Marshall Grossman used to introduce law partner Michael Sherman as "one of my street-fighting kids from the streets of New Yor...
It was pure Horatio Alger. The plaintiff, in telling his life story, detailed how he worked in a silver mine when he was 16, t...
Product Liability
Jury Finds Ford Not Liable in Teen's Death
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A jury has rejected a lawsuit that alleged Ford Motor Co. negligently failed to put seat belts in the middle ...
In Circuit City Stores Inc. v. Adams, 532 U.S. 121 S. Ct. 1302 (2001), the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that the Federa...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Leonard Mendelsohn, a longtime member of the Los Angeles Jewish Founda...
Judges and Judiciary
4th District Appellate Justice Loses Cancer Fight
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Associate Justice Don R. Work of the 4th District Court of Appeal, known to his colleagues as an unpretentious man...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Tuesday allowed pretrial motions to proceed in the trial of Sara Jane Olson, the former Sy...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sixteen California counties have hired a Los Angeles law firm to fight a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. propos...
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge Tuesday refused to throw out any of the 12 charges in the fraud and embezzlement indictment...
LOS ANGELES - Closing arguments in a double-murder trial Tuesday took an unusual, although not unexpected, twist when a defens...
Front Page
Justice Department: Ratepayers Have Their Own Financial Claims
By Dennis Pfaff
Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s ratepayers have possible financial claims on the utility, including potential reimbursement f...
SAN FRANCISCO - Months after a bureaucratic snafu led to the release of a repeat abuser who then allegedly murdered his ex-gir...
LOS ANGELES - If actor Robert Blake is arrested and tried for the murder of his wife, Los Angeles could be in for yet another ...
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali grappled Monday with whether to block an accounting change state utility regulators impos...
BISBEE, Ariz. - Sitting on the front porch of her white wooden bungalow in this rustic, former mining town, human rights activ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s ratepayers have possible financial claims on the utility, including potential...
New rules that limit the conditions for sealing court records in California likely will be tested for the first time in Los An...
Entertainment & Sports
Slurs on Videotape Don't Violate Civil Rights Act, Judge Rules
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that racial slurs heard on a Six Flags Magic Mountain videotape...
California's refusal to allow out-of-state attorneys to represent their clients here is the most restrictive reciprocity polic...
SAN FRANCISCO - It was the first time teacher Kris Morrella saw her students sweat. After surviving six months of competitions...
Telephone interviews often are a make-or-break situation and must be taken as seriously as an in-person interview. They usuall...
For decades, welfare recipients and applicants have relied on legal services organizations for representation in litigation ag...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Bruno City Attorney Jonathan Lowell has joined the San Francisco employment and labor law boutique Curiale...
SANTA ANA - An Irvine couple accused of running an international baby-selling ring pleaded not guilty to alien smuggling and t...
CALEXICO - At times, the throat-searing, eye-tearing stench from the New River is so strong that agents can smell it at the Bo...
INDIO - A grandfather has agreed to stop fighting for custody of the 10-year-old child that his gay son and his son's partner ...
LOS ANGELES - A computer technician who claims Kaiser Foundation Hospitals violated his civil rights by refusing to hire him b...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two weeks after shutting down their estate, trust and probate practice, Charlotte Ito and Mark Johnson are sta...
SACRAMENTO - California's budget woes could require the judicial branch to cut some important programs and defer others, Chief...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali grappled Monday with whether to block an accounting change imposed by sta...