Michael G. Thornton is the type of even-keeled individual who seems to have been tailor-made to become an attorney, although t...
For more than 15 years, Victor and Pamela Smith have provided affordable housing in Napa Valley - a rare and valuable asset in...
LOS ANGELES - A married school bus driver whose affair with a co-worker became the butt of scathing office gossip does not qua...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney's office will request a grand jury to investigate the Roman Catholic Archdioce...
LOS ANGELES - Before lawyers try a case in front of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ernest M. Hiroshige, they had better read...
SAN DIEGO - A jury of six women and six men was seated Thursday afternoon for the trial of David A. Westerfield, who is accuse...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sen. Dianne Feinstein called the scenario "amazing": A giant corporation willing to charge the government only...
LOS ANGELES - A State Bar court has reduced a disciplinary suspension for the Orange County attorney who brought landmark liti...
LOS ANGELES -In an effort to get information to high school government teachers about the state trial court system, the Los An...
Forum Column - By Deborah J. Fox - The U.S. Supreme Court has written its latest chapter in the ongoing debate over zoning reg...
SAN FRANCISCO - Besides the distinction of being the only woman on the Central Valley's Merced County bench, attorneys who've ...
SAN DIEGO - Thousands of people in a class action accusing the city of overcollecting on parking tickets will get refunds this...
SAN FRANCISCO - The mood at San Francisco's McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen was euphoric Thursday, hours after results o...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court upheld a murderer's death sentence Thursday over the objections of two justices w...
E,ployment Column - By Robin LeGrand - Many superstar attorneys want to make career changes because they are no longer interes...
Dicta Column - By Jim Schratz - There are numerous state and federal statutes which provide that in certain types of suits, th...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Court Strikes Clause Insulating Company From Class Actions
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Linda C. Fritz - Fairness for all parties involved in mandatory arbitration is critically important and high...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Council Requests Relief For Overworked Federal Jurists
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The Judicial Conference has asked Congress to consider legislation to boost the rolls of federal judges nationwid...
Forum Column - By John H. Weston and G. Randall Garrou - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in City of Los Angeles v. Alamed...
SAN FRANCISCO - McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, one of San Francisco's oldest and most respected law firms, appeared We...
LOS ANGELES - The Beastie Boys have racked up another hit - this time in federal court where the popular rap group has won a r...
SAN DIEGO - A test developed by Gen-Probe Inc. that collection centers use to screen more than 70 percent of donated blood in ...
Judges and Judiciary
County Bar Group Celebrates Jurists
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Judges Jules E. Fleuret, Michael A. Smith and Dennis G. Cole have received the San Bernardino County Bar Asso...
LOS ANGELES - An Orange County Superior Court judge erred when she questioned a doctor accused of sexual assault during a jury...
Forum Column - By Paul O'Brien - Thanks to the First Amendment and a large body of case law, anonymous political speech and as...
Focus Column - By Charles S. Doskow - A California Court of Appeal held, in an opinion in 2000, that truth was irrelevant to t...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
ADR Bills Ready for Senate to Consider
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly on Wednesday passed the last bill in a package aimed at reforming alternative dispute resoluti...
SAN JOSE - The decision last week by Cary Stayner's attorneys to change his plea from innocent to not guilty by reason of insa...
Government
Amoebalike Division of L.A. Would Endanger Botox, Tupperware Parties
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Many of us are wondering, "What will happen if the San Fernando Valley succeeds in seceding from Los ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Harland W. Braun said that he plans to use a recent San Diego Superior Court ruling that found the spec...