LOS ANGELES - The ugly and epic battle over Terri Schiavo's fate could have been prevented by a simple legal form that most pe...
SAN FRANCISCO - Claims of racial and religious bias in Alameda County capital murder trials are part of a much broader current...
Focus Column - International Law - By Barbara Klementz and Laura Russell - When companies go public in the United States, many...
Law Practice
Two New Commissioners Join State's Political Practices Panel
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The Fair Political Practices Commission said goodbye Monday to two of its commissioners whose terms had expired,...
SANTA ANA - The prosecutor in the death-penalty case against Alejandro Avila told a jury during opening statements Monday that...
Administrative/Regulatory
9th Circuit Will Review Police Liability Ruling
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Monday to revisit its September ruling that Los Angeles and fede...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday grappled with a federal law that prevents prison officials from imposing undue burden...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
9th Circuit Cedes Call on Arbitration Dispute to the Arbitrator
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Only an arbitrator, not a judge, can rule whether an arbitration clause in a business agreement amounts to an...
Judges and Judiciary
Rehnquist Returns to Bench to Participate in Oral Arguments
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - When the associate justices of the Supreme Court appeared Monday morning promptly at 10 a.m. for the start of the...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury awarded $7 million late last week to Jane Lin in a lawsuit stemming from injuries she suffere...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday sentenced the mother-and-son grifter team of Sante and Kenneth Kimes to life i...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a politically charged dispute over one of President Bush's judicial ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco prosecutor charged by State Bar lawyers in January with defrauding a professional bask...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday questioned whether police can be sued for how they enforced a restraining order again...
LOS ANGELES - The city of South Gate is nearing a global settlement with Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton over the firm's...
Administrative/Regulatory
9th Circuit to Reconsider Civil Rights Suit in Search for Parolee
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Monday to revisit its September ruling that Los Angeles and fed...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday threw out a racketeering lawsuit that had accused three U.S. Forest Service employees...
Judges and Judiciary
Routine Perils of Legal Career Include Ice Picks, Razor Blades, Guns
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Way back in 1987 during a sentencing hearing at the Torrance courthouse, a disgruntled client stabb...
SAN FRANCISCO - Just months after a three-way merger created DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, the massive law firm has lost three...
Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Lentz Snyder says there's more than one way for her to fight crime. In addition ...
Column - Closer - By Valerie A. Fontaine - The November 2004 passage of Proposition 71, California's stem cell research and cu...
International
Whether to Offshore Legal Work, That Is the Question
By Draeger Martinez
First it was factory workers, then software engineers and other "knowledge workers" who felt the sting from outsourcing. ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Attorney Manages to Get Arbitration Award Vacated
By Eron Yehuda
Vacating an arbitration award is nearly impossible. But Beverly Hills attorney Julie Waldman recently pulled it off, saving he...
Desert AIDS Project is a Palm Springs charity that benefits from the general public's understanding and sympathy for HIV-affec...
If Philadelphia-based Cozen O'Connor was writing a help-wanted ad, it might read as follows: "Wanted, world-class lawyers, sma...
Jeffrey Cawdrey is one of the few San Diegans who's seen the negative side of the county's booming economy. Cawdrey, a bankrup...
Money, money, money - money. The Scene couldn't help but hum the catchy song while perusing the rows of items up for bid at th...
Litigation
Health Care Provider Wins $8 Million Award From Insurer
By Draeger Martinez
A Texas-based health care provider won an $8 million arbitration award after it proved that insurance company PacifiCare, also...
INDUSTRIAL PLEASANTON - D&K purchased an 18,000-square-foot industrial building at 3526 Investment Blvd. from the T. Whit...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda Superior Court Judge John True III has a good bloodline for a judge. But nothing in the genes of this ...