LOS ANGELES - A former Latham & Watkins associate has returned to the Los Angeles-based firm as a partner. John Flynn move...
Since Sept. 11, the Bush administration has asked the nation to perform a balancing act: become better prepared for terrorist...
Juvenile
Foster-Home Teens Tell of Their Lives, Haunted by Violence, Fear
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - The message was simple. In families, violence begets violence, and kids taken from violent homes don't always f...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Says Opponent Is Running in Retaliation
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Hesperia attorney Robert J. O'Connor is challenging San Bernardino County Presiding Judge Roberta McPeters in...
LOS ANGELES - Henry Liang has a lot to learn before he sits down behind the newly installed information desk at the entrance o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Olympic Community College, in Bremerton, Wash., violated the free speech and free exercise of religion rights ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Who owns the ball? In sports bars and tort classes, it's the question of the moment. Who is the legal possesso...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Kimberly Ryan graduated from high school in 1974, she didn't go to college. "We just didn't do it in my f...
One of the most significant pieces of environmental legislation adopted this year is the California Land Environmental Restora...
Former landowners are not liable under the federal Superfund statute for contamination that only passively migrated in soil an...
Judges and Judiciary
Part-Time Judge Relishes Time in Scottish Getaway
By Jeffrey Anderson
Building subcontractors - framers, plasterers, drywallers, electricians - will find it more difficult to obtain liability insu...
Lots of talk about patriotic desire and of contagion of various sorts of late. I am reminded of a story from our history. ...
Finding the right legal recruiter can be the first step to finding the right job. A successful recruiter is an expert at match...
The prevailing wisdom is that, at a deposition, only the deposition-taker can win, and the witness can only lose. This is only...
SACRAMENTO - Nowhere does the Fourth Amendment come closer to home for most people than when they get pulled over for a traffi...
Judges and Judiciary
Rival to Marin's Verna Adams Says Judges Are Spendthrifts
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Rafael attorney, calling the Marin bench an insiders club that shunts off too many cases to expensive me...
RIVERSIDE - The provost of the University of California system has decided to postpone planning for law schools at UC Riversid...
SAN DIEGO - Members of seven law enforcement organizations on Thursday joined the Deputy District Attorneys Association in cal...
LOS ANGELES - In the movie "Traffic," drug enforcement agents swelter in the back of an unmarked van as they sit, eavesdroppin...
LOS ANGELES - Three Superior Court judges will face challenges for their seats in a March primary, in which six county prosecu...
Personal Injury & Torts
Injured Golfer Can't Sue City, 2nd District Rules
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - A golfer who teed off early without waiting for two other members of her group was responsible for her own safet...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has cleared the way for the mother of a boy killed during a schoolyard brawl in Palmdale...
Entertainment & Sports
Veteran Attorney Worked as Chief Counsel for Universal
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Joseph V. Di Muro, an entertainment lawyer for more than half a century who had be...
SAN JOSE -Hewlett-Packard Co. has sued a former employee in federal court for sabotaging the testing of a powerful server the ...
LOS ANGELES - To date, nineteen candidates are running for seven seats in the March 5 primary. Four of those seats are being v...
Education
Student Files Bias Suit Against Pepperdine, Business Professor
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - A student enrolled in both the law and business schools at Pepperdine University sued the university and a busin...
BERKELEY - As a young girl, the director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at Boalt Hall was willing t...
In times of danger and fear, the government often has taken steps that not only were not necessary but also deprived people of...
There is a conservative master plan in effect that has as its final objective the complete separation and isolation from socie...