Government Contracts
Minorities Face Roadblocks on Path to Contracts
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - While minority-owned companies showed tremendous growth in the past decade, they continue to struggle to compete...
LOS ANGELES - Julian Montoya had won short-term city contracts before, but in Sherman Oaks Castle he saw the opportunity of a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate panel has published its opinion directing the California Youth Authority to ensure that its ...
Solo and Small Firms
Lawyer Frequently Took Pro Bono Clients
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
COSTA MESA - Brian E. Lippold, a Costa Mesa attorney remembered as a practitioner with a "big heart," has died. Lippold died N...
Labor/Employment
Court Will Eye Seniority Under Americans With Disabilities Act
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Reviewing the case of a San Francisco airline employee, the Supreme Court this week will consider for the first t...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County man has been sentenced to a three-year state prison term after he was convicted of making crim...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Imparts Knowledge Patiently, On and Off Bench
By Contributing Writer
OAKLAND - Judge Leo Dorado raised his eyebrows and cocked his head. He was listening to a pro per defendant, soon to be on tri...
LOS ANGELES - Not every class action qualifies as complex litigation. That is the word from the Los Angeles Superior Court, wh...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Lazarus has raised and spent about half a million dollars on his campaign to become San Francisco's next c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. faces a new crop of objections filed by more than 60 creditors, including the sta...
Tort law encompasses product-liability law, which, in turn, encompasses pharmaceutical-liability law. Pharmaceutical liability...
We should be ashamed of our collective failure to provide even basic services to the children in our foster care system, many ...
One of the biggest issues that arises when an attorney decides to take on a case is the statute of limitations on the claim. E...
President George Bush's executive order merely recognizes that Osama bin Laden is a war criminal.
SACRAMENTO - When he was 4 years old, Robert E. Cartwright Jr. recalls, he swore he would never grow up to be an attorney like...
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Geary D. Cortes was sentenced in an Orange County court to three years' probation after plead...
LOS ANGELES - Celebrated palimony lawyer Marvin M. Mitchelson sued the Saudi Arabian royal family Thursday on behalf of his cl...
LOS ANGELES - Seven journalists who were assaulted by Los Angeles police while covering protests at the 2000 Democratic Nation...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has entered a final judgment in a unique lawsuit filed by the city against Old Republic ...
LOS ANGELES - Patching one cracked sidewalk is a small task. But in a city the size of Los Angeles, where the spidery lines di...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles officials on Thursday announced a stepped-up effort to target child abuse complaints - requiring tha...
LOS ANGELES - A rookie attorney pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony fraud charges stemming from crimes he allegedly committe...
SAN FRANCISCO - The fate of Floyd Andrews, a San Francisco prosecutor arrested earlier this month by San Rafael police for sta...
SAN FRANCISCO - John B. Goodrich, one of the handful of attorneys who practiced with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati befo...
LOS ANGELES - While state immunity protected former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez for testifying about his role in t...
LOS ANGELES - In an effort to get more bang for the millions of bucks it spends every year on outside counsel, the city attorn...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court on Thursday handed a major victory to employees suing over sexual harassment by their ...
When he went to law school, full of hope and desire, he set lofty goals and strove to climb higher. Jurisprudence and justice ...
Although the shock of Sept. 11 has diminished, and Americans are moving on with their lives, some anxiety lingers which contin...
While recent events have sent tremors of uncertainty throughout the legal profession, one bright spot is Web-based contract la...