LOS ANGELES - Alleged murderers, rapists, child molesters, armed robbers - they've all passed through Los Angeles Superior Cou...
By Jeff Berg Entertainment Editor Today JAZZ - The Jazz Bakery in Culver City presents crooner Freddy Cole at 8 p.m. and 9:30...
Forum Column - By Miranda D. Junowicz - In his article on Berkeley's battle with the Sea Scouts, "The Blessings of Liberty: Ci...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Adam C. Abrahms - The Bureau of Labor Statistics, in "Union Trends...
Corporate
Contract Language Avoiding Liability For Interest May Not Protect Clients
By Columnist
Focus Column - Business Law - By Michaelbrent Collings - Interest is a big deal. It may not seem like much to someone getting ...
LOS ANGELES - After three decades serving the law department of Unocal Corp., Dennis P.R. Codon has left the El Segundo-based ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Ksenia Tsenin ruled Wednesday in favor of unsealing the vast majority of the grand jury t...
Environmental
Tree Sitting in Humboldt County: One Way to Pass Time Before War
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - From my perspective in downtown Los Angeles - where asphalt, concrete and contentiousness grow in lus...
SACRAMENTO - California prosecutors rejected the notion Wednesday that the state may have innocent inmates on death row and ba...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether it's kidnapping when a badge-toting phony secu...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied charges that he cannot be fair in judging a lawsuit over ...
SAN JOSE - James F. Boccardo, a legendary personal injury lawyer who was one of the first attorneys to win million-dollar jury...
Forum Column - By Mark T. Clark - Many people harbor doubts about the war with Iraq. These people don't fully understand that ...
Forum Column By Stephen Yagman "[M]y secret opinion of this country: its follies, vices, grievous disappointments ... I believ...
Attorneys first setting foot in Judge Robert L. Dondero's courtroom may feel a little intimidated. First, there's his appearan...
RIVERSIDE - Bernard J. Schwartz uses a football analogy to describe the way his experience as one of Riverside Superior Court'...
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Estate of McAdams , 104 Cal.App.4th 1221 (20...
Judges and Judiciary
AG Owes Judge Apology for Probing His San Quentin Visit
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Forum Column - By Stephen R. Reinhardt - Professor Laurie L. Levenson's recent column about Judge Alex Kozinski astonished me....
Forumn Column - By Duffy Carolan - Since January 2001, the California Rules of Court have required a noticed motion, a hearing...
LOS ANGELES - In an unusual defense win, U.S. District Judge Consuelo Marshall has ruled that hundreds of photos of naked boys...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County surgeon recovering from hip surgery filed an eight-count civil rights lawsuit against American Ai...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-area couple can pursue a lawsuit against an insurance company lawyer who they allege tricked them ...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Thursday for Benjamin M. Paik, a fifth-year associate at the Los Angeles offi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Refusing to brook further delay, a trial judge ordered Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's new counsel Tuesday to...
LOS ANGELES -Labeling the recent Skid Row police sweeps "witch hunts," the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild Tuesday filed a...
Judges and Judiciary
S.F. Commissioner Richard Best Retires 'Because I Can'
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Richard Best, a San Francisco court commissioner for 30 years and the court's resident expert on technology an...
Reporter's Notebook - By Robert Selna - The arguments about public access to information in the police cover-up case are start...
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans on Tuesday failed in their third attempt to end the Democratic filibuster on the nomination of...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Conference Requests Help for Busy Bench Officers
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The policy-making body for the federal courts has voted to ask Congress to create 57 new judgeships this year, in...
LOS ANGELES - Inglewood police raised concerns about several of their police officers years before one of them was videotaped ...