HAYWARD - The judge behind the first judicially-mandated auto recall gave preliminary consent Thursday to a nationwide settlem...
Judges and Judiciary
During Their Latest Recess, Justices Get Personal - in Public
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Being a Supreme Court justice is a great gig. Three months off in the summer and frequent two-week or monthlong r...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court Thursday upheld a death sentence for the 120-pound Presa Canario dog involved in the fata...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Francis Mintz, who for 50 years served the Jewish community from the local to the ...
SAN DIEGO - Patricia Palm Rapp, a Woodland Hills attorney whose enthusiasm for the Green Bay Packers rivaled her dedication to...
Judges and Judiciary
Joshua Tree Commissioner Dives Into Hectic Calendar
By Paul Wilborn
In Birschtein v. New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., 2001 DJDAR 10811 (Cal. App. Oct. 9, 2001), the 1st District Court...
Law Practice
Lawyer's Passions Drive Him to Fight for Tort Victims
By Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES - Robert Fink recalls the meeting he had with a client several years ago that helped him decide to become an attor...
It is California public policy that a spouse receiving spousal support become self-supporting in a reasonable period of time. ...
Government
Litigious Podiatrist Loses License After Foot-Dragging for 14 Years
By Garry Abrams
Professionally speaking, litigious Southern California podiatrist Garey Lee Weber no longer has a leg to stand on. That's beca...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Commission on Judicial Performance announced Wednesday that it has postponed disciplinary proceeding...
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday named two new judges to the court that oversees lawyer discipline and eleva...
LOS ANGELES - Under a new spending package passed by Los Angeles County to battle terrorism, the district attorney's office wi...
SAN JOSE - In an attempt to balance public access and privacy rights, the Judicial Council of California is set Friday to adop...
LOS ANGELES - A veteran deputy public defender was jailed on felony charges for allegedly trying to slip marijuana into the Lo...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday put the brakes on a lawsuit alleging that a major U.S. military manu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Contamination that simply oozes through the soil does not constitute "disposal," and thus some property owners...
IRVINE - Services for Arthur P. Greenfield, who represented automobile manufacturers in product-liability litigation throughou...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Dale C. Schafer claims a Sacramento federal magistrate has jeopardized California lawyers by refusing...
SAN FRANCISCO - After representing the City and County of San Francisco for more than 15 years, Louise Renne has secured her f...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former appellate Justice Gary E. Strankman, who retired in May after serving 13 years on the 1st District Cour...
While the fight against terrorism will continue for years to come, the United States already has fought and won the war's most...
LOS ANGELES - The Anaheim Union High School District board will consider a proposal tonight to require school officials to inf...
Game theorists who study conflict and negotiations have developed some interesting conclusions about the way in which particip...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued one of the most far-reaching decisions in the brief history of the Famil...
Lawyers do very interesting things with documents that are presented to them for review and finalization. ...
Bruce Wold often tells people he's a better athlete than a lawyer. Don't tell that to Michael Meadows, who represented a 50-ye...
With the strains of Sergei Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky" soaring from the dozens of voices in the midst of the turmoil gripp...
The last five years have seen an incredible growth in technology, including wireless Internet, hand-held computers, high-speed...