SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court will untangle the knotty legal question of whether federal grand jurors have the power...
Employment Column - By Valerie Fontaine - Past performance often is the best indicator of how a candidate will perform. Theref...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - No deity or graffiti artist ever wrote more clearly on a wall. The Michigan Supreme Cour...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Raymond Cordozo - To litigants who believe that evidentiary objections are the proverbial white...
SAN DIEGO - The death of a city councilman indicted in a federal corruption investigation weakens the case against the other d...
IRVINE - A 16-year-old girl, the alleged victim in a statutory rape case involving the son of an assistant sheriff, sued the O...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles man convicted of a 1984 burglary, rape and murder was spared the death penalty Thursday by the C...
STOCKTON - Elizabeth Humphreys is looking for an argument. Since her days as a civil litigator, Humphreys has enjoyed the give...
Litigation
Jury Orders Ephedra Retailer to Pay $4 Million to Stroke Victim
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LOS ANGELES - In the first verdict of its kind, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury has ordered a Culver City dietary retailer t...
LOS ANGELES - In a blow against immigrant abuse, a Santa Monica jury on Thursday ordered a Sony Pictures Entertainment lawyer ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Executive Director of L.A. County Bar Puts in His Papers
By Lorelei Laird
LOS ANGELES - The longtime leader of the nation's largest voluntary regional bar organization, Rich Walch, announced Thursday ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hugo Lopez-Alvarado worked as an electrician and paid taxes in California since he arrived from Guatemala in 1...
LOS ANGELES - In his autobiography, "Rough Edges," James E. Rogan, undersecretary of Commerce and former Los Angeles County pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Billionaire investor Charles T. Munger has donated $43.5 million to Stanford University Law School to fund the...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously reaffirmed Thursday that trial judges have broad discretion to certif...
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael C. Ross had had it with those pesky "spyware" programs - a catch-all term for the computer application...
Forum Column - By Joann Lee and Susana Martinez - Recently, the U.S. Border Patrol, part of the Department of Homeland Securit...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Mark Williams - The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks ushered in a new era of security preparedness in...
Labor/Employment
Prepare Clients for Liability Risks Associated With Employees' Electronic Communications
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Janice P. Brown - In evaluating the impact of electronic communications in today's workplac...
Government
Top Court to Review Conflict Involving Herrera's Ex-Client
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera had...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Placer County judge tried to downplay the significance and impact of his suggestion to potential jurors that...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Legislature is expected to approve SB1436, an anti-spyware bill sponsored by Sen. Kevin Murray,...
REDWOOD CITY - A wave of retirements and a large number of murder prosecutions has left the San Mateo County Superior Court sc...
LOS ANGELES - A prosecutor accused the Los Angeles archdiocese of subjecting children to sexual abuse by priests to protect th...
LOS ANGELES - The family of a 34-year-old driver who died after being catapulted, seat and all, through the front window of he...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles firm filed a claim Wednesday accusing the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power of ending the ...
REDWOOD CITY - The Scott Peterson double murder trial has become the tale of the tapes - those surreptitiously recorded conver...
SAN FRANCISCO - The judge overseeing Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's bankruptcy has disqualified Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Yo...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court clerks staged a noon demonstration outside 11 courthouses to protest an impasse in co...
SAN FRANCISCO - A plaintiffs firm shouldn't be disqualified from a case just because it hired an expert witness who failed to ...