LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lauren Weis Birnstein is as enthusiastic talking about her legal career as she ...
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert P. Andris and Elise R. Vasquez - Copyright law provides a limited form of mon...
Forum Column - By Rodney Richard Jones - The pages of legal newspapers seem to scrupulously avoid critical analysis about the ...
Immigration
Homeland Security Agency Aims to Correct Problems That Plagued INS
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Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Kathrin Mautino - On March 1, the Immigration and Naturalization Service ceased to exist. ...
Forum Column - By Rocky Delgadillo, Dennis Herrera and John Russo - Consider this: A young, single man living in San Luis Obis...
SAN FRANCISCO - Chevron USA Inc. can't use health as an excuse to refuse to hire a job applicant with a liver condition simply...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hackers broke into Thelen, Reid & Priest's Internet server this summer and caused two of the firm's Web si...
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday sent the circuit court nomination of Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $2 million to a cook with the California Youth Authority who claimed he was verba...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court said Wednesday it will decide whether corporate officers can be held personally l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two California trial teams shared the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation's national Trial Lawyer of t...
SANTA ANA - The American Civil Liberties Union sued the city Wednesday, alleging that a poll on a proposed traffic plan in ups...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan switched tactics Wednesday and dismissed grand jury indictments against thr...
LOS ANGELES - Six plaintiffs who in 1999 won what was then the largest personal injury award in U.S. history have agreed to se...
Government
Just Like Old Times: California Teeters on Brink of Multiple Disasters
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Got anarchy? Want chaos? Sometimes, living in California is like being inside a demented milk commerc...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation's 21st Anniversary Gala and awards ceremony this week did doub...
SACRAMENTO - Election law experts disagreed Wednesday with Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante's surprising contention that the Californi...
LOS ANGELES - After 21/2 years at Howrey Simon Arnold & White, insurance litigation rainmaker Kirk Pasich is leaving the f...
SAN DIEGO - Carol C. Lam took her place before reporters and television cameras that May 14 afternoon and calmly confirmed the...
Forum Column - By Howard M. Wachtel - Today's corporate scandals are a repeat of a cycle of infatuation and betrayal recurring...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By R. Mark Keenan - Your client's building has gone up in smoke from a devastating fire. It wil...
WASHINGTON - It has been a good month for the National Rifle Association. A House panel adopted a legislative provision the as...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors agreed unanimously Tuesday to order the Department of Children and F...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has barred permanently Torrance attorney Eduardo Marmolejo Rivera from promoting schemes on ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A little dog who was run over after being hurled into traffic on a rainy winter night in a notorious fit of ro...
LOS ANGELES - Leon Kaplan, a legal icon of Hollywood's Golden Age who helped transform the industry while mentoring many of to...
SAN FRANCISCO - Carmen Chang, a corporate lawyer with valuable business ties in Asia, left Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosat...
SACRAMENTO - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer sued one of the nation's largest junk fax businesses Tuesday, seeking mo...
VENTURA - In December, Dr. Xavier Caro moved back into the luxurious hilltop mansion where his former wife murdered three of ...
Forum Column By Luke McLoughlin In a front-page Sunday New York Times magazine article June 3, 2001, titled "A Majority Of On...