Judges and Judiciary
Innovative Judge Changes Compton Court's Image
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge John J. Cheroske beams with pride as he offers a sneak peak at the newl...
Forum Column - By Eric S. Daar and Judith F. Daar - President Bush recently unveiled a timetable for vaccinating the nation ag...
LOS ANGELES - Bet Tzedek held its 15th annual dinner Saturday night, raising $2.1 million for the nonprofit firm. More than 1...
LOS ANGELES - In a stunning reversal, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison decided Thursday to close its doors and possibly seek ba...
WASHINGTON - On a straight party-line vote following a politically charged debate, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday ...
LOS ANGELES - A Beverly Hills attorney who once represented such pop stars as Janet Jackson, Marvin Gaye and Run DMC was to be...
Forum Column - By Terri Towery - As an attorney in the Los Angeles County public defender's office who specializes in capital ...
LOS ANGELES - A former Valencia attorney who allegedly continued to practice law after resigning from the State Bar was arres...
SACRAMENTO - They've been called extortionists, pooper scoopers and two-bit legal whores. But have a group of lawyers being i...
Product Liability
Dog-Food Fight Throws Up a Big Breakfast for Legal Champions
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The dog's breakfast has been the subject of a class settlement in Los Angeles Superior Court. It's a ...
SACRAMENTO - Five small law firms are either under investigation by the office of state Attorney General Bill Lockyer or are ...
SACRAMENTO - If only it were true. Someone with a warped sense of humor has created a convincing but fake Web site that claim...
Judges and Judiciary
Family Law Judge Says He Prefers Mediation to Litigation
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - One day family law Judge Peter J. McBrien was faced with a choice: He could hear two domestic violence cases inv...
SAN FRANCISCO - An unrepentant Vietnamese protester shouted "human rights for Vietnam" to the cheers of a packed federal cour...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - Under the judicially created "continuing violatio...
Intellectual Property
'Flutter Faeries' Creative Pitch Results in an Implied Contract
By Jeff Berg
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Edward A. Klein - The Court of Appeal recently eased the burden on plaintiffs trying...
LOS ANGELES - A former Carson mayor and another figure in a city corruption probe agreed Wednesday to cooperate with authorit...
LOS ANGELES - Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss cannot duck a slander judgment obtained by both the two Los Angeles polic...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for a developmentally disabled group that sued the state Department of Developmental Services over the r...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether landlords must always give a 90-day notice be...
LOS ANGELES - Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss cannot duck a slander judgment obtained by both the two Los Angeles polic...
Criminal
Jury Convicts Man for Killing Police Detective
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County Superior Court jury on Tuesday convicted a man of shooting a police detective to death two year...
LOS ANGELES - The White House plans to nominate two Latinos to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a clear acknowledgmen...
Judges and Judiciary
Hitchens' Plan For Calendar Should Speed Cases Through
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Donna Hitchens, the newly appointed presiding judge of the San Francisco Superior Court, has assembled ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lori Schechter, a 41-year-old San Francisco trial lawyer, will lead Morrison & Foerster's 420-lawyer liti...
SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County Superior Court has settled a lawsuit filed 15 months ago by the San Jose Mercury News, agre...
Environmental
Environmentalists Knew It Would be Bad, But Not This Bad
By Dennis Pfaff
Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis Pfaff - The veteran eco-warriors at Earthjustice in Oakland didn't wait for George W. Bush to ...
SACRAMENTO - A tiny state commission charged with updating California law may be snipped out of existence this year in the mi...
Forum Column - By Norman E. Kjono - Does the principle of liability for promotion of products with potentially dangerous prope...
LOS ANGELES - Police Chief William Bratton's plans to get more officers into the street ran up against political reality Tues...