Dicta Column - By The Rodent - Recently, there has been much attention in the news about certain people from the sports world ...
Dicta Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - Attorneys use a variety of methods for business development, which include rela...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Los Angeles County intend to appeal a jury's award of $650,000 to each of the parents of a man who d...
SACRAMENTO - An anti-terrorism package backed by the state's district attorneys cleared a key legislative hurdle Tuesday after...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sonoma County agreed Tuesday to pay $1 million to settle federal civil rights claims by the estate of Maria Te...
SAN DIEGO - A police forensic specialist testified Tuesday that she collected evidence from the body of slain second-grader Da...
LOS ANGELES - The Anti-Defamation League has tapped public sector lawyer and former City Attorney Amanda Susskind as the nonpr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Minutes after Marjorie Knoller's second-degree murder conviction was set aside Monday, an indignant prosecutor...
LOS ANGELES - A Beverly Hills lawyer was sentenced Tuesday to 90 months in federal prison for trying to sink a yacht off the c...
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Susan Harriman is upset about a $300 million verdict a Los Angeles jury made last week against her clie...
LOS ANGELES - David Sconce, former co-proprietor of the notorious Pasadena Lamb Funeral Home and recipient of an unusual life ...
Judges and Judiciary
Gay Judge, Former Priest Believes in Being Himself
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN JOSE - When Randolf Rice's 13-year-old son, Pasha, learned the San Jose Mercury News was going to run a story about Rice'...
LOS ANGELES - After more than three months of delays that culminated in grand jury subpoenas, the Los Angeles Catholic Archdio...
HAYWARD - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Winifred Smith got to know the juvenile justice system well in her 26 years in t...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge tentatively ruled Tuesday that county police officers are entitled to $60 mil...
LOS ANGELES - The defense won a major round in the Robert Blake murder case Tuesday when a Los Angeles Superior Court judge al...
VENTURA - State corrections officials may hold the key to the fate of a Ventura attorney convicted of molesting a girl three d...
Litigation
ImClone Stock Flimflam, the Nadir of Scandals, Rides Backs of Dying
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - In this life, most of us expect to be cheated, lied to and flat out ripped off by a wide variety of s...
SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland attorney Paul Rein should be forgiven for feeling like someone's out to get him. Someone is. That some...
SAN FRANCISCO - Nobody knows exactly how much money waiters pocket each year in tips, but the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sai...
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer for three priests accused of sexual abuse will ask a Superior Court judge today to bar the Los Angeles ...
SAN JOSE - Attorneys for International Business Machines Corp., fighting a major toxic tort litigation case accusing the compa...
LOS ANGELES - In an opinion with potentially far-reaching consequences, the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court on...
SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster will be awarded one of five annual Pro Bono Publico awards for providing legal servic...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Remains in Command Of His Courtroom, Peers Say
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The reluctant witness slouched in her seat in the Van Nuys courtroom as she snapped that she would not return to...
SAN DIEGO - On the day Danielle van Dam's parents discovered she was missing, witnesses testified Monday, David A. Westerfield...
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge James Warren on Monday granted attorney Marjorie Knoller a new trial on her second-degree...
SAN FRANCISCO - A law aimed specifically at incest perpetrators and other so-called "resident molesters" who repeatedly abuse ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that local governments may not require religious, political and other noncommer...
SAN FRANCISCO - A last-minute settlement could derail the high-profile Maria Teresa Macias federal civil rights trial testing ...