Personal Injury & Torts
Injury Shatters Athlete's Dreams
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Bryan Mason felt something "pop" in his lower back last year as he lifted 625 pounds in a high-school weight-train...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has thrown out a malicious prosecution lawsuit brought by one set of attorneys against a...
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Daniel L. McConaughy and Chad C. Coombs - Real options include nonfinancial attributes and b...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed three new judges for Orange and San Diego counties. Kerry Wells, a deputy district...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif has recruited securities, health care and commerc...
BASS LAKE - Being the judge in a one-judge town like Bass Lake, population 400, might not sound as exciting as prosecuting hig...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner gets some of the most horrific cases in the county in her cou...
Forum Column - By Joseph Herman, Peter K. Stris and Jason H. Wilson - On Jan. 1, 2003, SB1156 and AB2596 will take effect. The...
LOS ANGELES - A temporary restraining order issued last week came too late to stop a Chicago art collector from shipping a Naz...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday made six new judicial appointments, including the elevation of Justice Dennis M. Per...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Group Is Divided On Conflict of Interest
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - It was a rare moment of high drama at the Santa Clara County Bar Association's monthly meeting. In dispute was a pr...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County has agreed to pay $125,000 to settle a domestic violence victim's unusual lawsuit accusing autho...
Criminal
Death Row Records Founder Knight Gets Another Chance to Perform in Slammer
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Counting today, this year has five whole days to go. But it's already time for the Marion "Suge" Knig...
Forum Column - By Arthur B. Mark III - In his Forum piece of Nov. 22 ("States, Not U.S., Should Have Right to Regulate Doctors...
Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin - To cut costs, the owner of an attorney service wants to make his couriers independe...
SAN FRANCISCO - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is maintaining profits but risks damaging its reputation among clients a...
Judges and Judiciary
Service in Africa Prepared Jurist for Career
By Christina Landers
BELLFLOWER - When Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Leland H. Tipton entered the Peace Corps in 1967, he had no idea tha...
LOS ANGELES - Immigrant advocacy groups are filing a class action in Los Angeles federal court, trying to halt detentions and ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Difficult clients are a frequent topic of chatter around the San Francisco's Hall of Justice. But, few stories...
SACRAMENTO - A state trial judge violated a man's due process rights when he refused to issue a jury instruction on entrapmen...
Labor/Employment
State Law on Layoff Notification Similar to Federal WARN Act
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and Eric C. Schwettmann - While closely related in scope and intent to...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The Los Angeles County Superior Court has the largest family law department in California....
SAN JOSE - One year after he was elevated by Gov. Gray Davis to the 6th District Court of Appeal, Conrad Rushing was appointe...
LOS ANGELES - Murray M. Fields, the last surviving name partner of Los Angeles's Buchalter Nemer Fields & Younger, died De...
Entertainment & Sports
Private Eye's Recent Woes Hint That Everyone's Guilty of Something
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Monday, two days before Christmas, Anthony Pellicano, the private eye to the stars, made a holiday wi...
LOS ANGELES - For the first time, the State Bar of California will seize an attorney's business assets to repay bar funds that...
SAN FRANCISCO - Reaction to the Boalt Hall dustup has inflamed passions on the Internet, as posters to Web forums choose ideo...
Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - On Dec. 16, by an equally divided court, the Supreme Court affirmed a decision by the 9th ...
SAN JOSE - David Davies, who has run the Santa Clara County district attorney's office homicide and sexual assault unit since...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis on Monday appointed two Southland Superior Court judges and a San Diego federal magistrate judge...