Column - Focus on High-Profile Litigation - By Julie Campanini - Talking to the media during litigation is a delicate balancin...
SAN FRANCISCO - The publisher of Napa County's 138-year-old daily newspaper has challenged the constitutionality of a Calistog...
LOS ANGELES - The state should reimburse the San Diego Unified School District for the cost of expelling students under the re...
SAN DIEGO - A computer expert testified Wednesday that someone using the e-mail address of David A. Westerfield's son was on t...
SAN DIEGO - Steven E. Feldman goes nonstop in the courtroom. Fingers dance over a laptop computer. He pours out questions to w...
Entertainment & Sports
Models' Anorexia-of-the-Wallet Lawsuit Has Promise
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Everybody knows that fashion models eat less than most of us cholesterol-swilling proletaries. But ...
Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - The Supreme Court ruling giving public-school authorities the green light to conduct ra...
Labor/Employment
Worker Is Not Protected by Federal Law Where Job May Injure His Health
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jonathan M. Brenner - The U.S. Supreme Court continued its belt-tightening of the Americans...
LOS ANGELES - A Vista jury has ordered the state to pay $13.3 million to a permanently injured Escondido man, who was a passen...
SAN FRANCISCO - In moves that portend big changes in the resources that California law firms devote to computer technology, th...
Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Associates who are ready to change jobs should know that there are a lot of employers...
Dicta Column - Management Matters - By Blane R. Prescott - As the economy changes pace, more firms than ever are shifting thei...
Real Estate/Development
'Hackett' Preserves the Promise of Just Compensation
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Focus Column - Real Property - By Ethan K. Friedman - Code of Civil Procedure Section 1263.120 provides that the date of valua...
SAN DIEGO - Deputy District Attorney Jeff B. Dusek has his trial face on as he walks with unhurried efficiency down the corrid...
Forum Column - By Julie L. Vogt - Contrary to the contentions of critics of the U.S. Supreme Court's student drug-testing deci...
LOS ANGELES -The Church of Christ in Hollywood may not be able to silence a dissenting voice, but it can keep that voice from ...
LOS ANGELES - The law firm of Manning & Marder, Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez will sponsor a blood drive for an off-duty Los Angel...
LOS ANGELES - A defendant on the losing end of a special motion to strike under California's anti-SLAPP statute is entitled to...
LOS ANGELES - The state's judicial watchdog agency Tuesday opened a formal inquiry into allegations that a former Los Angeles ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Says Kiss With Deputy Was Consensual
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - In a written response Tuesday to accusations by the Commission on Judicial Performance, Judge Arthur Block admitte...
Government
Board Votes to Let Itself Expel Elected Officials
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - The Board of Supervisors gave itself permission in a final vote Tuesday to discipline or oust locally elected...
Constitutional Law
Thomas' Votes Offer Glimmer Of Hope to Rights Advocates
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - One thing was lost in the headline news over the U.S. Supreme Court's two landmark d...
WASHINGTON - In the blame game following the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history, some of those investigated in government...
Law Practice
Public Defenders Plan to Unionize for Better Pay
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Deputy public defenders in Riverside County have decided to unionize in an effort to gain pay and benefits parity ...
SACRAMENTO - A Los Angeles judge's ruling has highlighted a serious flaw in a landmark statute that was supposed to make it mu...
SAN DIEGO - Neighbors of David A. Westerfield on Tuesday told how they talked casually with the 50-year-old self-employed engi...
Large Firms
Lewis Brisbois Stages Raid on Sedgwick Detert, Captures 11
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - In a raid that began Tuesday, Los Angeles' Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith is expected to take as many as ...
Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit's Reversal Rate by High Court Plunges to Normal
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Things are looking up for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - at least, judging by its performance at the U.S...
Appellate Practice
Justices Settle Into Usually Predictable Voting Patterns
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - At the Supreme Court, familiarity breeds repetition. After eight terms together, the current nine justices have s...
SAN DIEGO - Two animal DNA experts testified Monday in a closed hearing that interrupted the trial of David A. Westerfield, wh...