The Public Eye: by Ross Johnson. Now that actor Robert Downey Jr. has left, at least for a bit, the California penal system, w...

By Allan D. Bogutz. In increasing numbers, lawyers are seeing clients who have residence in more than one country. Faster trav...

Labor and employment attorney Catherine Conway, formerly a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, has joined the Los Angele...

By Stephen Zager. In a world that doesn't accept you based on circumstances outside your control, should you fight the law by ...

By Alexander S. Polsky. The expense and time of litigating construction defect matters has risen dramatically in recent years,...

Many federal district courts make available to attorneys analog and digital ELMO, real-time court reporting and videoconferenc...

If one person gets sexually excited by being spanked (with a hand, spatula, wet noodle, whatever) and another person gets exci...

By Ruchi Gupta. Despite having once taken a vow never to follow his father into the legal profession, Stephen M. Tigerman has ...

By James E. Chodzko. Mediating construction cases presents some unique challenges, the most important of which is resolving di...

A federal judge has thrown out a civil rights lawsuit filed by a San Francisco police officer who claimed he was subjected to ...

By James J. Moneer. Even if a plaintiff successfully opposed a SLAPP motion, the plaintiff can expect a two-year delay in the ...

Though the case already settled, a state appellate court granted a motion Wednesday to a divorce's former attorneys, who wante...

The bail of Los Angeles police Officer Nino Floyd Durden, charged in the attempted murder of an unarmed gang member, will rema...

When the city of Los Angeles contemplated holding its first national political convention in four decades, boosters touted its...

A bevy of First Amendment heavyweights gathered Thursday to dissect a controversial recent ruling holding the publisher of a g...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, fighting to keep his job in the face of a strong challenge by Deputy Distri...

Former City Councilman Michael Woo can't run for his old seat again, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Thursday. The la...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge appeared sympathetic Thursday to a request that he expand existing protection against federal ...

Mediation fosters an exchange of information in a frank and candid environment, allowing the parties to quickly and economical...

By Michael K. Brown and Peter J. Kennedy. California Supreme Court Provides Guidance on Unfair-Competition Law 'Kraus' and 'Co...

By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. Justice Wendell Ravenswood, a close friend and associate of the Honorable Learned Foote - the schola...

By Michael E. Wine. We are all familiar with the old saying that a lawyer who represents himself or herself has a fool for a c...

By Peg Healy. A few days before our annual midsummer Cub Scout den planning meeting, I get messages from two of the five boys'...

SAN FRANCISCO - The abrupt arrest of a Russian emigre in a federal court hallway immediately following his acquittal on charge...

By Scott A. Sommer. In Citizens for Covenant Compliance v. Anderson, 12 Cal.App.4th 345 (1995), the court addressed the...

By Judith C. Chirlin. As a member of this community, as a judge and as a teacher, I am distressed by the response of many to t...

By Michael Paul Thomas and Mitchell L. Leverett. Inherent Risk Recent Sports-Injury Decisions Deal With Duty Issue As the assu...

In a rare trial over a false advertising claim, a San Francisco judge has found that the makers of an over-the-counter pain me...

SAN FRANCISCO - After serving 21 years on the 1st District Court of Appeal, Justice Marcel Poche has announced he will retire ...

Jonathan Punongbayan and his pal, Bill Choi, wanted to get as close as they could to the stars in UCLA's December 1998 celebri...