California property owners have been faced with the regulation of isolated wetlands and seasonal ponds located on their proper...
It's déjà vu all over again. On Dec. 2, 1965, a so-called blue-ribbon panel, the McCone Commission, found that Los Angeles off...
SAN FRANCISCO - Working lawyers have a posh new place to relax between hearings, or to negotiate with adversaries, or to wait ...
LOS ANGELES - The South Coast Air Quality Management District's limits on paint ingredients that harm the environment have wit...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for James R. Hutter, retired partner of Los Angeles' Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher....
Courts have held that when someone who is under no obligation to provide a service voluntarily undertakes to do so, he will be...
LOS ANGELES - Two teen-agers who have been jailed two months waiting to testify in a capital murder trial will appear before a...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council signaled its intent Wednesday to locate $2 million in city funding for crime-preven...
SAN DIEGO - Latham & Watkins San Diego partner Dorn Bishop left the firm Wednesday to join the U.S. attorney's office. Bis...
LOS ANGELES - Don Samuelson figures he would have spent more time getting to know John Ashcroft in law school if he'd known th...
Litigation
Gambling Impresario Wynn's Win Leaves Publisher in Legal Limbo
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - If you can't trust Scotland Yard, who can you trust? That's the lingering riddle I take from a decision released...
Intellectual Property
With Suit Pending, Stanfordlawyer.com Returns to School
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - A La Jolla attorney, calling himself a "big fan" of Stanford University, is giving up his claim to the stanfordlawy...
SAN FRANCISCO - Adoption experts were scratching their heads Wednesday over news that two San Francisco lawyers had adopted a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The receptionist at this city's Office of Citizen Complaints sits behind a protective window of plastic thick ...
SAN DIEGO - As society increasingly turns to the legal system to solve its problems with violent and emotionally troubled kids...
SANTA ANA - A former Santa Ana city councilman will spend the next 57 months in a federal prison following his conviction for ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A kidnapper who left his battered victim for dead in a Nevada snowbank may have to serve more prison time than...
Although plaintiffs' lawyer Sonya Winner says the facts of her trade-secret theft case spoke for themselves, her matter-of-fac...
Judges and Judiciary
Protesters Chant as Justice Lectures at Local Law School
By Martin Kruming
SAN DIEGO - Justice Antonin Scalia's visit to San Diego last week was the fruit of a trip he made two years ago to a summer pr...
The same litigation approach Claremont trial attorney Herbert Hafif adopted 43 years ago still works: "simplicity, simplicity,...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney may have had a conflict of interest if he simultaneously represented two clients believed to be invo...
STOCKTON - Dense tule fog obscures visibility along the back country farm roads 500 miles north of Los Angeles. This time of y...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Latham & Watkins expanded its legal empire Tuesday, acquiring the Hamburg, Germany office ...
Administrative/Regulatory
No Sweepstakes Prize for Liquor Industry at Appeal Court
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruling Tuesday that bans sweepstakes linked to alcoholic beverages left a skunky-beer ...
Judges and Judiciary
Critics Point Out Discrepancies in Nominee's Tale
By Staff Writers
LOS ANGELES - On Tuesday, James Hormel, the Ambassador to Luxembourg whose nomination was opposed by Attorney General nominee ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday voted 10-8 to send the controversial nomination of former Missouri...
SAN FRANCISCO - Acrimony between a Marin County litigator and two lawyers who recently left his firm has spilled over into the...
LOS ANGELES - A simmering dispute between two Los Angeles city departments broke into the open Tuesday when a psychologist acc...
LOS ANGELES - Although youth crime rates continue to drop nationally, the number of juveniles sent to adult prisons is on the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The husband and wife attorneys whose dogs killed a young woman outside her apartment last week are the adoptiv...