspecified number of secret documents in the case file of a forme...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Thomas F. Carlucci and Mark T. Schieble - You're a tax director of a multinational corporate group...
Judges and Judiciary
Ups, Downs and All, Serving On Jury Contributes to Self, System
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jamie Lee Curtis and Jacqueline Conner - To get this off the table first, you must understand that both of u...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - "I think that the government has successfully proved that any service member has reasonable ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether states can be sued for violations of the federal Ameri...
Litigation
Jury Finds Insurers Liable for Cost of Stringfellow Acid Pits Cleanup
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Superior Court jury Monday dealt a blow to seven insurance companies that tried to wiggle out of covering damag...
Criminal
DA Calls Peace Officer Justice Act 'a Bad Law With Unintended Consequences'
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley denounced legislation that two California congressmen introduc...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former Bayer AG executive has agreed to plead guilty to participating in an international conspiracy to fix...
Judges and Judiciary
Justice Calls 'Wobbler' Ruling An 'Invitation to Lawlessness'
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A case that started with a basketball foul ended Monday with three justices on the state's highest court accu...
Criminal
Trial May Reveal Why Infamous Murder of Rap Rival Remains Unsolved
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - A federal judge has approved the taking of a "preservation deposition" of an imprisoned informant w...
SAN FRANCISCO - A career prosecutor and civil litigator will be added to the Riverside Superior Court bench and a criminal def...
LOS ANGELES - A group of University of West Los Angeles law school alumni has offered to stand behind a $1-million line of cr...
SAN FRANCISCO - James O. Heiting, a Riverside personal-injury attorney known for his work to help lawyers with substance-abus...
INDUSTRIAL RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Kumho Tire USA signed a 12-year, $34.9 million lease for 830,485 square feet of industrial spac...
The Scene - By Draeger Martinez - The Beverly Hills Bar Association recently honored Tom Hansen as its Entertainment Lawyer of...
Ever since founding Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif in 1996, Stuart Liner has been trying to convince litigator A...
Bruce Anderson, who publishes the Anderson Valley Advertiser, is well known around Mendocino County for his poison pen. One of...
Equipped with popcorn and candy, Los Angeles Superior Court Judges Fumiko Wasserman, John Wiley and Consuelo Marshall served a...
Hoping to broaden its exposure to public agency clients in Los Angeles, Vienna, Va.-based Wickwire Gavin snagged partners Nowl...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediator Handles Disputes in an Even-Handed Way
By Geneva Whitmarsh
ADR Profile - Jeffrey Krivis calls a story he penned about a man who sued his employer for wrongful termination "Independence ...
Los Angeles Judicial Officer Trades Robe for Coveralls in Napa Valley Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Guillermina G. B...
Harrah's Entertainment Inc. and Caesar's Entertainment Inc. have completed the sale of four casinos to an affiliate of Colony ...
Appellate Practice
Man Sues Over Failure to Tell Him of Consular Rights
By Adrianna Khoo
A Mexican national spending time in a San Diego jail on drug charges is saying he may not have ended up there if sheriff's dep...