You like potato and I like potahto. Let's call the whole thing off. If it were only that easy. Couples calling it quits are u...
LOS ANGELES - Of the 40 cases slated for any given day in downtown Los Angeles' Division 20U, one might involve a graffiti spr...
Kelly Crabb has negotiated entertainment deals for big-name musicians like Paul McCartney and Dave Matthews and for the produc...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - After a marriage falls apart, there are plenty of mediators offering their services, ready to me...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Plus: The Good and Bad of the Collaborative Law Movement
By Joan Osterwalder
Divorce lawyers specializing in collaborative law tout their practice as a cheaper, faster and less combative alternative to l...
A San Francisco couple, together for 27 years, has been forced to spend the last eight months apart because of a job. Daniel K...
Litigation
The Top-Ten List of Things You Shouldn't Say in Court
By Contributing Writer
Column - Courtroom Etiquette - By Douglas G. Carnahan - New lawyers need to know the rule against hearsay and what the grounds...
California law firms continue to expand into China. Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and Morrison & Foerster are the ...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - The Carson Harbor Village Mobile Home Park should be renamed the "Peri...
Forum Column - By Julia Harumi Mass - On April 7, 2003, Oakland police used "less-than-lethal" weapons against peaceful anti-w...
Forum Column - By Thomas W. Hiltachk - After five years in office, Gray Davis clearly has governed without any vision; he simp...
LOS ANGELES - The Western Center for Law and Poverty has broken last year's fund-raising records for the annual Garden Party, ...
State Bar Notebook - By Don J. DeBenedictis - Judiciary officials plan to bring together groups of lawyers and judges soon to ...
LOS ANGELES - A recent decision by Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi to slash a proposed rate increase by a major medical-...
COLTON - A federal appeals court has decided that former Mayor Karl Gaytan must pay the city of Colton the $61,000 in bribe mo...
WASHINGTON - Lawyers for two groups that attempted to keep Proposition 54 off the Oct. 7 recall ballot are disappointed with t...
LOS ANGELES - Five years ago, Western State University College of Law in Fullerton won provisional accreditation from the Amer...
Product Liability
Plaintiff's Claims in Seat-Belt Case Will Test Ford's Defense
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - A trial in Chatsworth pitting a disabled 12-year-old against the Ford Motor Co. could expose the automotive gian...
LOS ANGELES - The district attorney's office asked a retired judge Friday to make public his decision on whether to force the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The only IBM Selectric II typewriter still in existence in the San Francisco Superior Courts can be found clea...
SACRAMENTO - A federal appeals panel on Thursday affirmed racketeering and conspiracy convictions against 11 members of the no...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Jeffrey Isaac Ehrlich - Diamond Woodworks v. Argonaut Insurance Co. , 109 Cal.App.4th 10...
Employment Column - By Gail Kaneshiro - Rebuilding Iraq will be costly. According to Asia Times, "the United Nations Developme...
Forum Column - By Alan D. Pauw - Coverage of the election to recall Gov. Gray Davis consists mostly of high-octane political r...
SAN FRANCISCO - A bitter consumer health fight over second-hand tobacco smoke in hotels has coughed up a new lawsuit - this on...
SACRAMENTO - The state Legislature sent two bills to the governor Thursday that would enable public prosecutors to sue publicl...
Personal Injury & Torts
Disabilies Act Demands Action, Kennedy Says
By Don De Benedictis
ANAHEIM - Ted Kennedy Jr. sometimes tells people that he is glad that he lost a leg to cancer 30 years ago when he was 12. "I ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn has admitted violating the city's campaign finance laws in his 2001 election, an...
RIVERSIDE - In closing arguments in an unusual Riverside murder trial, a prosecutor Thursday portrayed the defendant as a drug...
LOS ANGELES - A group of parents has dropped a lawsuit challenging a school tolerance program that they said violated their ri...