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Should anti-discrimination statutes be construed to require employers to provide women with health insurance plans that cover ...
Lawyers often have to answer unexpected questions. For example, imagine that first thing Monday morning you are greeted with a...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to let a homeowner's insurance company deny coverage f...
VENTURA - Westlake Village lawyer Cathleen Drury, whose own experience with divorce and single-motherhood inspired her to beco...
SACRAMENTO - A bill that would require the owners of condos and townhouses to mediate their construction dispute claims to avo...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court cited two Los Angeles attorneys for contempt and fined them $1,000 apiece Wednesday...
LOS ANGELES - Ramona Godoy Perez, an associate justice of the 2nd District Court of Appeal beloved for her easygoing demeanor ...
ORANGE - An Orange County deputy district attorney has lost his second bid for a seat on the Orange City Council, defeated by ...
Insurance
Closely Watched Case Examines Insurer's Duty to Cover Shooting
By Peter Blumberg
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SACRAMENTO - A bill to grant new legal privileges to domestic partners was approved Wednesday by the state Assembly following ...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County prosecutor, hoping to get legislation passed that would make it easier to convict defendants a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Listen carefully when you leave the office tonight - the click of the lock might sound slightly different. Law...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a role reversal, the notably litigious record industry found itself on the defensive end of a lawsuit Wedne...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Riordan & McKinzie has lost three more partners from its Orange County office. The departu...
LOS ANGELES - The next thing Los Angeles' newly elected city attorney should do is buy a lottery ticket. With a new baby and a...
LOS ANGELES - The specters of those tiny but fearsome twins, Hanging and Dimpled Chad, haunted Tuesday's elections. Concern th...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor-elect James K. Hahn said he wants to move past the bitterness of an election race he won with ...
SACRAMENTO - The high-technology industry has succeeded in dumping financial fraud from a list of public hazards that would be...
SAN FRANCISCO - As if the 1995 securities reform law didn't clamp down enough on shareholder class action suits, a federal app...
SAN FRANCISCO - At first, courtroom clerk Margie Sadler figured her runny nose and scratchy throat were just allergies, a comm...
DENVER - Defense lawyers for Timothy McVeigh today will appeal a federal judge's decision refusing to stay the convicted bombe...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing the San Francisco Police Department avoided a showdown with criminal defense attorney J. ...
Calabasas attorney Andrew C. Bryman has an aggressive style to litigation, as evidenced in his recent $2.2 million settlement ...
Persuading a judge, whether arguing motions or during a bench trial, requires skills that are in some ways similar and in some...
A recent report indicates that 2 million teen-agers, self-identified as gay, report "widespread bullying" and "teacher indiffe...
Hell may look different to the many religions of the world, but patients suffering with reflex sympathetic dystrophy agree on ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jack Werchick, who put himself through law school by driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco and be...
YES. The plaintiffs' bar is alleging Business & Professions Code Section 17200 claims with more frequency and in a wider r...
Neutrals aren't always so neutral. Mediators can't help but bring their biases to the table. At least, that's how Robert Ballo...