Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - My one-year-old son's grandfather, my dad, served in World War II on a U.S. destroyer i...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY LOS ANGELES - Janet Neman of Charles Dunn Co. brokered the dual sale of a 139-unit apartment building at 4...
Labor/Employment
Experts May Testify on Harassment Policies and Procedures of Employer
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Amy Oppenheimer - Attorneys bringing and defending workplace-harassment lawsuits should con...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - The state Supreme Court has held that a victim's conduct does not prov...
SAN DIEGO - One of the San Diego Superior Court's judicial races in the March 2 primary features five candidates, a number tha...
CLEAR LAKE - For a year, Superior Court Judge John J. Golden delayed construction of Christo's famed "Running Fence" art proje...
WASHINGTON - Members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared hesitant to police a closely watched battle over congressional...
RIVERSIDE - Rod Pacheco, a former state Assemblyman who started his career in the Riverside district attorney's office and ret...
SACRAMENTO - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision preserving soft money restrictions in federal campaigns will lessen the corrupt...
LOS ANGELES - The FBI is investigating allegations that celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano wiretapped prosecutors in a high-pr...
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury Wednesday acquitted the former chief financial officer of a defunct Southern California computer ...
Entertainment & Sports
Boxer Draws on Legal Left Hook in Quest for Heavyweight Crown
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Los Angeles boxer Vitali Klitschko's two-round demolition of Canadian Kirk Johnson Saturday night at ...
SAN FRANCISCO - At the appellate court in Riverside, attorneys are warned that a refusal to waive oral arguments in certain ca...
SAN FRANCISCO - Kamala Harris wrested the San Francisco district attorney's office from Terence Hallinan by erasing a huge nam...
Intellectual Property
Specialty Film Units, Studios Grapple With Screener Ban
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - Even as the Motion Picture Association of America prepares an appeal of the federal court ruling that overturned...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY LONG BEACH - Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels sold its 234-room Holiday Inn, Long Beach Airport, to Hilba Star LP,...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Courts Examined Pre-Emption And Unconscionability in 2003
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - This year has seen significant case law in the area of c...
Forum Column - By I. Nelson Rose - The voters want Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to redo every deal that Gray Davis made, includi...
Constitutional Law
'Ford' Targets Same Issues As Three High-Court Cases
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Wayne Allen Ford's case echoes some of the issues in three cases argued before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday...
SAN FRANCISCO - Louise Renne, who won a blockbuster settlement from tobacco companies as San Francisco's city attorney and con...
Criminal
Supervisor Plans Guilty Plea in Corruption Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A high-profile bribery case against an embattled San Bernardino County supervisor is coming to an end with a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - At least one Sacramento-based state appellate justice says courts ought to be allowed to order medical marijua...
LOS ANGELES - A mother filed suit Monday claiming she suffered tremendous emotional pain after three of her daughters were all...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday that a San Mateo County judge went too far when she took it upo...
LOS ANGELES - Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi has nabbed one-third of the attorneys from Santa Monica's Fogel, Feldman, Os...
SAN FRANCISCO - A meandering legal and procedural odyssey has finally ended for accused murderer Larry Joe McDougal, who plead...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan has appointed Joe Lynn to the city's Ethics Commission a week after Lynn re...
Intellectual Property
Rogan Ends Short Reign At the U.S. Patent Office
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - James Rogan, director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, has announced that he intends to leave his post...
LOS ANGELES - A trial court did not take into account recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it granted visitation rights to...
Litigation
Home Depot Card Holders Face Undisclosed Charges, Suit Says
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - When David Varco was remodeling a house in Arizona in February, he saw an advertisement that was too good to pass ...
