LOS ANGELES - A unanimous Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded three deaf men $24,000 after a legal fight with an insur...
SAN JOSE - An accused child molester has been allowed to withdraw his guilty pleas after a Santa Clara County judge concluded ...
LOS ANGELES - He made a ruling two years ago that could cost the state billions in property tax revenue. Last year, Orange Sup...
SAN FRANCISCO - In light of the state's budget crisis, some California judges are concerned they may lose the lucrative supple...
Two Spanish-language newspapers are combining to target the nation's growing Latino population, and two teams of Southern Cali...
LOS ANGELES - In 19 years presiding over juvenile delinquency cases, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Morton O. Rochman has se...
Forum Column - By James C. Turner and Suzanne M. Mishkin - In a proposal of breathtaking scope, State Bar members are pushing ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Apology Without Admission of Fault Can Be Sincere, Effective
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Jeff Kichaven - What does mediation have in common with love? Well, accordi...
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Many associates who have accepted offers at other firms and tender their resignat...
LOS ANGELES - First Amendment litigator Gary Bostwick has left the Los Angeles office of Davis Wright Tremaine for Sheppard, M...
SANTA ANA - Cybercafe owners can be forced to impose a daytime curfew on minors, provide security and videotape patrons, a sha...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a Bush administration request to prevent a Guantnamo Bay terrorism suspect fro...
Appellate Practice
Former Attorney Gets 10 Years For Bilking Clients of $2 Million
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - In one of the steepest penalties imposed in Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley's crackdown on corrupt la...
Appellate Practice
Activists Can't Dictate Clinic's Advice to Patients
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A group of activists can't force Planned Parenthood to tell women that abortion is unsafe and has been linked to...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Diego cop who stripped and masturbated for a homemade video he sold on eBay can sue the authorities who ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Five years ago, Judge A. Wallace Tashima donned black tie instead of his usual black robe and had the thrill o...
Litigation
Lack of Sidewalks Caused Teen's Death, Lawsuit Says
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
FONTANA - Karen Medina was struck and killed by a car two years ago as she walked home from A.B. Miller High School with some ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Opponents of China's one-child family policy may be entitled to asylum even if they have not been sterilized a...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - Effective July 1, the rules regarding the duty of a California lawyer to maintain client ...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey M. Tanenbaum and Michael P. O'Bresly - During the waning months of his administrati...
Securities
Clash Between State Bar Rules and Rules of SEC Puts Attorneys in Bind
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Focus Column - Securities Law - By Charles S. Doskow - Lawyers who practice before the Securities and Exchange Commission - an...
LOS ANGELES - Fish & Richardson will acquire the bulk of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's San Diego patent prosecutio...
Judges and Judiciary
U.S. Sentencing Commission Leader Will Relinquish Post
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The head of the U.S. Sentencing Commission is stepping down at the end of the month to devote more time to her ca...
SANTA ANA - Attorney and pilot, Countess Pease Jeffries lived an extraordinary life, say friends, cut short by an illness few ...
Entertainment & Sports
Public Defenders' Attack on Delgadillo Gives Nitpicking a Bad Name
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Sometimes a tempest in a teapot is caused by a dangerous combination of sour grapes and lamebrains. S...
LOS ANGELES - Harry L. Hupp, who served as a federal and state judge in Los Angeles for 32 years, died late Tuesday after suff...
LOS ANGELES - In October, federal agents arrested an 85-year-old Garden Grove man preparing to board a plane at Los Angeles In...
SAN FRANCISCO - Saying that a plaintiff's expert witness was too opinionated at trial, an appellate court Wednesday reversed a...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Kamala Harris says she looks forward to working with the Innocence Project to determine whet...
SAN FRANCISCO - Wading into another of Attorney General Bill Lockyer's battles in the federal pre-emption arena, the Californi...