Letter to the Editor - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley's shameful remarks regarding the Blake jurors were, and rema...
Letter to the Editor - While the Beverly Hills Bar Association recognizes everyone's right to disagree with a jury verdict or ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has asked the lawyers who argued a recent defamation case involving Johnnie Cochran for their v...
EXTRA Feature - Unlike the state Supreme Court, California’s Court of Appeal has no discretion over the cases that cross its b...
SAN DIEGO - A federal appeals court on Friday solidified Mayor Dick Murphy's grasp on the post he has held four years. A three...
LOS ANGELES - State and local law enforcement officials used April Fool's Day to send a message to the public: Don't get hood...
SAN FRANCISCO - A well-known Beverly Hills yoga instructor and a group of rival teachers will have to sweat out their spat in ...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's OK to be different - at least when it comes to calculating the value of employee stock options, and at le...
LOS ANGELES - A punitive-damages award against cigarette maker Philip Morris that once stood at $3 billion was cut to $50 mill...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court handed yet another defeat to renegade strip-club owner Badi "Bill" Gammoh on Friday, ref...
INDUSTRIAL FREMONT - Intermatix Corp. signed a lease for 21,000 square feet of industrial space at 46410 Fremont Blvd. from Ca...
SAN DIEGO - In Ed Obayashi's office is a framed commendation from his days with the San Diego Police Department. It praises h...
Labor/Employment
Accidents Prompt Employers to Consider Restricting Cell Phone Use
By Columnist
Employment Column - By John E. Lattin IV - As evidenced by the fact that more and more employees use cell phones to stay conne...
Forum Column - By Tom Adler - Lawyers have a host of stated reasons for practicing law, and I think I've heard most of them. F...
Administrative/Regulatory
Panel Upholds Most of Care Not Cash Program
By Hudson Sangree
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco appellate panel has ruled that the city can maintain most of its controversial Care Not Cash p...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County Superior Court judge says environmentalists bringing an Unfair Competition Law action can se...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Ex-Director of BASF Named as Fund-Raiser for Women Judges
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Drucilla Stender Ramey, the iconic former director of the Bar Association of San Francisco, is wearing a new h...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Intergulf Development Inc. purchased a 10,000-square-foot industrial property at 1635 C St. and 1060 1...
SAN FRANCISCO - A consumer activist's attempts to force Proposition 65 toxic chemical warnings for meat has provoked a regula...
SANTA BARBARA - In his 18 years on the bench, Commissioner Edward DeCaro has heard some doozies from people hauled in to court...
Environmental
Constitutionality of Endangered Species Act Depends on Economics
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Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - Is the Endangered Species Act unconstitutional? Does Congress have the power to preven...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Tanja Darrow - With the skyrocketing cost of health care, coupled with an overall concern f...
Personal Injury & Torts
Court's Holding on Economic Loss Rule is Troubling, Problematic
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Forum Column - By Matthew Henderson - In law school, the line between tort and contract law is drawn as easily and sharply as ...
Letter to the Editor - Paul Singarella's Forum column ("Flood of Intervention Stems Due Process in Regional Water Proceedings,...
Letter to the Editor - Blair Clarkson's assumption in the article "Black Women Sue Hotel for Tossing Them Out," as published i...
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services will take place Saturday for William J. King, a complex defense litigation specialist and ant...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Who Sued Attorneys for Race Bias Retires on Disability
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Walter L. Blackwell III, a San Bernardino judge who raised legal eyebrows when he filed a racial discrimina...
LOS ANGELES - The law firm founded in 1981 by famed Los Angeles attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. will continue its work under Coch...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County woman who worked as a certified nurse's assistant throughout California for more than 25 ye...
SAN JOSE - A federal judge Wednesday rejected a Cupertino schoolteacher's claim that his free speech rights were violated when...