Juvenile
Veteran Fought Vigorously for Legal Principles
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A memorial service will take place Saturday in Riverside for Eugene Robert Thomas, a veteran of the U.S. Navy...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County officials have agreed to pay the promoter of the nation's largest gun show $1.6 million to se...
Judges and Judiciary
Surfer Judge Has Decisive Manner, Peaceful Zen Style
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Robert P. O'Neill prosecuted some mighty bad characters in his decade as a deputy district attorney, including t...
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Terence McCormick - On Aug. 29, 2002, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued final ru...
BERKELEY - Judge Jeffrey Tauber has played to all kinds of crowds during his 30-year career. Tauber has appeared before congre...
Forum Column - By David L. Brandon - In "1984," George Orwell described one of the most frightening worlds ever conceived in l...
SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera has tapped Farella Braun & Martel of San Francisco to litigate a controversi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ivory tower combat over tenure for a Muslim scholar at California State University, Hayward escalated Wednesd...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Employment cases are not like fender-bender cases. One simply cannot e...
Labor/Employment
Employers Should Anticipate And Defend Retaliation Claims
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Katherine S. Catlos - If employment law claims can be characterized as weapons, retaliation...
LOS ANGELES - Sean Penn may be against a war with Iraq, but that's not stopping him from waging his own legal battle with asp...
Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - What if a city charged Democrats, but not Republicans, to use a city facility? That might s...
Entertainment & Sports
Fairy Tale Puppet Asks Court for Second Life as Resurrected Lawsuit
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - An attorney for a famous movie director is trying to jump-start Pinocchio with a defibrillator. In a...
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge's ruling that allows the defendant in a murder case to challenge the prosecution's evidenc...
SAN FRANCISCO - Any way you slice it, carving up a law firm is a messy proposition. Even the smallest firm that fails must co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Three of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's largest remaining practice groups found new homes Wednesday, as th...
SAN FRANCISCO - At Anthony Taylor's Los Angeles murder trial 12 years ago, the state's two chief witnesses both recanted the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Despite repeated warnings from city health and building officials, longtime San Francisco Deputy Public Defen...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Circuit Strikes AT&T's Consumer Contracts
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals panel handed a landmark arbitration victory to seven million California consumers Tuesday, ...
LOS ANGELES - If Hollywood moguls are casting around for a sequel to the hit Leonardo DiCaprio movie, "Catch Me If You Can," ...
From Staff Reports SAN FRANCISCO - Friends will celebrate the life and career of feminist attorney and Equal Rights Advocates...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles today is expected to become the largest city in the nation to force city contractors to extend bene...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey C. Eglash - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners - the civilian body charged with overseein...
LOS ANGELES - Accusing Lyon & Lyon of squandering money on attorney and staff salaries, a landlord owed $2.7 million by t...
LOS ANGELES - Another partner from Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, the debt-laden San Francisco firm that intends to shut it...
SACRAMENTO - For the second year in a row, criminal defense lawyers are trying to pass a bill in the Legislature that would i...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Disclosure Rules May Apply to Party-Appointed Arbitrators
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - A well-drafted arbitration clause will specify the numbe...
LOS ANGELES - A government-funded community bank founded to foster development in riot-ravaged South Central Los Angeles does...
LOS ANGELES - Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young & Jones, the uber-bankruptcy boutique with offices in California, New York a...
LOS ANGELES - Product liability and medical malpractice attorney Alexander B.T. Cobb died Jan. 4 in a car accident near his h...