SAN FRANCISCO -Venerable appellate attorney Elliot L. Bien was elected earlier this month as the 30th president of the Califor...
LOS ANGELES - Musician brothers Johnny and Edgar Winter were unhappy about being portrayed as menacing, tentacled, wormlike co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal wildlife officials in California have quietly asked for authority to waive a government policy which, ...
SAN DIEGO - In the third week of the trial of David A. Westerfield, a 50-year-old engineer accused of kidnapping and murdering...
SAN FRANCISCO - Nine months into a landmark trial, Tosco Corp. has agreed to pay $3 million to settle claims that its gasoline...
LOS ANGELES -A Superior Court judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought by two Los Angeles police officers against the Los Angele...
SAN FRANCISCO - Beverly Axelrod, a radical lawyer whose personal and professional links to Eldridge Cleaver drove her from the...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors have obtained a $73.3 million settlement in a whistle-blower lawsuit that accused the state ...
LOS ANGELES - Deputy Federal Public Defender Richard Novak was elected commissioner of the Los Angeles Superior Court Friday. ...
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...