LOS ANGELES - Claiming a private investigator is a material witness in the murder case against Robert Blake, prosecutors have ...
Forum Column - By Matthew E. Cavanaugh - When I campaigned last summer for a seat on the State Bar's board of governors, I he...
Litigation
Decades-Long Scientology Litigation Ends With $8.6 Million Settlement
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - If the California judicial system could breathe a sigh of relief, it probably would have exhaled dee...
WASHINGTON - When President George H.W. Bush in 1990 picked David H. Souter for the Supreme Court, he was dubbed the "stealth ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether the state's automobile "lemon law"...
SANTA ANA - The state Supreme Court's chief justice has ordered an evaluation of an Orange County jurist who reduced charges f...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two former Pelican Bay State Prison guards were found guilty by a federal jury Wednesday of a single count of ...
Dicta Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - The process of evaluating and implementing accounting, time and billing softwar...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
May a Hospital Assert a Lien for Costs In Excess of Those Paid by Insurer?
By Columnist
Focus Column - By David B. Burman - On June 5, 1998, Mary Ann Shaul was seriously injured in an automobile accident. Schaul su...
Judges and Judiciary
Caveman Judicial Mentality Shatters Faith in the System
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Rodney Richard Jones - The notion of justice and decency coexisting seems to have evaporated. In its place,...
SAN FRANCISCO - An agreement ending California agriculture's exemption from getting permits for large sources of air pollution...
SAN FRANCISCO - More than 50 public and private law firms agreed Tuesday to seek to have at least one quarter of their partner...
Judges and Judiciary
Role Model Follows Her Parents' Example in Serving Community
By Ed Kimble
LOS ANGELES - On Friday, Fumiko Hachiya Wasserman will have to find space for one more award on the long windowsill of her Los...
Judges and Judiciary
State Budget Plan Hacks $62 Million From Courts
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis, faced with a $23.6 billion shortfall in revenues, presented a revised state budget Tuesday that ...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers remember the case Debra Yang prosecuted in 1994 like it was yesterday. A man had kidnapped and sexually ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury could begin deliberating as early as today in the civil case brought by the Ci...
Product Liability
Measures in the Senate and Assembly would eliminate liability exemptions that were an issue in 101 California litigation.
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Two bills that would repeal the special immunity from lawsuits enjoyed by gun makers in California cleared powerf...
LOS ANGELES - In a case sure to terrify California homeowners, a state appellate court has ruled that a tree trimmer who fell ...
LOS ANGELES -Judge Ann L. Kough, who sat in the complex civil litigation division of the Los Angeles Superior Court, has retir...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's immediately clear to many local lawyers and recruiters how the Bay Area would benefit from London-based l...
LOS ANGELES -A state appellate court ruled Tuesday that the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy must get permits to hold partie...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis has named a veteran prosecutor and an experienced civil litigator to the Sacramento County Sup...
Administrative/Regulatory
Editor's Headline Writing Wins Regional Award
By Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Daily Journal national editor Don J. DeBenedictis has been honored for his headline-writing by the p...
LOS ANGELES - The American Dental Association has filed a defamation suit against a Van Nuys lawyer for claiming that the nonp...
Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Estate of Shinkle, 2002 DJDAR 4257 (Cal. App. 6th Dist. A...
Forum Column - By Juliet Leftwich - The National Rifle Association and other pro-gun groups are celebrating the recent decisio...
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - When Congress enacted the first mandatory-sentencing laws in 1986, the aim was to ri...
Focus Column - By Harold J. Cohn, Shelley L. Albaum and Seth D. Kramer - It is common for family law attorneys to hear from cl...
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court has rejected a hard-won proposal to change lawyer ethics rules to guide government lawye...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County district attorney's office will create a database of information on law enforcement offic...