Criminal
Conspiracy Theory Remains Key to Shrinking Rap-Murder Civil Case
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The Notorious B.I.G. case keeps getting smaller. More than three years after it was filed, the cons...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court Monday struck down two of the last remaining challenges to the underpinnings of the plan...
SAN FRANCISCO - Curious authorities took note a few years ago when they discovered an ominous rust-colored swath discoloring t...
Judges and Judiciary
Prosecutor Gets Break From Usually Strict Appeals Judge
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A young federal prosecutor with a string of reversals to his name got an unusual break Monday from a senior j...
LOS ANGELES - After a 14-week trial filled with lurid tales of boozing, body waxing and late nights in a private arcade, a San...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced three appointments to various state boards and positions in May. The governor appointed a...
Like the Los Angeles region, the roster of clients for the sports practice at Century City's Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Mar...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Former Judge Offers Clients 'Abundance of Experience'
By Geneva Whitmarsh
"Three of the most unpredictable things in the world are a stallion in heat, a woman in love and a jury," ADR mediator and arb...
The East African nations of Ethiopia and Eritrea have had a long, tumultuous history, marked with significant casualties durin...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Chief Justice Fights for Independent State Judiciary
By Adrianna Khoo
State Chief Justice Ronald M. George thanked the Beverly Hills Bar Association for supporting the independence of the judiciar...
Pulling up to the valet at the Beverly Hilton, The Scene gazed through the glass windows of the hotel lobby in awe. Standing b...
EXTRA Column - By Jeffrey Krivis and Mariam Zadeh - The X factor in mediation is the ability to influence the other side to pa...
Struggling computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. has announced plans to buy partner Storage Technology Corp. for $4.1 billion i...
Telling mall security and a restaurant employee that "a very creepy guy was just outside looking at me; he's gone now," isn't ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Jeffrey S. Kravitz rarely wants the judge who presides over a civil dispute to run the pretrial settlem...
In their heyday, the raucous 1980s, few bands better epitomized the reckless abandon of the head-banger lifestyle than Motley ...
A Chico man caught yelling racial epithets and beating three Hmong men to the ground will pick up the tab not only for the vic...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Interocean Industries signed a five-year, $952,523 lease for 14,951 square feet of research-and-develop...
Networking is everything. Just ask Philip Graves. The intellectual property litigator jumped to the Los Angeles office of Squi...
Administrative/Regulatory
Proposition 64 Doesn't Hurt Enviromental Suits
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - The California Legislature has wisely tabled the bill Sean B. Hecht touted in his recent Forum article ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Solutions to Pot Ruling Lie in New Legislation, Medical Research
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Allen Hopper - On June 6, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the medical marijuana case Gonzales ...
For the Record - A front-page brief Thursday, "Fleishman Plea," incorrectly reported that former Fleishman-Hillard executive D...
EXTRA Feature - In the late '90s, top brass at Los Angeles' Loeb & Loeb came to junior partner Adam Streisand with a propo...
Administrative/Regulatory
Petition Demands Recall of District Attorney
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Opponents of San Benito County District Attorney John Sarsfield turned in what they said were more than 7,000 sign...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Rene Navarro is one of the stalwarts of the Hall of Justice. He has preside...
LOS ANGELES - A delay appeared to be in the works for the trial, slated to begin Tuesday, of the high-profile wrongful-death ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry B. Friedman, a former state assemblyman, has been elected the 74th pre...
LOS ANGELES - A gay associate in the Los Angeles office of White & Case has filed a sexual-harassment and discrimination l...
Criminal
Secretary Accused of Theft Says Judge Asked Too Much of Her
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A secretary accused by a federal judge of stealing more than $452,000 from his personal accounts has in turn accu...
LOS ANGELES - A month after he was fired from Los Angeles County's Children's Law Center, setting off an impromptu public prot...