LOS ANGELES - An Irvine developer Wednesday filed a petition for a rehearing of an appellate decision that could allow its pa...
LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles on Monday cut a check for just under $1 million to a bystander shot by members of the co...
LOS ANGELES - Steven Nolan still looks like a cop. The thick mustache trails downward into a goatee. The full head of hair is ...
SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Thierry Colaw on Wednesday heard an unhappy investor's petition to force Merri...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Improving Health Care Requires First Recognizing Its Problems
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Gottlieb - The health care affordability crisis can be summed up in two words: unsustainable infl...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - The 3rd District Court of Appeal in Rieger v. Arnold , 2002 ...
EL CENTRO - TRI Capital Co. Inc. structured an FHA 223 $6.12 million refinance on behalf of the owners of the 272-unit Posada...
LOS ANGELES - A couple of tips from veteran Judge Charles E. Frisco on ruling from the bench: Be independent, and be mindful o...
Forum Column - By Bess Blank - Usually legislation that affects litigation procedure is of little interest to anyone other tha...
In a case of first impression, the Review Department of the State Bar Court has recommended that an immigration lawyer be susp...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday revised the department's pursuit policy, which would put a...
LOS ANGELES - One day after the mayor and chief of police released a truckload of raw data on police stops, experts and advoca...
SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster launched a new Hebrew-language Web site Tuesday to better cater to its Israeli techno...
SAN FRANCISCO - A new presiding judge has installed the old regime in the San Francisco Superior Courts' law and motion depar...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two former Cooley Godward partners in Kirkland, Wash., have landed in the Seattle office of San Francisco's O...
SAN FRANCISCO - An arbitrator has awarded $138,740 to a San Rafael lawyer after finding that another attorney attacked him in ...
SAN JOSE - Justice Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian, whose tenure as acting presiding justice of the 6th District Court of Appeal ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has refused to allow Kim Boyd, the widow of a slain Pelican Bay State Prison inmate, to expan...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Developments Affect Arbitrator Disclosure and Contractual ADR
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - It's been another year of significant developments in al...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Justice John E. Benson of the 1st District Court of Appeal has died following a lingering illness. Ben...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Tuesday to let stockholders sue for securities fraud on the g...
SAN FRANCISCO - Edsell "Chip" Eady Jr., the former head of Foley & Lardner's Northern California public finance group, joi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Joseph Remcho argued twice before the California Supreme Court over redistricting issues and succeeded both t...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Investors Bypass Arbitration by Taking Securities Firms to Court
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - Faced with securities firms' rejection of California's tough new disclosure rules for arbitrators, disgruntled ...
Law Practice
Los Angeles Achieves Cesspool Status Among Judicial Hades Craters
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - It's official. Los Angeles is a hellhole. A judicial hellhole, to be exact. That's the opinion of the...
VENTURA - Wealthy date-rape suspect Andrew Luster failed to show up in court for his trial Monday, forcing a judge to declare ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge backed off holding the city of Los Angeles in contempt Monday after a city official pledged that...
LOS ANGELES - African-Americans and Hispanics driving or walking in the city of Los Angeles are far more likely than whites to...
LOS ANGELES - In the final weeks of 2002, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton and some of his top command staff held meet...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Violation of Ethical Rule Does Not Result in Attorney Liability
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Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - Looking back on 2002, perhaps the most interesting of the large number of...