LOS ANGELES -A preliminary hearing will resume next Monday for a former Beverly Hills attorney accused of stealing a $380,000 ...
Judges and Judiciary
Juvie Bench Officer's Dual Role Concerns 2nd District Justices
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Justices at the 2nd District Court of Appeal were skeptical last week about the dual role played by Sanford Joss...
Judges and Judiciary
Judging Just the Latest Way Ichikawa Helps Community
By Linda Rapattoni
FAIRFIELD - In 1969, Garry Ichikawa got bored sitting around Fort Carson, Colo., waiting for something to do in a U.S. Army co...
Appellate Practice
Lawyer Cites New Ban on Executing Retarded
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The attorney for a man charged in the killing last year of a Riverside police officer said Friday that the recent ...
LOS ANGELES - To hear some Los Angeles litigators tell it, Judge Robert M. Letteau has been God's gift to Superior Court. For ...
Focus Colum - By Stephen M. Loeb - Federal tax law classifies corporations as C corporations or S corporations. C corporations...
LOS ANGELES - Latino advocates are weighing in on whether to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court the recent dismissal of their vo...
Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - In the weeks after Sept. 11, President Bush created a new White House position called d...
Focus Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - It's that time of the year again. Summer is near and tragedy is in the air. Accidental ...
On May 7, a panel of experts gathered at Fulbright & Jaworski in Los Angeles to discuss recent developments in antitrust l...
Although mediation has gained popularity in recent years in the United States as a way to avoid litigation, on an internationa...
Not even the threat of terrorism deterred San Francisco attorney Richard M. Heimann from pursuing a recent class action agains...
Column By Robert D. Crockett - Imagine this: attorney Jones defends his corporate client, Acme Industries, against an unfair c...
Dr. Robert Briner, 72, has had an incredible career in law and international dispute resolution, and he doesn't appear to be s...
Labor/Employment
Proposed Bill Would Protect Most Information From Reference Checks
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Mark A. Romeo - Most California law firms understand the benefit of conducting background checks on new...
Column by Jay Calkins - Trade secret law is a frequently overlooked and underused form of intellectual property protection. In...
Attorney Lorraine M. Brennan never imagined that a bachelor's degree in French literature from Cornell University would come i...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court ban on executions of individuals with mental retardation creates a murky scenario for the...
WASHINGTON - In a historic decision reversing a quarter-century of death penalty jurisprudence, the Supreme Court on Thursday ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Declaratory Relief Isn't Available For Decisions of Commission
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Daniel A. Olivas - Carl sipped his tall, double-shot, decaf cappuccino as he edited the first draft of a ple...
SAN FRANCISCO - Patrick Servantes, the city's tow truck driver from hell, has two wheels in the ditch thanks to a U.S. Supreme...
Zoning, Planning and Use
San Francisco to Reform Citizen's Arrest Procedure
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - City officials have agreed to reform San Francisco's citizen's arrest procedures and pay $151,424 to end a lon...
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo appears ready to leverage his contract enforcement powers to ensure that the city...
SACRAMENTO - The Supreme Court's ban on executing the mentally retarded has suddenly revived hopes of passing a bill in the Le...
SAN FRANCISCO - Cindy Hess, a corporate partner who has focused on technology start-ups, joined Fenwick & West in Menlo Pa...
LOS ANGELES - Returning to private law practice but not to his former law firm of Irell & Manella, technology lawyer and e...
WASHINGTON - Sacramento Superior Court Judge Morrison Cohen England Jr. was unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Commi...
SAN DIEGO - A police DNA analyst testified Thursday that blood from slain 7-year-old Danielle van Dam was on the carpet in Dav...
LOS ANGELES - Margaret A. Barreto-Morehouse, a 22-year-veteran prosecutor who rose to become special assistant to former Distr...
LOS ANGELES - A former Beverly Hills attorney accused of embezzling nearly $400,000 in life insurance proceeds from the sons o...