SAN DIEGO - State appellate justices moved incumbent Dick Murphy back into the mayor's chair Tuesday, lifting a court order th...
SAN DIEGO - Over strenuous objections from a state prosecutor, the California Supreme Court seemed poised Tuesday to reopen t...
Administrative/Regulatory
Lawyers Pay Court Costs In Disclosure Controversy
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Two criminal defense lawyers prosecuted by the Yolo County District Attorney's office for disclosing witness inf...
SAN JOSE - Two corporate gadflies who helped define the limits of free speech on the Internet go before the California Suprem...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court held Monday that public court records are fair game for television true-crime pro...
LOS ANGELES - With sincere apologies to Shakespeare, Antony I. Stuart often feels like all the courtroom's a stage and all the...
INDUSTRIAL TUSTIN - Bixby Land Co. purchased a 122,801-square-foot industrial building located at 1201 Bell Ave. from Little ...
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - The Associated Press reported the good news Nov. 29 that violent school crime decreased ...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - Psychologists warn us that the holidays present an emotional red alert for many peopl...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Lauri Kritt Martin - It is a fact of our society that we have become mor...
Criminal
This Being L.A., Nobody Saw Nothin' in Blake-Case Computer Theft
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The brilliant fictional British detective Sherlock Holmes should be called in to investigate the th...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Board Won't Raise Ethic Exam's Passing Grade
By Don De Benedictis
The State Bar Board of Governors rejected a proposal Saturday to raise the passing grade for the ethics exam all want-to-be-la...
Environmental
Airport Mitigation Plan Costing $500 Million Passes First Hurdle
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - The city's pledge to spend $500 million to mitigate the impact of LAX expansion on neighboring communities pass...
Labor/Employment
San Diego Officer's Sex Video Isn't Protected, Justices Rule
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Issuing a sharp rebuke to the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court on Monday ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court obviously isn't afraid of teaching young people that capital punishment in Calif...
Administrative/Regulatory
9th Circuit Voices Doubts On Consumer Privacy Law
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A significant portion of California's landmark consumer privacy law appears doomed, judging by arguments Mond...
Seattle's oldest and largest law firm, Preston Gates & Ellis, is expanding its Asian presence by merging its Taipei offic...
SACRAMENTO - Newly elected Assemblyman Dave Jones, D-Sacramento, was appointed Monday as chairman of the Assembly Judiciary C...
LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake's long-awaited murder trial was delayed yet again Monday because his attorney's computer containing...
SAN DIEGO - Saying municipal funds are running short, newly sworn-in San Diego City Attorney Mike Aguirre revealed Monday that...
SAN FRANCISCO - The jury foreman failed to disclose his past as a stabbing victim and a criminal defendant, but the Californi...
SACRAMENTO - The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California said Monday it will file a lawsuit challenging Proposi...
LOS ANGELES - The Automobile Club of Southern California agreed Monday to settle a class action brought by its employees for ...
LOS ANGELES - A complicated dispute between the Tribune Co. and the Internal Revenue Service made its way to trial Monday, wit...
LOS ANGELES - Civil liberties lawyers today will argue the curious case of an Orange County man who has been held by immigrati...
LOS ANGELES - The Catholic Diocese of Orange agreed to pay $110 million to 87 victims of clergy sexual abuse, but some lawyers...
The teams facing off as finalists in the third annual National Civil Trial Competition stood in sharp contrast: an aggressive ...
INDUSTRIAL BALDWIN PARK - Apec Corp. purchased a 71,553 square-foot industrial building located at 5020-5050 Rivergrade Road f...
SAN FRANCISCO - The two camps vying to purchase the rights to sue Clifford Chance from Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's bank...
Partners at the Los Angeles office of Morrison & Foerster have chosen intellectual property litigator A. Max Olson as thei...