Column Trial Practice By Robert S. Blumberg While attorneys and judges may spend a lot of time contemplating the nuances of a...

By Amy K. Spees Two former Computer Science Corp. employees last month filed a pioneering wage-and-hour suit in federal court...

POLITICS By Marc Humbert Associated Press Writer New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been going back and forth to Was...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda The Black Historical Society of San Diego is fighting to protect five downtown buildings that a developmen...

With fewer judges entering ADR now than a few years ago, providers are fighting to ink the best and brightest to exclusive con...

By Amy K. Spees The Los Angeles Unified School District will have to pay $22 million for a South Los Angeles parking lot the ...

Mark A. Weiss Superior Court Commissioner Los Angeles (Van Nuys) Career highlights: Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner, ...

THOUSAND OAKS - The law firm Weston, Benshoof, Rochefort, Rubalcava & MacCuish represented the landlord, Arbur-Thousand Oa...

By Claude Walbert Voters from the 7,000-member San Diego County Bar Association have elected five directors for the 2004-06 t...

By Robin Davidson Jokes about California's newly elected governor and shots at the Bush administration's war in Iraq were com...

By Amy K. Spees Los Angeles Police Commissioner Silvia Saucedo has joined the ranks of associates at business and real estate...

By Claude Walbert Superior Court Judge James P. Gray has taken an unpaid leave of absence from the Orange County bench to cam...

By Toni Vranjes Costa Mesa's Emulex Corp. recently enlisted the help of Palo Alto partner Gregory Smith to complete its $310 ...

Column Corporate Law By John J. Selbak In the late 1990s, many large firms increased their billing rates to more than $500 an...

RIVERSIDE - When retired Riverside Judge Victor Miceli took a walk through the city's oldest cemetery last year, he was disgu...

By Liz Valsamis San Francisco's Gordon & Rees has picked up all five attorneys from intellectual property boutique Brown ...

Focus Column Insurance Law By Mary Craig Calkins Policyholders pay high premiums to insurers to protect against losses. The p...

Forum Column By Shelton M. Vaughan Opponents of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act recognize that they have lost their case i...

SAN BERNARDINO - Services have been held for Ralph Harry Prince, who served as city attorney of San Bernardino for 28 years. ...

LOS ANGELES - In his day job, John Monaghan is a Los Angeles deputy district attorney, whose confrontations with bad guys are...

MADERA - Superior Court Judge Edward P. Moffat didn't earn the nickname "Fast Eddie" for nothing. The 57-year-old jurist hear...

By Stefanie Knapp The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund celebrated its 35th anniversary in style with a bla...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda Oceanside is facing a $1 million discrimination claim brought by a lawyer for the city who claims he can't...

Forum Column By Margaret Crosby Imagine that you need an operation to prevent serious health problems - but the government has...

LOS ANGELES - For the first time in a decade, Levont Guillory spent Thanksgiving with his mother. Since 1993, the 32-year-old ...

SAN DIEGO - Devotees of painting and sculpture from far and wide come to the city's internationally renowned Museum of Art, bu...

Forum Column - By Susanna Dokupil - Critics of state Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, President Bush's nominee for t...

Employment Column - By J. Kevin Lilly - California employment law is filled with examples of the law of unintended consequence...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Over the last several years, courts have curtailed significantly the Four...

Forum Column - By Susan Lerner - It is time for supporters of Janice Rogers Brown's nomination to the U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...