LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court judges have elected Deputy District Attorney Diana Summerhayes to the bench as a comm...
LOS ANGELES - The downtown Metropolitan Courthouse and Central Civil West Courthouse have joined 32 others around the county t...
LOS ANGELES - The Board of Police Commissioners voted Tuesday not to reappoint police Chief Bernard Parks to a second five-yea...
LOS ANGELES - A man who claims he was wrongly convicted of the 1985 rape and murder of a woman is not entitled to a DNA test b...
SAN JOSE - Implementing a policy modeled after a law passed last year by the state Legislature, Santa Clara County plans to re...
Personal Injury & Torts
Bills Propose Civil Remedies For Domestic, Sex Violence
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - State lawmakers trying to create new tort law to address gender-motivated violence moved two bills forward in the...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Judicial Arbitration Is Distinct From Contractual Arbitration
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Richard Chernick - Most lawyers understand that judicial arbitration is a statutory, court-administered proc...
Forum Column - By Jennifer C. Pizer - The infamous Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court recently proclaimed th...
Forum Column - By Gary J. Malone - News reports portray the Enron scandal as a series of complex transactions that are so impe...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hastings College of the Law Professor George E. Bisharat wept as he stood in front of the imposing West Jerusa...
SANTA ANA - Orange County law enforcement officials want blood from Paul "Cornfed" Schneider - the Pelican Bay lifer, alleged ...
OAKLAND - The Oakland federal judge overseeing the Earth First civil rights trial agreed Monday to ask prospective jurors abou...
SAN FRANCISCO - Some people don't like to reveal their racism, so Placer County Superior Court Judge Joseph O'Flaherty gave hi...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday threw out a 28-year-old consent decree governing the Los Angeles Fire Department's min...
Administrative/Regulatory
Police Board Flouted Reform Charter, Critics Say
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - The Board of Police Commissioners ignored Christopher Commission reforms by holding their discussions of whether...
Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - In two recent and very similar cases, the courts appear to have cha...
Criminal
Prosecutors Seek Retroactive Use of Prop. 21
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
FONTANA - San Bernardino County prosecutors are resorting to a novel legal maneuver to place in adult court the case of a 25-y...
Administrative/Regulatory
Measure Would Work Against Small Farmers' Best Interests
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Philip D. Harvey - A House-Senate conference committee will decide this month on final provisions of the hug...
Criminal
Man Told Worker to Steal Body Parts, DAs Say
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
PERRIS - Lake Elsinore crematory owner Michael Francis Brown pleaded not guilty Monday to three new felony counts alleging tha...
LOS ANGELES - A Tarzana lawyer pleaded guilty Monday to his involvement in a Ukrainian-based international smuggling ring that...
Forum Column - By Peter A. Schey - On April 1, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in two cases challenging California's...
Dicta Column - By David Dolkas - It is a rare client who does not ask for a litigation budget for a complex, high-stakes case ...
Column by Garry Abrams - Americans may no longer trust their kids with a priest. They may demand to know whether their account...
Firm Watch
Katten Muchin: ROSENMAN MERGER BOOSTS NEW YORK PRESENCE TO 200
By Staff Writer
A merger between Chicago's Katten Muchin Zavis and New York-based Rosenman & Colin has created Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenma...
Firm Watch
Greenberg Glusker: CELEBRITY LAWYER RETURNS FROM STINT AT PARAMOUNT
By Staff Writer
Paramount Pictures executive vice president of business and legal affairs, E. Barry Haldeman , has left the studio to re-join ...
Firm Watch
Mitchell Silberberg: MUSIC SPECIALIST BRINGS HIS SOUND TO D.C. OFFICE
By Staff Writer
Steven B. Fabrizio , a former attorney at the trade group Recording Industry Association of America, now is representing recor...
An era at Los Angeles' Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker has come to an end with the passing of name partner Lee G. Paul Mar...
Partner Allen Hubsch led Heller Financial Inc., a division of General Electric Capital Corp., in its $90 million loan to Ameri...
Eight San Francisco lawyers will hold management positions at New York's Nixon Peabody , the firm announced March 26. They inc...
Firm Watch
Weston Benshoof: WOMEN LEADERS PROMOTE DIVERSITY WITH RECEPTION
By Stefanie Knapp
Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish 's women lawyers, calling themselves the Women of Weston, held their first ...