LOS ANGELES - Four years ago, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office extradited the mother-and-son grifter team, Sa...
SAN JOSE - In bringing fraud charges against a sales executive of Legato Systems Inc., lawyers at the Securities and Exchange ...
LOS ANGELES - A U.S. appellate judge said he is "outraged" that a 9th Circuit committee adopted a rule punishing complainants ...
Former Arnold & Porter partner Craig Hentschel joined the five attorneys at the Pasadena outpost of Detroit-based Dykema G...
LOS ANGELES - Ten years after O.J. Simpson's criminal trial, its legacy is felt not in the courtroom but in the newsroom and t...
LOS ANGELES - For now, Richard Ozar still owns and operates the Victoria Village Pharmacy in Ventura. With a 33-count federal ...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Roxana Yang started a solo practice at her home in Los Altos Hills in November 2001, she had no apprehens...
SAN FRANCISCO - When lawyers arrange with clients that their legal fees will be paid out of prospective civil lawsuit recoveri...
Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - Mary is going out on a workers' compensation leave of absence, and she wants to...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Timing of Mediation Is Just as Important as Picking of Neutral
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By John Seitman - The notion that timing is a large part of success or failure...
SAN FRANCISCO - A divided appeal court said Thursday that public confidence in the integrity of the judicial system requires t...
Appellate Practice
Justices Strike Sentence of Drug Defendant
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A state appellate court has struck a drug defendant's sentence, saying the judge in the case engaged in "illegal p...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge certified as a class action Thursday the civil rights lawsuit against San Francisco county jai...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Probing Judicial System Eyes Complaints About Judges
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The new committee appointed by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to study how the federal judicial system is dea...
LOS ANGELES - Five years ago, former District Attorney Gil Garcetti rejected a Los Angeles sheriff's case accusing Orange Coun...
SAN FRANCISCO - Government tax attorneys might be well advised to have IRS agents wear sunglasses to reduce the "glare" factor...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Sunday in Georgia for David W. Carroll, professor emeritus at USC Law School. Carroll, ...
American Online Inc. has settled its copyright dispute with science fiction author Harlan Ellison, four months after a federal...
SACRAMENTO - A respected Sacramento jurist has been accused in a lawsuit of abusing his authority by seeking to punish a young...
SAN FRANCISCO - On the heels of a fourth departure in two weeks, the remaining partners in Clifford Chance's San Francisco off...
LOS ANGELES - Lerach Coughlin Stoia & Robbins, the firm that formed after the West Coast partners of Milberg Weiss Bershad...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court cannot deny a defendant the right to file a peremptory challenge against his judge be...
Personal Injury & Torts
AG Alleges Mishandling Of Prop. 65 Settlements
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer, launching the most serious set of allegations ever against plaintiffs active in...
SAN FRANCISCO - Defense attorneys for an alleged Guantanamo Bay spy are worried that military investigators will continue to s...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mary Thornton House should have been on vacation May 24. Instead, she was in he...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By F. M. Bud Ferrer - Last year, courts at opposite ends of the country ruled for the first tim...
Forum Column - By Saul Landau - Amnesty International's annual report, released in May, said, "The poor and the marginalized a...
Criminal
'Crystaplex' Clarifies Liability if One Recipient Steals Joint Check
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Focus Column - Business Law - By Michaelbrent Collings - Construction contracts are a fluid thing. Changes often occur at the ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Courts will remain open Friday, while the federal courts will be closed to all but emergenc...
SAN DIEGO - In the first Iraqi prisoner-abuse civil action, a New York-based human rights organization filed a federal lawsuit...