SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court says a woman suspected of abusing her blind 83-year-old mother should be able to sue ...
SAN FRANCISCO - As a gay Latino, Anthony Romero is an important voice for a wide cross-section of minorities. To civil libert...
LOS ANGELES - When his friends and colleagues talk about veteran prosecutor Kenneth Lamb, their minds turn to baseball. If La...
LOS ANGELES - When Santa Barbara County District Attorney Thomas W. Sneddon Jr., portable toilet in tow, led a posse of inves...
SAN FRANCISCO - Appellate Justice Arthur Scotland may be old enough - 57 - to join the American Association for Retired Peopl...
LOS ANGELES - Kids appearing before Superior Court Referee Stephanie M. Davis in the Inglewood delinquency court may be in fo...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY BEVERLY HILLS - David Kaufman of Marcus & Millichap is marketing a four-story apartment building built ...
LOS ANGELES - More than 1,500 members of the legal community will converge in Hollywood today to commemorate the 100th anniver...
Family
Divorcing Couple's Lawyers Should Collaborate to Facilitate Peaceful Split
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Focus Column - Family Law - By Mari J. Frank - How is it possible for a divorcing couple's attorneys to facilitate a peaceful ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Assuming Security Duty May Lead to Owner Liability
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Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - In Avila v. Jado Properties Inc., 112 Cal.App.4th 405 (2003), t...
Forum Column - By Michael S. Fields - Some of us aging attorneys recall the days when it took nearly five years to start a tri...
LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities are investigating a string of letters that threatened potential candidates with torture or d...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney violated the California Bar's Rules of Professional Conduct when he sought to buy property with a cl...
WASHINGTON - Santa Clarita attorney Allan J. Favish ran into a stone wall Wednesday at the Supreme Court in his crusade to obt...
LOS ANGELES - Karen Paull, the force behind fund-raising at the nation's largest public interest law firm, has died. She was 6...
SAN DIEGO - A state appellate court has upheld a jury award of $81,000 to a woman who was badly burned during tattoo removal i...
LOS ANGELES - Midway through trial in a commercial rental dispute this summer, Judge Craig D. Karlan did some research and dis...
Entertainment & Sports
Talking to the Enemy: Pooh Plaintiff Pours Honey on Disney Chief
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse reportedly tried to make peace over lunch. Well, not exactly. But Pa...
OROVILLE - Barely a year after winning appointment to his new job, Butte County Superior Court Judge Robert A. Glusman found h...
LOS ANGELES - The lawyer for the former chief financial officer of a Southern California computer firm told jurors in his fede...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court dealt a blow Wednesday to a key portion of a 1996 federal anti-terrorism law by declar...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland has agreed to pay $1 million plus $50,000 for counseling to a man who wa...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY LOS ANGELES - Cornerstone On Broadway LLC acquired 24,210 square feet of industrial property in the "Toy To...
LOS ANGELES - Defense lawyers and police are still reeling from a recent $33 million jury award to a black surgeon injured by...
Forum Column - By Mark Goldowitz - On Sept. 6, Gov. Gray Davis signed into law SB515, which amends California's anti-SLAPP law...
Appellate Practice
Circuit Judges Get Involved in Appellate Mediation Process
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Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Aimee Mackay and Catherine Valerio Barrad - Appellate mediation has been a feature of the 9t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Few lawyers can claim to have fought spam e-mails with as much vigor as David Kramer. The Wilson Sonsini Good...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously slapped down the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. has asked a San Jose federal court to bestow legitimacy upon its profitable but highly controvers...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been hit with a lawsuit for allegedly stiffing the state's neediest population o...