In the coming years, intellectual property rights are likely to spark increasingly vigorous debate as their potential value co...
A. Barry Cappello won a $54.2 million verdict for his client for breach of contract. Marc A. Karlin won a case that pitted the...
Californians have long grappled with the questions raised by ballot initiatives, which have become a routine part of political...
Myer J. Sankary embodies an unlikely combination: corporate business experience and cross-cultural sensitivity. His breadth of...
Courts continue in their role of bolstering the integrity of the arbitration process while giving arbitrators power to determi...
LOS ANGELES - Whether to tighten the leash on the Los Angeles Police Department's canines prompted debate Tuesday between the ...
Government
ACLU Files First Amendment Suit Against Health Department
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The ACLU of San Diego and Imperial counties is suing the local Department of Heath and Human Services, alleging th...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In a ruling that could affect hundreds of thousands of commuters on Interstate 91, a San Bernardino County ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Professor Accuses State Bar of Unlawful Election Procedures
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - State Bar officials and a chronic bar critic are scheduled to meet this morning over what the critic charges are...
SAN FRANCISCO - Graham & James has consented to the involuntary bankruptcy proceedings initiated last month by three of th...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County sex crimes prosecutor pleaded not guilty to felony charges Tuesday for allegedly beating his estr...
SAN DIEGO - The Federal Bar Association will sponsor a dinner Jan. 31 honoring six senior judges of the U.S. District Court in...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Israeli media baron won reconsideration Tuesday of his child custody claim based on a broad new interpretat...
WASHINGTON - Handing another important victory to the states, the Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled Tuesday that the...
SAN FRANCISCO - It was another 12-hour day at Bank of America for Teveia Barnes, an associate general counsel, when she receiv...
WASHINGTON - When President Clinton used his recess appointment power last month to install Roger Gregory on the 4th U.S. Circ...
Among actions announced Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2001 by the justices were:
LOS ANGELES - Richard M. Brown, the former president and chief executive officer of the Anaheim Angels baseball team, has join...
SAN JOSE - The defendants in the Avant criminal trade-secrets theft case have lost their third attempt to disqualify the Santa...
SAN FRANCISCO - In an unprecedented twist in death penalty challenges, San Francisco's top prosecutor hopes to defeat a reques...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency has taken "corrective action" against a Los Angeles judge who had a three...
SAN FRANCISOCO - John Lynn Smith, a former political editor and writer for the Oakland Tribune and Sacramento Bee, is the new ...
LOS ANGELES - Kenneth White has joined Los Angeles' Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker's white-collar practice group as a s...
By eliminating certain aspects of need, the court continues to chip away at considerations upon which an award of spousal supp...
SAN FRANCISCO - The meaning of "shall" is more than a linguistic quibble to convict Robert Tindall, who's currently serving 25...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney has told the Los Angeles Board of Education to stop any action it has taken si...
The California Law Revision Commission should be commended for beginning its study of the law governing residential common int...
LOS ANGELES - Joseph E. Hall, retired Los Angeles workers' compensation and personal injury attorney whose state Supreme Court...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judith Mayer O'Brien, the first female partner at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, announced ...
LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles immigration service agent was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison for turning o...