SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has rejected all requests to reconsider its May ruling that allows insurance comp...
LOS ANGELES - Although the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority has won a major legal round against the Metro Rai...
SAN FRANCISCO - Iota Pi Law Group, best-known as the longtime Palo Alto intellectual property boutique Dehlinger & Associa...
Litigation
Law of Appearances Keeps Lawsuit From Zone of Embarrassment and Ridicule
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - The prospect of going to trial against two disabled people, including a man with no arms and legs, has made the ...
LOS ANGELES - At the same time Congress is preparing to vote on an agreement expanding trade with Vietnam, one of that country...
^^Bankruptcy Law^^ Automatic Update New Inflation Adjustments Affect Consumers and Creditors By Wesley H. Avery Section 104(b...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeals court on Wednesday revived a landowners' lawsuit challenging a city voter-mandated law meant t...
SAN JOSE - Attorneys for Cadence Design Systems pressed their argument Wednesday that Avant Corp. should pay $700 million in c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Oregon's novel vote-by-mail statute complies with federal election law, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
SACRAMENTO - A conflict between Enron Corp. and a Senate committee investigating alleged price-gouging in California's energy ...
LOS ANGELES - Retired securities lawyer Wayne H. Knight has died. Knight died July 3 from complications of pneumonia. He was 9...
Defending an 81-year-old woman threatened with eviction brought Southern California attorney Denise Letzer-McGranahan a long-s...
Facing an eviction from her Santa Monica apartment after more than 30 years, 81-year-old Lavon Fitzgerald couldn't fund an exp...
Unlike most franchise cases of the past several years where arbitrability was an issue, the court did not proceed with the usu...
LOS ANGELES - Family law sole practitioner Toby Plevin has died after a two-year battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Plevin di...
A deposition taken by an inexperienced deposition-taker can be a cruel experience for the questioner, the deponent and the vet...
Predatory lending became the focus of a multicase pro bono effort spearheaded by a team of attorneys in the Silicon Valley off...
LOS ANGELES - A Sacramento man who fled to England after he and his wife embezzled nearly $1 million from a Santa Monica law f...
One of the challenges facing litigators during peak stress times is time pressure interfering with quality nutrition. Busy tri...
Violence on campus cannot be the basis for abdicating our duty to protect the Constitution and instill in youth what the Bill ...
Sometimes, all it takes is a suggestion. Irene Zeibarth sensed that an elder wanted more than money when he sued his church fo...
SANTA ANA - When Orange County Deputy Marshal Stephen J. Scott retired in 1992, he knew his 11-year tenure in the Sheriff's De...
It was raining, and I was poring, over some 90-day A/Rs. The phone rang. Stanley, a plaintiff's lawyer, was upset. "I've been ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ratepayers will not have a formal committee to represent them in the Chapter 11 case of Pacific Gas and Electr...
RIVERSIDE - The national watchdog agency that lambasted the Riverside County public defender's office in an audit last year la...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two San Francisco attorneys, themselves behind bars awaiting trial for murder and manslaughter in the dog-maul...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 90 lawyers and staff in the San Francisco office of Coudert Brothers will get a change of scenery next wee...
SACRAMENTO - In an apparent effort to circumvent a landmark DNA law enacted last year, an attorney general's task force has dr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A little-noticed California Supreme Court decision has alarmed consumer advocates concerned that insurance com...
Judges and Judiciary
Supervising Judge of L.A. Criminal Courts Dies at 56
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephen E. O'Neil, supervising judge of the county's criminal courts, and a man...