Forum Column - By Melanie E. Lomax - There were compelling reasons to reappoint Chief Bernard Parks to a second term as head o...
When Kenneth R. Chiate and Dimitrios P. Biller took on a fraud and unfair business practices case against an insurance company...
Dimitrios P. Biller has been accused of being a workaholic, and he admits he takes his cases too seriously. It really sunk in ...
Question: What has been the biggest change in mediation in the last five years? Answer: Mediation has come into its own as a p...
In some contractual arbitration cases, problems or deficiencies exist in both the process and resulting award. However, in man...
SAN FRANCISCO - Orange County prosecutors investigating suspicious municipal contracts in 1997 had no ethical conflict in team...
SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar is on track to formally authorize its in-house lightning rod for controversy, the Conference of ...
LOS ANGELES - They look like the guys from ZZ Top and carry around a life-size casket with a drawing of Yosemite Sam stenciled...
Judges and Judiciary
County Targets, Fines Its Most Stubborn Jury-Service Scofflaws
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County residents who think they can avoid jury duty by ignoring the steady stream of summonses that ...
SANTA ANA - A judge on Thursday ordered Motocross promoter Michael Goodwin to stand trial in the 1988 killings of auto-racing ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Although federal agents were armed with consent from the San Francisco city attorney, the warrantless search o...
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The instant that Mayor James K. Hahn publicly announced that he would not back a se...
Judges and Judiciary
Tea, Formality Characterize Intellectual Judge on Bench
By Tamara Scott
LONG BEACH - When the clock strikes 3, Judge Margaret M. Hay pours herself a cup of tea. Attorneys who practice in Hay's court...
SANTA ROSA - The Sonoma County courts were embarking on a "social experiment of grand proportions," Sebastopol mediator Gary W...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis announced the appointments Thursday of civil litigator Daniel J. Buckley and Deputy Attorney Gen...
SAN FRANCISCO - An informal gathering to honor the memory of the late San Francisco Superior Court Judge Jack Berman will be h...
LOS ANGELES - Someone in a group of police officers damaged Betty Jones' house during a gang-related search in April 1995. Yet...
SAN RAFAEL - The man stabbed by San Francisco prosecutor Floyd Andrews just moments earlier was seen pinning Andrews on his ba...
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge on Thursday refused to allow broadcast coverage of pretrial proceedings or access to writte...
WATSONVILLE - Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Heather Morse is used to long days. Being the sole full-time judge servin...
LOS ANGELES - Police Chief Bernard Parks is exploring potential federal civil rights and state open meetings claims against th...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for William C. Hobbs, a longtime clinical professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angele...
Employment Column - By Luan J. McElroy - An important step in structuring a successful job search is carefully selecting appro...
Dicta Column - By Leigh Datzker - Many of my colleagues tell me how difficult and time-consuming trial preparation can be. Eve...
Dicta Column - By Ralph Bovitz - Married or not, women attorneys must be prepared for the full range of financial possibilitie...
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Congress is considering the passage of the Farm Security Act. At issue is the question ...
Focus Column - By Keith Phillips - The "American Rule" with regard to attorney-fee awards requires litigants to pay their own ...
MARTINEZ - Steven Wasserman stood in a courtroom and asked a jury to share his incredulity at his clients' fate. How could peo...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco International Airport has failed to meet the "most basic needs" of deaf or hearing-impaired trav...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council declined on Wednesday to review a decision by the Board of Police Commissioners to ...