Judges and Judiciary
County Dedicates Court to Congressman
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - George E. Brown Jr. marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. more than 40 years ago to advocate civil rights. The ...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for John Gregory Thorpe, real estate attorney and founding partner of Los Ange...
Discipline
Court May Sanction Lawyers for 'Reckless' Mischaracterization
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A judge may sanction a lawyer for making "reckless" statements if the judge finds that the statements are frivol...
Judges and Judiciary
Former Public Defender Alan Oberstein Dies
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
PALM DESERT- Alan Oberstein, a former Riverside County public defender, died Tuesday of a heart attack while vacationing in Ha...
LOS ANGELES - Despite complaints that police officers abused a policy that prohibits them from picking up suspected illegal al...
SANTA ANA - The Orange County district attorney's office has joined with the Los Angeles district attorney's office and the Ca...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Police Department and the city attorney's office are among a handful of city departments that ha...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Tenants Lose Powerful Tool In Fighting Ellis Evictions
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco appeal court has ruled that tenants may not use the retaliatory eviction defense against landl...
LOS ANGELES - In a case of legal turnabout and soured alliances, the Los Angeles Unified School District has sought to disqual...
LOS ANGELES - As federal officials reportedly began arriving in Los Angeles to begin a civil rights investigation into the tre...
SAN FRANCISCO - An obscure patent dispute between jelly maker giant J.M. Smucker Co. and a 100-employee food manufacturing com...
Appellate Practice
Judges Lack Standing to Contest Their Disqualification
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior court judges have no right to appeal their own disqualification from a case, a unanimous state Suprem...
Appellate Practice
Justices Struggle to Put the 'Bush' Decision Behind Them
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Nearly two months after the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision effectively handing the presidency to George W. Bush, th...
LOS ANGELES - A man sentenced to more than 155 years in prison for the rape of an attorney and attempted murder of two police ...
Where the stock market leads, the legal job market follows. As the stock market rose to record levels, law firm hiring followe...
While much has been said about legal writing, this trial tip discusses but one aspect of this vast area: avoiding argumentativ...
SAN RAFAEL - Drug dealers trying to intimidate prosecutors are behind the effort to recall her, Marin County District Attorney...
Luce Forward argued that mandatory arbitration agreements can encompass claims for discrimination and that Duffield was wrongl...
Do you know what your duties as an attorney are? Every attorney takes an oath when he or she is sworn in upon admission to the...
SAN DIEGO - David Geerdes has been named managing shareholder of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's San Diego office. "I wa...
The 'Costa' case highlights just one area in which there will likely be appellate challenges to BAJI employment instructions. ...
LOS ANGELES - Lisa Specht, a partner at Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips, on Wednesday assumed the presidency of the ...
The purpose of the Americans With Disabilities Act is to open doors to equal opportunity for the disabled. Does this include a...
LOS ANGELES - In a move that sent shivers of joy down the spines of Hollywood gossip columnists and gave entertainment industr...
LOS ANGELES - A group of grandmothers who say they are concerned about public education in their community may reach an import...
LOS ANGELES - A revenue officer with the Internal Revenue Service was sentenced Monday to more than three years in a federal p...
LOS ANGELES - Co-defendants of ex-Los Angeles Rams cornerback Darryl Henley, who were convicted of a cross-country cocaine dru...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Prunedale man's 18-year court fight to recover his unpaid wages has finally panned out, but it took a trip t...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge and Activist Lester Van Tatenhove Dies
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Lester Van Tatenhove, a retired Orange County Superior Court judge who made his mark as a jurist and social activi...
SACRAMENTO - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed a San Francisco lawyer to withdraw from a death penalty case after s...