San Diego's redevelopment agency had hit home runs in two previous eminent domain trials to acquire property for a proposed ba...
Two virtually identical bills now before the California Legislature would have the unprecedented effect of treating people as ...
There has been little reaction to the U.S. Patent Office's new utility guidelines that, among other things, limit the ability ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Haight Brown & Bonesteel has named Peter Ezzell firmwide managing partner, the firm announced W...
For mediator Anne Gifford, seemingly irrelevant questions are critical to getting the parties to agree on a dollar figure. ...
LOS ANGELES - Robert Pearson Berkman, a redevelopment lawyer and Democratic activist, has died. Berkman died May 7 of pneumoni...
Outside review of employee grievances coupled with fact-finding and stated conclusions is an effective method of resolving emp...
What do California lawyers think of the 'Casey Martin' decision? ...
It would be wrong to think of Pillsbury Winthrop's Kenneth R. Chiate as a typical rainmaking law firm partner. ...
In Mrs. Agnes Garner v. Joseph Burnstien, 1 La.App. 19 (1924), Judge Westerfield held the following for the court: Plai...
SAN DIEGO - Five people charged and cleared twice for selling marijuana to clients who had doctors' authorizations have sued t...
LOS ANGELES - The state attorney general asked a judge Wednesday to block convicted murderer Robert Rosenkrantz's attempts to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Aging underworld figures, a tangled pattern of evidence, nebulous motives and DNA testing will feature in the ...
SANTA ANA - A senior assistant state attorney general confirmed Wednesday that his office is reviewing possible evidence that ...
LOS ANGELES - Veteran Los Angeles City Councilman Joel Wachs resigned Wednesday to take the top spot at the Andy Warhol Founda...
SACRAMENTO - Folks around the Capitol often talk about how term limits have made institutional memory - the recollection of pr...
LOS ANGELES - What do you do with a law degree when you realize you don't want to be a lawyer? Monica Y. Castagnasso turned he...
LOS ANGELES - In a class action filed Wednesday, a group of cancer survivors and their family members accused five of the stat...
Litigation
Stone Age Judicial Preserve Will Purify Judges for Energy-Related Cases
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Stone Age Judges, Part Deux. Today we revisit the Paleolithic legal battle over whether any federal judge in Cal...
A Prunedale man's 18-year court fight to recover his unpaid wages has finally panned out, but it took a trip through Californ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a nationally watched right-to-die case, the California Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with whether to pul...
LOS ANGELES - Over the past several years, an increasing number of disgruntled shareholders have accused companies of financia...
LOS ANGELES - Public schools that ignore the harassment of gay teen-agers are failing to educate these vulnerable students, ac...
SAN FRANCISCO - Employment lawyer and bicycling enthusiast Robert Sturm says Tour de France marathon cyclists are out of his l...
On May 8, Judge Charles C. Kobayashi ruled in Marine Forests Society v. California Coastal Commission, 00AS00567 (Sacra...
Doctors Hector Torres, Jay Slosar and Richard Lettieri, three clinical psychologists working from their company in Irvine, are...
SAN FRANCISCO - An 11th lawyer has resigned from the Bay Area offices of Chicago's Baker & McKenzie. Antoinette Konski, an...
LOS ANGELES - The American Arbitration Association has lost arbitrator Richard Chernick to JAMS, one of its competitors in the...
Your client may fax you something you've never seen before: a legislative subpoena. ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge declared a mistrial Tuesday in a double-homicide case against a man whose co-...