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...
SAN FRANCISCO - Walk into the red brick storefront office of Clarence & Snell on the corner of Ellis and Van Ness and it's...
Law Practice
Mayor Puts Politically Savvy on Board of Police Commissioners
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - In naming four politically savvy and ethnically varied attorneys to the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioner...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court, excoriating two Idaho state prosecutors, upheld sanctions Tuesday against the lawyers...
The proper functioning of our republican form of democratic government requires a clear rule of law that federal law enforceme...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Unified School District will fight an arbitrator's decision to award more than $16 million to th...
Firm lawyers must be on their best behavior while the summer associates are on board. ...
Cross-selling can expand your practice, offer more services to your clients and increase firm revenues. ...
The deportation of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ...
RIVERSIDE - An appellate panel has affirmed the prison sentence of the former owner of a conservatorship company who helped st...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge's decision to halt development of three dozen offshore oil and gas leases will, for the first ...
SAN DIEGO - A group of lawyers whose case prompted the city to shut off its 19 traffic-intersection cameras last month continu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Thirteen months after its firm was acquired as the emerging-companies practice of Thelen Reid & Priest, th...
LOS ANGELES - Gregory Vega, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California, will join San Diego's Seltzer Caplan...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediator Can't Report Disruption to Judge
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A mediator cannot divulge to a judge anything that goes on in negotiations, even when participants try to dera...
From staff reports Nicolas De Lancie has joined Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP in an of counsel capacity to the ba...
SACRAMENTO - Public interest lawyers, including district attorneys and public defenders, could get state help to repay their l...
Personal Injury & Torts
Amputee's Suit Alleges Neglect By Utility Firm
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - Allen Kimball always looked for power lines before perusing a tree for its fruits. And the veteran avocado picke...
LOS ANGELES - Barry Levin's last act was one of courage, sparing his family the pain of watching him deteriorate as had his fa...