Forum Column - By Dana Cephas - On Aug. 10, the first day of his term in office, the new president of the American Bar Associa...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge James Otero on Monday sentenced a former officer of the Beverly Hills Bar Association to 33 ...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Leonard Edwards, who has received numerous awards for his work with juvenil...
LOS ANGELES - Furnishing new ammunition for opponents fighting the state's controversial three-strikes law, a state appeals co...
Notebook - By Craig Anderson - SAN JOSE - Someone poisoned John Sarsfield's dogs. Whisper and Sundance were fed antifreeze or ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Removes DA's Office From Jurist's Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA MARIA - A judge on Monday removed the Santa Barbara district attorney's office from the prosecution of Diana R. Hall, a ...
Criminal
After Eight-Year Wait for Trial, Man Gets Life
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - After being convicted in a trial he waited eight years in jail to get, Anthony Williams has been sentenced to 16-y...
SAN FRANCISCO - "I forgot" is not a defense for failing to register as a sex offender, the California Supreme Court ruled Mond...
Judges and Judiciary
Walker Will Inherit Fiscal Woes With Role as Chief
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - When U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker takes over Wednesday as chief judge for the Northern District, he will ...
Entertainment & Sports
Sometimes, Attorneys' Paranoid Hollywood Dreams Can Come True
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - "My law firm partners are really space aliens, and they're out to get me!" This is what I imagine pow...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County criminal conflicts panel attorneys are in a bind. They have seen their relatively low pay stagn...
SANTA ANA - A day or two after little Michelle went missing, her family packed their clothes and furniture, caged their family...
LOS ANGELES - Convicted yacht-sinker Rex DeGeorge, a man once described as "the greatest insurance scam artist" in state histo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Employers can no longer squelch harassment suits claiming that workers forfeited the right to litigate by sign...
LOS ANGELES - Federal public defenders in Los Angeles are growing increasingly anxious that a national budget freeze will prev...
Holocaust survivor Roman Rakover, 86, knows he's running out of time. But he's still struggling to claim two life insurance po...
A judge declined to hold Chowchilla's former police chief in contempt for not following a court order to return more than a po...
Technology & Science
Wireless Technology Lets Attorneys Work Al Fresco
By Claire Borthwick
Attorneys at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher's Palo Alto office have an extra option to spice up their week - they can do their wor...
Education is the name of the game for the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, says the group's president, Tony Stua...
Column - Closer - By Michael Gregg - If you think for one second that jurisprudence - the study of the law - has no applicatio...
Where would a company be without its outside counsel? As this year's Corporate Counsel Top 50 chart shows, even the behemoths ...
Deal-maker-to-the-stars Barry Hirsch ended his 24-year relationship with Hirsch Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jury Orders Sony Executive to Pay Filipino Servant $800,000
By Blair Clarkson
SANTA MONICA - One day after hitting a Sony vice president of legal affairs with a half-million-dollar judgment, a Santa Monic...
After several years of heated debate over the development of a parking lot owned by Hastings College of the Law, the school an...
The state Supreme Court recently depublished an appellate opinion that had expanded the scope of damages available for defecti...
Alerting an insurance investigator that her employer allegedly committed fraud when seeking coverage for a factory fire cost R...
Mark Goodman and Ethan Miller spent seven years at Barger & Wolen, a 70-lawyer insurance regulatory and litigation boutiqu...
Firm Watch
Tech-Savvy Attorneys Attact Work From In-House Counsel, Speaker Says
By Kenneth Davis
Attorneys hoping to be hired by in-house counsel should make sure they're up on the latest technology, attendees learned at a ...
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Steven B. Katz - Both the plaintiff and the defense bars were eagerly awaiting the state Sup...
Criminal
Social-Security-Fraud Sweep Leaves Bigger Mess Than It Ever Removed
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Forum Column - By Lara Bazelon - On July 21, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles issued a release proudly announcing the...