LOS ANGELES - Health care advocates Wednesday filed what they describe as a groundbreaking lawsuit, the second in less than a...
Reporter's Notebook - By Craig Anderson - February was a rough month for Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danse...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson, who pleaded guilty in 2001 to the attempted bombing...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government, in a new court filing, has revealed that it may buy out three-dozen offshore oil deve...
SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi said Wednesday he wants the Police Department or Board of Supervisors to pay for a...
LOS ANGELES - A man was convicted of murdering two people today in a case in which the former prosecutor is under investigati...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Lawyers' Punitives Before High Court
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A couple who blame their lawyers for failing to pursue punitive damages in a massive toxic tort case may be o...
Focus Column Bankruptcy Law By Don Robinson Bankruptcy law should not be a trap for the unwary, as Bankruptcy Courts are fond...
Judges and Judiciary
Members of Judiciary Signal Easy Confirmation for Jurists
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - After perfunctory questioning Wednesday by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, two Orange County Superior...
Entertainment & Sports
Suit Against HBO Lands 'Sopranos' Star in Shark-Infested Waters
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - A heavy-set, menacing man walks up to a Hollywood executive and waves a sheaf of papers in the execut...
Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Don Robinson - Bankruptcy law should not be a trap for the unwary, as Bankruptcy Courts are...
Forum Column - By Steven L. Schwarcz - The government needs to balance the necessity for a rigorous standard for rating agains...
LOS ANGELES - Pittsburgh's Reed Smith Crosby Heafey has tapped Peter J. Kennedy to serve as the managing partner in its Los An...
Litigation
Tobacco-Settlement Money Follows Political Priorities
By Contributing Writer
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Modisett - Kudos to Ann Woolner for her article describing the states' raiding of the 1998 Master...
LOS ANGELES - It's not easy to catch attorney Joseph D. Mandel off guard, his friends say. "He is so cool and so poised; his f...
Law Practice
Event Honors Southland Firms For Supporting Pro Bono Plan
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - The Anti-Defamation League's Pacific Southwest region will honor several individuals and a dozen law firms at i...
LOS ANGELES - Thomas C. Bennigson had just returned from a day of classes at Boalt Hall last summer when he got the telephone ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
'Little' Applies 'Armendariz' to Some Claims at Common Law
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June R. Lehrman - The California Supreme Court has decided Little v. Aut...
FAIRFIELD - The courtroom of Judge Ramona Garrett is an island of civility in the rough-and-tumble world of Solano County crim...
SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley investment banker Frank Quattrone, facing civil and criminal investigations for alleged "spinn...
SANTA ANA - Former Orange County Superior Court Judge Mark Soden died Friday of pneumonia, bringing to a close the final chap...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - One of the more esoteric issues of famil...
Forum Column - By Nancy Hogshead-Makar - Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. Sections 1681-1688, the feder...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that could result in significantly higher electricity rates for consumers in California, a federal ...
LOS ANGELES - The family of a 16-year-old gang member gunned down on rival gang members' turf just minutes after being droppe...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether attorneys who represent debtors in Chapter 7 proceedings can...
Government
Right to Be Sued Will Take a Back Seat in Courts' Doomsday Planning
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Buried deep in "The National Strategy for Homeland Security" report issued by the White House last ye...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Database Fee By Realtors Is Price-Fixing, Circuit Rules
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - San Diego Realtors violated federal antitrust laws when they combined property databases, a federal appeals c...
SACRAMENTO-The head of the state's prosecutors association announced his plans Monday to resign, saying he is leaving to beco...
Criminal
Defense Attorney Charged With Giving Drugs to Client
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Los Angeles County defense attorney has been charged with sneaking a bag of marijuana to her client during a cou...