Forum Column - By Joe Domanick - One May morning in 1998 I was riding shotgun with Mike Reynolds as he tooled through downtown...
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - There is a fine line between appropriate job search follow-up and pestering. Prop...
Litigation
Collection-Law Expert Was Active Republican
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Services have taken place for LeMoyne "Lee" S. Badger, a longtime general practitioner who at one point was a play...
LOS ANGELES - Civil litigator Samuel W. Gordon died March 3 after a brief illness. He was 57. Gordon was known for his brillia...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court ruled Thursday that a man can pursue his lawsuit alleging Mercury Insurance Co. charged ...
LOS ANGELES - The executive director of the Beverly Hills Bar Association has stepped down, citing undue stress stemming from ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Glenn Taylor Helzer, one of two brothers accused in a series of gruesome Bay Area murders, entered a surprise ...
SAN FRANCISCO - State Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism about prosecuting a sex offender twice - once for failing to...
LOS ANGELES - Marcia Wilbur, a former dean of Western State University College of Law, died Tuesday in Orange after a brief ba...
Appellate Practice
Race Equated With Gender in Assessing Bias at Work
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Racial hostility at work must be assessed in a courtroom from the point of view of a "reasonable person" belon...
Personal Injury & Torts
Clergy-Abuse Cases in Northern California Could Come to L.A.
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charles McCoy will decide whether Northern California lawsuits alleging child m...
OROVILLE - Butte County's most senior judge, Roger G. Gilbert, decided a year ago that he needed a new challenge. So Gilbert t...
Judges and Judiciary
San Diego Agrees to Repay Pension Funds It Pilfered
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A tentative settlement that requires San Diego to contribute $629 million to its now-broke pension fund has been r...
SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous state Supreme Court ordered San Francisco officials to stop marrying same-sex couples Thursday. Th...
LOS ANGELES - There's nothing illegal about card counting, shuffle tracking and other jazzy techniques to beat the house at Ne...
RIVERSIDE - Two years ago, Parkview Community Hospital in Riverside was on the brink of shutting its doors. Unable to pay cred...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court reinstated a sexual harassment claim Wednesday brought against a Sonoma County deputy ...
Litigation
California's Secondary-Liability Limits Appear Likely to Spread
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Helen L. Duncan and Brandon C. Fernald - When the state Supreme Court declared that the consume...
Forum Column - By Grover Trask - Screwtape, the elderly retired devil in C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters," would have appre...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Much has been written about the state's Strategic Lawsuits Against ...
WASHINGTON - A ban on gay marriage isn't the only proposed constitutional amendment that is seeing action on Capitol Hill thes...
LOS ANGELES - Former federal prosecutor Manny Medrano, who carved out a local niche as a television legal analyst during the O...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Placer County judge asserted at his misconduct hearing Wednesday he was only attempting to ferret out biased...
Litigation
Panel Grants Korean-American Group Retrial in Rules Dispute
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Korean-American group will get another trial after producing new evidence to back up the board of ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court seemed reluctant Wednesday to allow property owners to be held liable for injurie...
SAN DIEGO - A report released Wednesday said technical staff and poll workers need more training in use of the new touch-scree...
HAYWARD - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert Fairwell has been handling a busy misdemeanor calendar for most of his 38...
RIVERSIDE - A Lake Elsinore mortuary has agreed to pay $150,000 to a widow for chopping up her dead husband's corpse to sell t...
LOS ANGELES - For Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jean E. Matusinka, 1993 was the year of the photography safari. On the firs...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury convicted the son of popular Bay Area food critic Narsai David on 19 of 20 counts of fraud and ...