Litigation
Jury Awards $59 Million to Girl Brain-Damaged During Birth
By Joan Osterwalder
Caitlin Greenwell is turning 3 today. The girl is permanently brain-damaged from a birth injury, but she may have a happier ce...
Yvonne Wilson says she wasn't only up against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but also her own age. The 97-year-old...
Choosing challenge over comfort, renowned litigator Kenneth Chiate has left the Los Angeles office of San Francisco's Pillsbur...
Litigation
Trial Lawyers Association Taps New Officers, Board Members
By Stefanie Knapp
The Association of Business Trial Lawyers announced its new officers and board of governors earlier this month. All members wi...
Judges and Judiciary
Davis Names Six to Benches In Three Southland Counties
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis last week continued a recent flurry of judicial appointments, naming six new judges in Los Angel...
Intellectual Property
First Open-Source Case Has Yet to Resolve Any Issues
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Laura A. Majerus - When counseling clients on matters relating to open-source licens...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $425,000 to a Locke High School art teacher who said she was retaliated against f...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Lawyer Finds Neutral Role Is 'Energizing and Empowering'
By Eron Yehuda
Many children expect to borrow money from a parent with no strings attached. But not Pasadena neutral Linda M. Lasley, who mad...
SAN DIEGO - A university detective testified Friday that Kristin M. Rossum looked "dramatically different" from her photograph...
MARTINEZ - The race for district attorney in Contra Costa County has revealed a hidden bug in the local campaign finance law. ...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - The U.S. Congress has voted overwhelmingly to authorize President Bush to use military fo...
In another high-profile bankruptcy handled by Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young & Jones, financially beleaguered software com...
SAN FRANCISCO - Citing a continuing pattern of caustic remarks and arbitrary rulings, the Contra Costa County district attorne...
SAN FRANCISCO - After three years of uncertainty, Jerry Litmon has finally learned that he is indeed a single man. His divorce...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Montana man who downloaded 1,300 pornographic images of young girls from the Internet is entitled to a 75 pe...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal watchdog agency wants to hold up millions of dollars in fees due to lawyers and consultants in the P...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two Peninsula construction companies used a sham joint venture to circumvent city regulations giving minority-...
Judges and Judiciary
Commissioner Keeps Cool on Bench
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - Commissioner Ronald G. Lorden doesn't like to embarrass attorneys. To avoid making an out-of-town lawyer look scatterb...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Halts Judge's Sex-Misconduct Hearing
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - The Commission on Judicial Performance called off a hearing in its sexual misconduct case against Riverside County Sup...
OAKLAND - Even though her well-financed opponent bowed out of the race in April, Alameda County Superior Court judicial candid...
LOS ANGELES - Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger's board of directors has elected Rick Cohen to the post of president and ...
Litigation
If Award Is Not Reduced, Philip Morris May File for Bankruptcy
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Howard N. Madris - On Oct. 4, a Los Angeles jury issued a $28 billion punitive damages verdict ...
SAN JOSE - When Eugene Pelka, a veteran manager at Lockheed Martin, stepped to the microphone 21/2 years ago to roast a longti...
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has indicted 40 Aryan Brotherhood members and associates on federal racketeering charges, a...
LOS ANGELES - Beverly Hills Sports Council cannot sue Barry Bonds' former agent and his lawyers for malicious prosecution, a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - "I was just trying to maximize the profit for Enron," said Enron's former chief energy trader in Portland, Ore...
Government
City Council Hopeful Can't Use 'Peace Activist' Label on Ballot
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Santa Monica City Council candidate Jerry Rubin is fasting to protest war on Iraq. Rubin calls peace activism hi...
Forum Column - By Richard Riordan - Los Angeles businesses are resilient. In the past decade, we have worked together to creat...
FULLERTON - When the Aztec Skydivers parachute onto the campus of California State University, Fullerton, next month, they wil...
SAN JOSE - The first criminal trial under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act could be in danger because two key Russian witn...