LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Tuesday refused to overturn a $3.5 million verdict from a jury that found the...
LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles attorneys charged with swindling the City of Hope cancer research and treatment center in Duarte...
LOS ANGELES - The Hispanic National Bar Association named City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo its attorney of the year at the group...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Exam's Conflict With Jewish Holiday Stirs Debate
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A quiet dispute is growing in many states, including California, over a July 2004 Bar Examination date, which fa...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Circuit Grants Leasing Firms Status to File Antitrust Suits
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a federal appeals court expanded antitrust protections Tuesday to cover a customer who buy...
SAN FRANCISCO - At age 18, John Tennison appeared to be doomed to spend the rest of his life in prison. San Francisco prosecut...
Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rappattoni - Todd Spitzer strikes some as an ambitious, energetic lawyer and lawmaker with an e...
Latham & Watkins has lured to its Los Angeles office one of the leaders of Morrison & Foerster's real estate practice...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - One family-law axiom is that, if a perso...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Recent events have made clear that "Operation Iraqi Freedom" has opened a Pandora's box of t...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Monday ordered a subsidiary of Canadian Investment Bank Corp. to pay $52 million to three inv...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Los Angeles college student to six months of electronic monitoring and fiv...
LOS ANGELES - Spouses do not have an unlimited right to discovery in post-divorce proceedings, an appeals court ruled Friday i...
LOS ANGELES - Citing their extraordinary work in warning school kids of the dangers of Internet piracy, a federal judge Monday...
RIVERSIDE - Federal prosecutors have dropped charges in a Riverside drug case after a judge ruled that a sheriff's detective v...
SAN FRANCISCO - The trial of a man charged with burglarizing a San Francisco judge's home drew to a testy close Monday. Prosec...
Law Practice
Delegates Adamantly Oppose So-Called 'Racial Privacy' Initiative
By Don De Benedictis
ANAHEIM - Lawyers meeting during the State Bar annual convention over the weekend came out strongly against the so-called "rac...
Criminal
Anatomy Lesson Leads Reporter Into Bowels of Prosecutorial Invective
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Michael Latin and Eleanor Hunter, the Los Angeles prosecutors of longtime Symbionese Liberation Army ...
Litigation
Ex-Cop Fagan Jr. Faces More than Fajitagate in Civil Court
By Tyler Cunningham
Reporter's Notebook - By Tyler Cunningham - As the people of California labor toward a criminal trial of Alex Fagan Jr. - the ...
LOS ANGELES - In the latest twist in a long-running Los Angeles murder case, a federal appeals court Monday voted 2-1 to give ...
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside Superior Court jury set legal precedent late Monday by finding a Mead Valley woman guilty of second-de...
SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly Judiciary Committee approved amendments Monday to a bill revising the state's unfair competiti...
WASHINGTON - After an historic four-hour argument Monday, the Supreme Court appeared sharply divided on whether the sweeping M...
A single mother of five took a night job at Federal Express Corp. to build a career and stability for herself. But Sandra Smit...
Defense attorneys are concerned about a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows treble damages in whistle-blower lawsuits...
Column - Corporate Law - By Dana Welch - At some point during an internal investigation into corporate wrongdoing, the Securit...
For the second time in six years, the Kay-Bee Toys chain has been slapped with an injunction for allegedly deceptive advertisi...
San Diego's Gordon & Rees has hired three new lawyers in its Newport Beach office. Partners Steve Waimey and Eduardo Bolt ...
Venture Law Group, the Silicon Valley corporate boutique that saw its fortunes rise and fall with the dot-com boom, is being a...
A Beverly Hills psychiatrist was not defamed when a prominent lawyer called her "Looney Tunes" and "mentally unbalanced" on Co...